ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A disease spreading among beech trees is getting worse in Maryland, the state Department of Agriculture said. Beech leaf disease, which is caused by a microscopic roundworm nematode ...

American beeches have been suffering recently from a disease widespread in both Connecticut landscapes and forests.

Beech leaf disease is spreading in Vermont, threatening the state's beech trees. The disease, first detected in Ohio about a decade ago, has now been confirmed in five Vermont counties, according to a ...

Beech leaf disease, caused by a nematode, is spreading through Washington County and Maryland, threatening beech tree populations. Beech trees play a vital role in forest ecosystems, contributing to ...

A new study from Holden Forests & Gardens and a team at USDA Agricultural Research Service confirms that beech leaf disease—a fast-spreading disease already devastating American beech across eastern ...

Beech leaf disease is out there once again, decimating beech trees in Massachusetts, as it has in the past. It's a relatively new tree disease, which first appeared in 2012 in Ohio, and has since ...

Beech leaf disease will be devastating — of that there’s no doubt. But Gore is already looking beyond it. New York employs some of the finest urban foresters in the country, masters in a field that ...

IT’S LEAVING A GIANT PROBLEM IN ITS WAKE. BEECH TREES CAN BE FOUND ALL ACROSS BALTIMORE AND THE STATE, BUT THERE’S SOMETHING OUT THERE MAKING THEM SICK. AND YOU CAN TELL BY THE LEAVES. A BIG PROBLEM ...

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 ...