"Saplings were hit especially hard ... In addition to increased mortality, the study found that beech trees in the affected plots grew significantly more slowly after BLD arrived.

Middletown’s Tree Commission and Open Space Committee joined forces and created a pilot program to rehabilitate the canopy of Albro Woods from beech leaf disease. The discovery of the disease in the ...

“Saplings were hit especially hard ... In addition to increased mortality, the study found that beech trees in the affected plots grew significantly more slowly after BLD arrived.