TANNERSVILLE — Marc Wolf steps off a trail at the Mountaintop Arboretum to examine a beech tree with mottled, bumpy bark. “This is pretty typical of beech bark disease,” he said. “Beech trees would ...

The tall, slender beech trees with their dark green, dense crowns – the very symbol of the temperate forests in Europe – may have disappear from many landscapes by the turn of the next century. Today, ...

BETHLEHEM TWP., N.J. - New Jersey wants its residents on the lookout for a disease in trees. The state is calling beech leaf disease an emerging forest health threat that's rapidly progressing in the ...

A new long-term study reveals alarming insights into the impact of climate change on European beech (Fagus sylvatica), one of Europe's most widespread and ecologically important tree species. A new ...

In the early part of the 20th century, the American chestnut was ravaged by an invasive fungus that arrived from Asia. That fungus made the American chestnut functionally extinct, and although some ...

With its multiple trunks, canopy draping to the ground and broad base, the weeping beech tree near the Gallaher Mansion at Cranbury Park is hard to miss and has long been an attraction among ...