Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a recent walk through a beech forest, I noticed a large number of small, unobtrusive fall wildflowers - beechdrops. These are ...

Beech leaf disease, caused by a type of microscopic worm, has spread rapidly across the eastern U.S. and parts of Canada since first detected in Ohio in 2012. The disease interferes with chlorophyll ...

That's the way Meredith Cochran describes the young stand of beech trees that is dying on the upper reaches of land she owns in Hancock behind her house. Three years ago, Cochran first noticed the ...

A new disease impacting 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 and ...

Even if you don’t recognize the American beech by name, you’ve surely seen the tree: it has distinctive, smooth, gray bark, often carved with people’s initials. In fact, beeches are the most common ...

Walk through a hardwood forest in southern New Hampshire this year, and you may notice something unusual. Instead of their usual lush green canopy, some American beech trees look a bit weary — their ...

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 ...

On a recent walk through a beech forest, I noticed a large number of small, unobtrusive fall wildflowers - beechdrops. These are one of my favorite wildflowers, primarily because (spoiler alert) they ...