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 ...

WILDWOOD STATE PARK, N.Y. — Matt Borden, a plant pathologist, had walked less than 50 yards into the forest when he froze in place and looked skyward. He was standing in a thicket of beech trees in ...

Pat McElhenny, Pennsylvania Stewardship Manager at the Nature Conservancy, explains one of two diseases impacting beech trees. Beech trees are facing extinction. "When you say northern hardwood, that ...

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 ...

Philadelphia’s champion tree, The Great Beech, measured above 100 feet tall, making it the tallest of its kind in the United States. It’s slowly dying. The Great Beech once had five boundless trunks — ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A new threat to trees in the mid-Atlantic region could be much worse than the spotted lanternflies. Beech trees are very prevalent around Philadelphia and they're under attack ...

A tiny worm is attacking beech trees across Massachusetts, and arborists say they're worried the long-term impact could devastate a species that's critical to the state's forests. The worm causes ...

ASHLAND — Marilyn Matarese was disappointed when she learned that a nearly 200-year-old tree in front of the Matarese Funeral Home and Cremation Service Inc., at the corner of Main and Union streets, ...

Sep. 28—GROTON — Noank resident Christopher Andrews has looked out at two copper beech trees at Spicer Park from his home for the past 50 years. He called copper beech trees the "queen of the forest" ...

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