The North Carolina Forest Service has been receiving reports of scorched-looking elm trees throughout central North Carolina, from Davidson to Johnston counties. But Jim Slye, the service’s Forest ...

ST. PAUL -- Since 1999, the University of Minnesota has been cooperating with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to evaluate and select elms for use in Minnesota. Many new Hybrid and American ...

Dutch elm disease was introduced to the United States in the early 1920s. It quickly decimated our American elms, killing hundreds of thousands of trees. The disease first appeared in Kansas in 1957 ...

After Dutch elm disease arrived on a log shipment from Europe in the 1930s and began systematically wiping out our American elms, many of us marked elms off our lists of trees to consider for ...

A new, invasive insect species has been detected in Ohio for the first time, authorities said. The elm zigzag sawfly was spotted by researchers infesting elm trees in both Franklin and Delaware ...

Majestic elms towered above city sidewalks and filled out the canopy of dense Midwestern forests with their graceful, arching branches — until Dutch elm disease took them down by the millions. Now, ...

Dutch elm disease is the grim reaper of United States’ elm trees. Since the 1930s, it caused wilt and death for native elm species all over the country, spreading from tree to tree through root grafts ...

The American elm (Ulmus americana) was once a common sight on the Upper Mississippi River, but Dutch elm disease, or DED, has killed many trees. DED is an invasive fungal pathogen that is spread by ...

Elm-lined streets were once ubiquitous in America. The trees’ success throwing beautiful, shady canopies over urban environments made them one of the most popular to plant in the country. Then a ...