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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Darkened, thickened bands between leaf veins—seen here on an American beech leaf—are characteristic symptoms of beech leaf disease (BLD). First detected in northeastern Ohio in 2012, BLD has ...