Fungus destroying butternut trees in Iowa. Sep. 4, 2011 5:20 pm. CEDAR RAPIDS - Part way down a wooded slope above a tiny, unnamed stream, a bleak tale is playing out nearly without notice.

Butternut trees are dying across the northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada. A fungus is killing the big trees much like Dutch elm disease killed American elms over the last century. And just ...

Thousand cankers disease, a fungus spread by a beetle, can kill walnut and butternut trees by destroying tissue just beneath the bark. (New York State Invasive Species) Syracuse, N.Y. -- A tree ...

Like so many other state landowners, George F. Cloutier of Windham valued his butternut trees. The nuts themselves were delicious, though the brown, gooey substance that oozes from the husks had a … ...

When you hear about endangered species, most of us think about the plights of our furry or feathered friends. Surviving butternut tree. Photo: Richard Webb, Bugwood.org (Reproduced with permission) ...

Butternut trees are native to Canada and can be found in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. ... Emerging tree diseases are on the rise, threatening the planet's largest plants ...