This week on the Local Food Report, grieving the beech trees of Provincetown’s beech forest—and the nuts they’ve long ...

Our guide to mast years - when there are surplus of seeds like acorns on the ground - which typically happen every five to ...

This leaf disease has been firmly established in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut and has spread north into New ...

But if you’ve noticed far more acorns on your forest floor than you’re used to, there may be a different cause – it seems ...

They were here 40 years ago when I moved in. Only when the stately, smooth gray barked giants on my wooded lot annually dropped their beech nuts, protected in their soft but spiny shells, did I really ...

The American beech (Fagus grandifolia) is a medium to tall tree native to North America. A member of the Fagaceae family, this tree is closely related to other commonly known trees such as all species ...

Jun. 12—Pennsylvania naturalists are keeping an eye on a disease that has been killing beech trees in the eastern U.S. for more than a decade, but has begun spreading more rapidly in the past three ...

Pat McElhenny, Pennsylvania Stewardship Manager at the Nature Conservancy, explains one of two diseases impacting beech trees. Beech trees are facing extinction. "When you say northern hardwood, that ...

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 ...

The ground is already littered with acorns and beech nuts, notes Florence Allen, thanks to a phenomenon called mast years, or mast seeding.

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 ...