A research study getting underway in Oakland Forest, an old-growth beech forest in Portsmouth, could shed light on treatments ...

less conspicuous tree called Carpinus caroliniana. Also known as American hornbeam, blue beech, musclewood, ironwood and water beech, it is one that is often overlooked, but it is an interesting ...

TANNERSVILLE — Marc Wolf steps off a trail at the Mountaintop Arboretum to examine a beech tree with mottled, bumpy bark. “This is pretty typical of beech bark disease,” he said.

Unfortunately, our native beech tree, American beech doesn’t have as ... much like the trait for blue eyes can be passed down in humans. So, any beech arising from root sprouts of a resistant ...

Nor had we heard of beech leaf disease ... the chipmunks and blue jays. I’m almost envious of the tree — the way its reproduction doesn’t, like ours, seem to trip the wire we’ve tied ...

Year in, year out, for centuries, the state’s beech trees have fed the animals of the wild world — squirrels, turkey, blue jays, woodpeckers, deer, and black bear. Its genus name “Fagus ...

In total, about 600 trees and shrubs — blue beech, swamp birch, balsam fir and two species of oak among them — were planted in an area about the size of a tennis court. That works out to three ...

Get ready for the 2025 Big Tree Contest in Fulton County! Find out how to nominate the biggest healthy Beech tree on private ...