Beech bark disease slipped into North America in 1890, courtesy of ornamental trees shipped from Europe to Nova Scotia. The disease was discovered in Michigan in 2000.

Sean O'Brien, from the UNH Cooperative Extension, takes a look at how beech leaf disease spreads and the signs to help you identify if one of your trees is infected.

It’s time to appreciate the iconic American beech tree; it comprises nearly 40% of our northern forests, and the species ...

LANSING - In the dead cold of the Upper Peninsula winter, Robert Heyd leaves his snowmobile and approaches an enormous American beech armed with a slingshot, rope and a saw. Supported by his ...

With beech bark disease — caused by a tiny insect called a scale that burrows into trees and then makes them susceptible to a fungal infection — adult trees are weakened internally, ...

American beech trees do suffer from beech bark disease; a fungal disease that can lead to crater-like scars on the bark. This occurs when the feeding site of an insect, the woolly beech scale ...

Beech leaf disease was first found in the U.S. in Ohio in 2012 and has spread to over a dozen states. ... For almost a century, the trees have suffered from beech bark disease, ...

Beech bark disease has afflicted the trees for about 100 years. Kat Bolus / WVIA News. Pat McElhenny, Pennsylvania Stewardship Manager at The Nature Conservancy (TNC), ...

The latest efforts to combat beech bark disease are underway at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Wed, 07 Aug 2024 18:44:25 GMT (1723056265702) Story Infinite Scroll ...

TRAVERSE CITY — Snow-covered trees are the stuff of winter wonderland lore, but a white waxy residue on beech tree bark is the sign of what’s becoming a tragic story.

Beech trees have been experienced a little bit of some troubles that there is a disease called beech bark disease that attacks the beech trees.