A close call, but no injuries reported when a Ford pickup truck hit a tree that had fallen across the road, west of Jasper on ...

Trees cannot speak for themselves. There are times when humanity must speak for them. Our beloved beech trees are in peril. I have already written too many eulogies this year so I am hoping Mother ...

People have been mourning the loss of a felled beech tree which had stood in a park for centuries. On 20 May emergency work was carried out on the tree at Rushden Hall Park in Northamptonshire, but it ...

In the early part of the 20th century, the American chestnut was ravaged by an invasive fungus that arrived from Asia. That fungus made the American chestnut functionally extinct, and although some ...

Beech leaf disease is spreading in Vermont, threatening the state's beech trees. The disease, first detected in Ohio about a decade ago, has now been confirmed in five Vermont counties, according to a ...

GREEN. WE ARE AT SANBORN MILLS FARM IN LOUDON. I’M JOINED BY SEAN O’BRIEN WITH UNH COOPERATIVE EXTENSION. SEAN, WE’RE HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE BEECH TREE TODAY. VERY COMMON SPECIES HERE IN NEW ENGLAND.

Do you have a street in your town named Beech Street or maybe a Beech Hill? You probably don’t give it another thought, but the American beech tree is really special – and they’re now under threat. So ...

The Maine Forest Service has reported the first deaths of beech trees caused by beech leaf disease. The department discovered those dead trees earlier this month in Knox County and Waldo County. The ...

Beech trees, one of the most abundant and crucial hardwood trees in New Hampshire, are getting pummeled by beech leaf disease this season. “The trees actually look quite terrible,” said Jeff Garnas, ...

Pennsylvania naturalists are keeping an eye on a disease that has been killing beech trees in the eastern U.S. for more than a decade, but has begun spreading more rapidly in the past three years.