A section of Stebbins Gulch and Bole Woods at Holden Arboretum were recently added to the national Old-Growth Forest Network.

Invasives have largely wiped out the American chestnut and elm, caused “hell” with the beech, and are now wreaking havoc on ...

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

Rangers at Prince William Forest Park are raising the alarm about Beech Leaf Disease (BLD), which is threatening one of the ...

The American beech (Fagus grandifolia) is a medium to tall tree native to North America. A member of the Fagaceae family, this tree is closely related to other commonly known trees such as all species ...

Their surfaces are smooth and paper-like. In North America, all beech trees have green leaves. The American beech (Fagus grandifolia) is found in the eastern United States and in southeast Canada.

Use leaves, bark, fruit, and other tree characteristics to identify this tree The American beech (Fagus grandifolia) is the only species of beech tree native to North America. Before the glacial ...

The trees she wasn’t looking for were everywhere: lumbering beeches in the conspicuous process of succumbing to beech bark disease. The deadly fungal infection often reveals itself through fluffy, ...

She said the disease has spread quickly throughout Connecticut forests and has affected many of the American beech trees there. It also affects the copper beech tree, a European beech tree ...

Marra is looking for Litylenchus crenatae mccannii, a microscopic roundworm, called a nematode, that preys on beech trees. American beech are a widely beloved species that populate forests across ...