The tree I’m showing you here is a large American beech. It has been allowed to remain in place by more than one landowner for about 80 years. Beech trees are slow-growing trees with tightly ...

The tiny green-and-gold invasive species can take down a mature American beech tree in just a few years. A team of entomologists from Acadia University and Natural Resources Canada studied ways to ...

Brianna Shepherd, research specialist at Holden Forests & Gardens, measures the diameter of an American beech tree as part of a long-term study on the impacts of beech leaf disease. First observed ...

Unfortunately, our native beech tree, American beech doesn’t have as happy a story and role. As the only native beech tree in North America, the once mighty beech tree played a very important ...

Brianna Shepherd, research specialist at Holden Forests & Gardens, measures the diameter of an American beech tree as part of a long-term study on the impacts of beech leaf disease. First observed ...

Of 263 American beech trees tracked at the Cuyahoga County research site, 30% have died since BLD was first observed in the area in 2014, with the most severe losses occurring in recent years.