This week on the Local Food Report, grieving the beech trees of Provincetown’s beech forest—and the nuts they’ve long ...

Unlike many other trees, beech trees can survive in lower light strata caused by oaks, tulip poplars and other sun seekers.

Beech Leaf Disease is rapidly killing trees across New England, posing a significant threat to Massachusetts forests. "Usually this time of year (these trees) would be full of leaves (and) we wouldn't ...

The western White Mountains have long been my personal favorite: less crowded, scenic villages and quieter hiking trails to explore.

This leaf disease has been firmly established in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut and has spread north into New ...

Two of my favorite spring plants, almost entirely based upon their progression from bud to leaf, are beech trees and false hellebore (a common wetland plant). I was thinking about why they are so ...

Beech leaf disease, a slow but steady killer of large numbers of beeches, has spread from Ohio, where it was first identified ...

Local landowners are encouraged to check their beech trees for signs of invasive beech leaf disease after the disease was found in St. Clair County earlier this year. The disease causes characteristic ...

A new tree disease has spread in forests in Massachusetts, joining invasive pests and climate change as top priorities for foresters to address. The state has found beech leaf disease in more than 90 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A new disease impacting beech trees has spread across the state, and foresters in the northeast ...

But there’s hope, and that’s where Holden Arboretum is playing an important role, whether it’s researching spread of the disease, experimenting with insecticides, or trying to clone trees that are ...

A confounding new disease is killing beech trees in Ohio and elsewhere, and plant scientists are sounding an alarm while looking for an explanation. Researchers and naturalists in northeastern Ohio ...