A new tree disease has spread in forests in Massachusetts, joining invasive pests and climate change as top priorities for foresters to address. The state has found beech leaf disease in more than ...

Beech leaf disease was the first detected in Ohio in 2012. How it got to the state is unclear, as is how it rapidly spread as far north as Maine, as far south as Virginia and to parts of all the ...

In just a decade, this unusual disease has spread from Ohio across the Northeast. Scientists are testing treatments, but answers come slowly. Backlit leaves of an American beech tree show dark bands, ...

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

Several summers of intense drought may have played a role. But another factor was beech leaf disease, a relatively new and mysterious affliction that destroys beeches’ leaves, and with them the ...

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 ...

DETROIT – Beech leaf disease has been found in Michigan, making it the ninth state across the country with confirmed cases of the invasive species. Following its addition to Michigan's ...

After sending a sample to a forest pathologist, they confirmed what he had feared: it was the first-ever sighting of beech leaf disease in the forest. Beech leaf disease is thought to be caused by ...

Colin Griffin knew what he was seeing, and knew it wasn't good. On a guided woody plant walk Sunday in Wayne County's Rouge Park, the Southfield resident and self-described "amateur hobbyist ...

More information: Brianna L. Shepherd et al, Fagus grandifolia growth and mortality a decade after the emergence of Beech leaf disease, Trees, Forests and People (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.tfp.2025.100836 ...