One of my favorite trees is the iconic American Beech (Fagus grandifolia). I love its smooth, light bluish gray bark — the silvery green leaf in spring that gradually changes to a dark green in summer ...
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 ...
Ms. Rush is the author of the book “The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth.” A few falls ago, a friend forwarded us a real estate listing. Though we were not really in the ...
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY. THIS TREE IS PROBABLY OVER 100 YEARS OLD. HOWEVER OLD. THIS BEECH TREE IS 2023 WILL BE ITS FINAL YEAR. THE TREE STANDS OUT, NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF ITS AGE, BUT ALSO THE FACT ...
It may be the height of maple syrup season in the Northeast, but one researcher in northern New York has turned his focus to another type of sap. Adam Wild, the director of the Uihlein Maple Research ...
Each summer, like clockwork, millions of beech trees throughout Europe sync up, tuning their reproductive physiology to one another. Within a matter of days, the trees produce all the seeds they’ll ...
Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...
But there’s hope, and that’s where Holden Arboretum is playing an important role, whether it’s researching spread of the disease, experimenting with insecticides, or trying to clone trees that are ...
Near the bottom of a shady hillside in Jericho, a lone beech tree stretches high into the canopy, a relic of a bygone forest. Through luck or (hopefully) genetics, this mighty tree has avoided ...