Dr. Andrew Loyd, a plant pathologist for the F.A. Bartlett Tree Expert Company, described beech leaf disease as a ...

The more likely path to success is to breed resistant trees, Burke said, as that has worked to some degree with other species, including the American elm, as well as on beech trees that suffer ...

In just a few decades, the climate in many of the world’s forests will be so changed that many trees will have difficulty surviving. For example, in wide parts of lowland Central Europe, there is a ...

Near the bottom of a shady hillside in Jericho, a lone beech tree stretches high into the canopy, a relic of a bygone forest. Through luck or (hopefully) genetics, this mighty tree has avoided ...

The Maine Forest Service reported the first deaths of beech trees caused by beech leaf disease earlier this month.

A new disease affecting beech trees has spread across the state, and foresters in the northeast believe it could be potentially devastating. Beech leaf disease was first detected in Ohio in 2012 an… ...

A new pathogen has been detected in the Adirondacks. Beech Leaf Disease has the potential to spread rapidly. The Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program held a seminar recently bringing together ...