U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Forester Andy Meier inspects an elm tree on the Mississippi River for possible signs of Dutch elm disease, which has wiped out many of the elms in the river's floodplain ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 36 trees planted last week at Boutwells Landing senior living community in Oak Park Heights have a big job: To help revitalize ...

Saskatoon city hall is expecting a big increase in Dutch elm disease cases this year after a record 41 positive diagnoses ...

In early July, Denver’s forestry team discovered that Dutch elm disease – a fungal tree killer that targets American elms – was back after a twelve-year absence from the city. While the team is hoping ...

Deep in Glen Affric stands an ancient witch elm once known as the “Last Ent,” a lone survivor of Dutch elm disease that wiped ...

It's been more than three decades since Dutch elm disease was first spotted in Grand Forks. That first victim was a small tree that grew where the Grand Forks water treatment plant now stands. Since ...

Some of the Bismarck-Mandan area streets are a bit less shady these days, thanks to that scourge of elm trees all over North America: Dutch elm disease. But hey, it could be a lot worse. Bismarck has ...

Seventy-five years ago, Dutch elm disease arrived on these shores from Europe with devastating impact. Moving from the East Coast to the nation's mid-section, the disease since has claimed millions of ...

Prospect Park Alliance arborist Malcolm Gore counted the rings on a tree stump at the top of a hill in Prospect Park. "I got to 90,” he said. Counting tree rings for age isn’t entirely accurate, Gore ...

RENO BOTTOMS - The elm tree that towered over Andy Meier was a survivor. At 37 inches around and about 150 years old, it had so far avoided Dutch elm disease, the fungus that wiped out many of its ...