A decade after the emergence of beech leaf disease (BLD) in northeast Ohio, a new study by researchers at The Holden ...

Brianna Shepherd, research specialist at Holden Forests & Gardens, measures the diameter of an American beech tree as part of a long-term study on the impacts of beech leaf disease. First observed in ...

The tree I’m showing you here is a large American beech. It has been allowed to remain in place by more than one landowner for about 80 years. Beech trees are slow-growing trees with tightly ...

A decade after beech leaf disease emerged in Ohio, researchers have found that 30% of local American beech trees have died, with surviving trees growing significantly more slowly. The study, based on ...