It’s a sunny September day in Castine, Maine, and I’m standing in a stranger’s yard debating how best to hug a tree. Not just any tree, but an American elm, a fully mature Ulmus americana. I want to ...

Dutch elm disease has been present in the United States since the 1920s, when it began its rapid spread across elm populations, killing most American elms. Every year the disease continues to spread ...

Pay attention to your elm trees. That's the message from Colorado Springs Forestry Department officials. They want tree owners to be on the lookout for signs of Dutch elm disease which despite the ...

Mike Javidi put his hand on a the rough, damp bark of the massive cut of a tree trunk in front of him. It was at least four feet in diameter and came from the mid-section of an historic elm tree cut ...

From her second-story bedroom window, Judy Steer used to wake up to an elm tree in the morning and go to sleep with it at night. She watched the moonlight shimmer through its branches in the darkness, ...

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 ...

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