and an emerging threat called Beech Leaf Disease (which is rapidly spreading on American beech trees throughout the eastern US. Our project has produced an American chestnuts variety with enhanced ...

Beech trees provide food for animals, timber for wood products, and sustenance for beech drop plants, but they are under ...

A mysterious disease that is killing beech trees is spreading across parts of the United States. Scientists say the disease, known as Beech Leaf Disease, has been recorded in Ohio and Pennsylvania ...

Beech leaf disease is thought to be caused by an invasive worm called a nematode that attacks the tree’s buds and damages so many leaves it’s hard for the tree to photosynthesize. The disease ...

These bears will climb up the trees and create nest-like twig formations in the ... Houston D, O’Brien J. 1983 Feb. Beech Bark Disease [Internet]. 75. Hamden (CT): U.S. Department of Agriculture ...