American beech trees, present throughout Rhode Island’s forests and along the East Coast, are facing an existential threat. Beech leaf disease will likely cause a “huge loss” to forests in Rhode ...

The first three weeks of February this year gave us some very cold nighttime temperatures that bottomed out near zero degrees Fahrenheit several nights. The tree I’m showing you here is a large ...

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