In the late 1800s, a foreign fungus arrived in North America, leading to the demise of a once-great native tree species that ...

Butternut country is so distinctive that Parker Nichols knows he has arrived even before he sees the first butternut tree. As the proprietor of Vermont WildWoods, a flooring and millwork company in ...

In this edition of ID That Tree, meet a rarely found native tree that is closely related to the black walnut, the butternut. The butternut has been plagued by fungal disease, but can be identified by ...

Douglass Jacobs, the Fred M. van Eck Professor of Forest Biology at Purdue University, with a butternut tree that has been infected with stem canker. Butternut is on the list of at-risk forest tree ...