The Maryland Department of Agriculture announced there are worsening conditions of beech leaf disease in the state.

The beech tree — present in all 88 counties — plays an important role in Ohio's forests, serving as a food source and even a home for a vast array of wildlife. According to the Ohio Department ...

BLD is a significant, frequently fatal disease of beech trees. Younger beech trees succumb to it within two to five years while mature and otherwise healthy beech trees may survive six to 10 years.

Many of Holden Arboretum’s younger beech trees have died since the disease was first reported at the Kirtland-based institution in 2014, while some of the mature trees have started to die as well.

Beech Leaf Disease was first discovered in the U.S. in 2012, when an outbreak was found in Lake County, Ohio. The disease is thought to be connected to a nematode worm that enters trees through ...

Adam Wild, the director of the Uihlein Maple Research Forest in Lake Placid, is out with a report on the economic potential of American Beech trees. The research is supported by the Northern New ...

However, these incredible trees are threatened by beech scale disease, also called beech bark disease (BBD) — a condition that can lead to significant damage or even kill the infected trees.

A new disease impacting beech trees has spread across the state, and foresters in the northeast believe it could be potentially devastating. Beech leaf disease was first detected in Ohio in 2012 ...

A new disease affecting beech trees has spread across the state, and foresters in the northeast believe it could be potentially devastating.Beech leaf disease was first detected in Ohio in 2012 ...

UNIVERSITY IN A GARDEN Beech trees at Mizzou provide shade, spot to relax if you can't get to a beach this summer Janice Wiese-Fales Jul 14, 2025 ...

Beech syrup samples produced for the NNYADP-funded research evaluating the economic feasibility of producing syrup from American beech trees; on the left, syrup made using reverse osmosis before ...