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June 11, 2025
Celebrating Forest Stewardship at the 4th Annual Working Woods Field Day
By Annie Weight, Forestry Outreach Fellow
On Saturday, June 7th, nearly a hundred forest lovers from across our region – from Franklin County, OH to Erie County, PA – gathered for the fourth annual Working Woods... more
April 29, 2025
New Study Confirms Beech Leaf Disease Threatens European Beech Trees, Too
KIRTLAND, OHIO — A new study from Holden Forests & Gardens and a team at USDA Agricultural Research Service confirms that beech leaf disease—a fast-spreading disease already devastating American beech... more
April 28, 2025
A New Way to Detect Beech Leaf Disease: Rainwater Running Down Tree Trunks
KIRTLAND, OHIO — How do you detect a pathogen that lives way, way up in a tree’s canopy? A novel method for detecting beech leaf disease from the ground—using rainwater... more
April 25, 2025
Good News for Forests: Invasive Shrub Removal Gets Easier After Two Years of Work
By Anna Funk, PhD, Science Communications Specialist
KIRTLAND, OHIO — A new study from researchers at the Holden Arboretum offers encouraging news for forest managers battling non-native shrubs: the effort needed to control these invaders drops dramatically... more
April 23, 2025
Beech Leaf Disease-Causing Nematode More Widespread Than Visible Symptoms Suggest, New Study Finds
By Anna Funk, PhD, Science Communications Specialist
KIRTLAND, OHIO — Researchers at Holden Forests & Gardens have confirmed that the nematode responsible for beech leaf disease (BLD), Litylenchus crenatae ssp. mccannii, is present in forest stands across... more
March 24, 2025
30% of Beech Trees Killed by Beech Leaf Disease, New Study Shows
By Anna Funk, PhD, Science Communications Specialist
Long-term data reveal 30% mortality and alarming growth slowdown in the native beech trees in northeastern Ohio, near the epicenter of beech leaf disease. KIRTLAND, OH — A decade after... more
November 8, 2024
Holden researchers put forest management strategies to the test. Here’s what they found
By Anna Funk, Science Communication Specialist
Private landowners play a critical role in preserving Ohio’s natural heritage where a majority of the state’s eight million acres of forest are privately owned. To manage these forests, land... more
August 6, 2024
Happy birthday, Holden Seed Bank!
By Anna Funk, PhD, Science Communications Specialist
The Holden Seed Bank for regional restoration at the Holden Arboretum has just wrapped up its first year. We’re celebrating! We hope you’ll join us for “A Celebration of Seeds”... more
July 3, 2024
The Necessity of Scrub-Shrub and Young Forests
By Jessica Miller Mecaskey, Consulting Forester
Thick, tangled foliage. Stems teeming in the order of thousands per square meter. A seeming chaos of new growth. To a human, these places are an unnavigable mess of saplings... more
