Ms. Rush is the author of the book “The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth.” A few falls ago, a friend forwarded us a real estate listing. Though we were not really in the ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The American beech (Fagus grandifolia) is the only species of beech tree ...

Recently, my daughter Kathy received an e-mail from her college friend Patti and she could hardly wait to share it with me. Patti's e-mail had to do with the story of the two copper beech trees that ...

Beech drops among fallen beech leaves at Mount Loretto. (Clay Wollney) The answer is, nothing, really. In fact, the opposite is true. Beech drops are parasitic plants -- epifagus virginiana -- that ...

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 years.

“It’s a statement tree,” says Rick Finneran, manager of facilities at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum, referring to the Copper Beech tree on the northwest corner of the property at 396 ...