Disease Killing Beech Trees in Smokies
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Scientists say a nonnative insect is to blame for a disease that's killing beech trees in the higher elevations of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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BATON ROUGE, La. The first US cases of soybean rust have turned up at two research sites in Louisiana. The fungus creates reddish-brown blotches on leaves.
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By Charles Sheehan, Chicago Tribune  Jan. 31--Chicago-area officials say the invasion of the emerald ash borer is threatening to chew up suburban forestry budgets, as well as trees.
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By TESS NACELEWICZ Staff Writer  Visitors to Mackworth Island in Falmouth often admire the orange- red berries of the bittersweet plant, and sometimes take them home to use in Christmas wreaths.  But what many don't know is that those berries are the fruit of a killer vine.
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By Tom Venesky, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader Sep. 25--The presence of a diminutive insect in the state has forestry officials on high alert.
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By SAM HITT AND SARAH WILLIAMS  The Santa Fe Fire Department plans to clear vegetation from nearly 100 acres of public open space to reduce hazardous fuels near the Dale Ball trails.   The Forest Service wants to extend clearing from Hyde Park all the way to the Santa Fe Ski Area.
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By Mike Branom, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Jun. 3--Arizona's forests are sickly, but environmental experts believe they can be brought back to health.   They must be saved, state forester Kirk Rowdabaugh emphasized, because failure would result in an ecological and economic disaster.
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By Van Damme, Els J M Culerrier, Raphael; Barre, Annick; Alvarez, Richard; Et al  A lectin has been identified in black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) bark that shares approximately 50% sequence identity with plant class V chitinases but is essentially devoid of chitinase activity.
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A mysterious disease is killing off U.S. honeybees, threatening to disrupt pollination of a range of crops and costing beekeepers hundreds of thousands of dollars, industry experts said on Monday.
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By The Garden Path, Tim Elkner, Daina Savage  Editor's note: This gardening column is written by Daina Savage, Intelligencer Journal correspondent, and Tim Elkner, Lancaster County Horticulture extension agent.           Hurricane effect. Thank goodness for Ernesto residuals.
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Soybean rust disease was confirmed  on Friday in Georgia, making it the fourth U.S. state to be  infected with the devastating crop fungus in nine days, state  officials said.
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By Jack Brubaker  Some very tasty slop for hogs Not preaching about evolution Glass plate negatives preserved  Five oak trees along North Duke and East Orange streets by the Lancaster County Library and St. James Episcopal Church have no life left in them.
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By SUE LINDSEY  ROANOKE, Va. - With spring approaching, Virginia scientists are planning a more comprehensive attack to find the cause of the mysterious fish kills in the Shenandoah River and its tributaries.
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Logging dead trees after a wildfire and planting new ones can make future fires worse, at least for a decade or two while the young trees create a volatile source of fuel, scientists found in a study that contradicts conventional practices.
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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Dec. 9--More than a million tiny blue birds once sang and nested in the tops of Appalachian forests. Now there may be only 500,000 cerulean warblers left.
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By [Frank Munger]  Because scientists are genetically manipulating plants at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, special controls are required to prevent their spread in the environment.
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By Monte Mitchell, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Mar. 5--BOONE -- Twisted red oaks hunch at the top of Rittle Knob, stunted by the harsh conditions on the wind-swept peak. "That tree, you will not believe me, but it's 150 years old," said Keith Swieter.