Cleveland.com

Will beech trees go the way of the ash and the American elm? Holden Arboretum, others hope to prevent decimation of another native tree

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 ...
WESA

'Everything becomes a little bit less stable': native Pennsylvania trees battle two diseases

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 ...
Yahoo

The threat facing American beech trees | Gardener State

One of my favorite trees is the iconic American Beech (Fagus grandifolia). I love its smooth, light bluish gray bark — the silvery green leaf in spring that gradually changes to a dark green in summer ...
The Vindicator

The Buckeye state sees its beech trees under attack

They were here 40 years ago when I moved in. Only when the stately, smooth gray barked giants on my wooded lot annually dropped their beech nuts, protected in their soft but spiny shells, did I really ...
WGRZ

2 The Outdoors: Damage to New York's trees starting to take its toll

SOUTH WALES, N.Y. — Beech Leaf Disease was first discovered in Ohio in 2012. It spread quickly throughout the Northeast, arriving in WNY in Chautauqua County in 2018, and Erie County in 2019. It ...
Yahoo

Foresters: Spread of beech tree leaf disease 'concerning'

Jun. 12—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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Beech disease leaves a hole in Michigan’s northern forests

seney national wildlife refuge, mich. -- Tracy Casselman runs a hand over the smooth, gray bark of an American beech, noting the scratch marks left by black bears that have clambered up the tree to ...
The New York Times

What Our Beech Tree Teaches Us About the Possibility of the Future

Ms. Rush is the author of the book “The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth.” A few falls ago, a friend forwarded us a real estate listing. Though we were not really in the ...
13wham

DEC tracking new threat to beech trees

Rochester, N.Y. — A disease that is killing beech trees, is spreading across the state and the first cases, have now been detected in some local counties, including Monroe County. The department of ...
Newsday

Beech trees at historic Planting Fields estate under attack by diseases, national report says

The beech trees that grace Oyster Bay’s Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park are at risk due to two life-threatening diseases — including one that’s proved “startling” and very difficult to ...
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“I Created A Forest For Free” – A Gardening Writer Shares How She Planted 250 Trees Without Buying A Single One

Did you ever see a clearcut mountainside and dream of waving a magic wand and bringing the trees back? Magic wands are in short supply, but with a little patience, you can enlist the help of Mother ...