This week on the Local Food Report, grieving the beech trees of Provincetown’s beech forest—and the nuts they’ve long provided.

On this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces you to American beech. You can identify this shade-tolerant species by its simple leaves with veins running parallel ...

Every species of tree has unique characteristics, from its bark to its leaves, that you can use as clues to identify it—without using the internet. Beyond using this knowledge as a party trick to ...

A new tree disease has spread in forests in Massachusetts, joining invasive pests and climate change as top priorities for foresters to address. The state has found beech leaf disease in more than 90 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Once a month OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Many of our native deciduous trees mature to majestic ...

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. “Beech trees would ...

Beech Leaf Disease, which cuts off photosynthesis and eventually causes trees to die, is rapidly spreading around the northeast.

Beech leaf disease has already made its way to 15 states and into Ontario, with alarming results. By Margaret Roach I am hardly alone among gardeners who have called upon a copper-leaved European ...