On a recent walk through a beech forest, I noticed a large number of small, unobtrusive fall wildflowers - beechdrops. These are one of my favorite wildflowers, primarily because (spoiler alert) they ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

Beech leaf disease, caused by a type of microscopic worm, has spread rapidly across the eastern U.S. and parts of Canada since first detected in Ohio in 2012. The disease interferes with chlorophyll ...

Teatown Lake Reservation has been awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant to advance two innovative forest restoration research projects.    The funding provided by a private foundation will support ...

Primeval beech forests in the Carpathian Mountains have been inscribed on the UN's World Heritage List, underlining the global importance of this rare forest habitat — the most extensive in Europe.