Beech leaf disease was the first detected in Ohio in 2012. How it got to the state is unclear, as is how it rapidly spread as far north as Maine, as far south as Virginia and to parts of all the ...

CONCORD TOWNSHIP, Ohio - Hiking a trail of freshly fallen leaves on a perfect fall morning, Lake Metroparks naturalist John Pogacnik approached a grove of towering beech trees atop a ravine ...

But age has caught up to the beech tree. Its branches are bare after its lime-green leaves did not return in spring. Now, despite its deeply rooted presence, the beech tree will be cut down soon.

CONCORD, N.H. — Ian Halm was walking in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in North Woodstock, N.H., last week when he encountered an unwelcome sight: leaves from a beech tree with a few dark ...

Following its addition to Michigan's invasive species watch list last year, beech leaf disease has been found ... the lookout for the disease and take photos if there are any sign of symptoms.

According to the Michigan Departments of Natural Resources and Agriculture and Rural Development, a new invasive disease to Michigan has been discovered in the southeast part of the state.

But Cowles’s research team might change that. Tracing the worms from tiny water droplets, to beech leaves Cowles said his research revealed the invasive organism “can be blown in little ...

Residents who spot a beech tree with signs of the disease are asked to take photos of the infested tree, including affected leaves, and pass those photos and the tree’s location onto the DNR or ...