Invasives have largely wiped out the American chestnut and elm, caused “hell” with the beech, and are now wreaking havoc on ...

A research study getting underway in Oakland Forest, an old-growth beech forest in Portsmouth, could shed light on treatments ...

Though we were not really in the market, we looked. The big orange bungalow was nice, but it was the beech tree that cast a spell. The enormous trunk looked like the leg of an old elephant.

Then, he starts hunting for worms. Marra is looking for Litylenchus crenatae mccannii, a microscopic roundworm, called a nematode, that preys on beech trees. American beech are a widely beloved ...

In the coastal town of Swampscott, Mass., the expansive canopy of a 100-year-old beech tree has presided over picnics and given refuge to shade-seekers for longer than most of the town’s ...

WESTFIELD — For more than two centuries, residents of Westfield looked to the copper beech tree at the corner of Pleasant and Court streets for shade, inspiration and beauty. On Monday ...

But sadly, the stately beech tree that has stood at the corner of Court and Pleasant streets for generations has succumbed to disease and will be removed on Monday. “Forty-three years ago ...