Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russell Norton, horticulturist at the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension wrote In an email to the Cape Cod Times, that BLD was ...

In just a decade, this unusual disease has spread from Ohio across the Northeast. Scientists are testing treatments, but answers come slowly. Backlit leaves of an American beech tree show dark bands, ...

That's the way Meredith Cochran describes the young stand of beech trees that is dying on the upper reaches of land she owns in Hancock behind her house. Three years ago, Cochran first noticed the ...

American beeches (Fagus grandifolia) have been suffering recently from a disease widespread in both Connecticut landscapes and forests, Beech leaf disease (BLD), caused by a foliar nematode, ...

Earthwise Aware president Claire O’Neill points out some beech leaves that have a small amount of beech leaf disease at the Middlesex Fells in Winchester. Credit: Jesse Costa, WBUR This article is ...