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Foresters: Spread of beech tree leaf disease ‘concerning’

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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

Japan Forestry Agency expects good harvest of beech nuts loved by bears this year

The Tohoku Regional Forest Office of Japan's Forestry Agency based in this city has reported that beech trees flowered in ...
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 ...
WTEN

Beech leaf disease: What it is, what to do about it

BOLTON, N.Y. (NEWS10) – A disease threatening one of the Adriondack Park’s most commonly-sighted trees has reared its head. Last week, the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP) reported a ...
Yahoo

The threat facing American beech trees | Gardener State

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of my favorite trees is the iconic American Beech (Fagus grandifolia). I love its smooth, light bluish gray bark — the silvery ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Life and Limbs: ‘End of an era’ as Parkersburg beech tree comes down

Employees of J&M Tree Service work to remove the fallen limbs of a 200-plus-year-old American beech tree Wednesday near an historic home in the 1700 block of 26th Street in Parkersburg. (Photo by Evan ...
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.” See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los ...
MyCentralJersey

The threat facing American beech trees | Gardener State

Its nuts, rich in fat and protein, provide food for much of the forest fauna, along with forest habitat for a wide range of wildlife. Left untreated it is estimated the demise of a beech tree with BLD ...