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) ...

If that uncomfortable feeling of loss is something you care to fight, then consider the plight of the butternut tree. This tree, important to man and beast alike, ...

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 ...

That tree, which is featured in the 2010 National Register of Big Trees calendar, was recently dethroned from its butternut national champion status by a tree in Virginia. Though the Galva ...

Butternut trees are native to Canada and can be found in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. But over the last 30 or so years, canker disease has wiped out 80 per cent of them, ...