This shade tree makes a lovely addition to the yard. Unfortunately, it can come with a host of problems like pests, disease, ...

Grand Forks still loses more than 100 trees a year to Dutch elm disease, even as its threat has decreased in recent decades. Dutch elm was first found in Grand Forks in 1979 and reached its height in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Forester Andy Meier inspects an elm tree on the Mississippi River for possible signs of Dutch elm ...

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 ...

FAIRFIELD — When Connie and John Haruch decided to build their home on West Knoll Court more than 36 years ago, the builder planned to cut down several trees, including a sizeable elm tree that would ...

On the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota, rows of tiny elm trees sprout in a test field run by University researchers. These elms are a series of new trees cloned by the University that ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Elm trees in the Twin Cities could be in for their worst year since 2004, when Minneapolis lost 10,000 to Dutch elm disease. So far this year, Minneapolis forestry workers have tagged ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dutch elm disease has been reported back in Denver after more than a decade of its absence. The Denver forestry office discovered the disease last month in ...

Recently, our diagnostic lab at Kansas State University reported a high volume of Dutch elm disease cases in Kansas. The disease has been present in the United States since the 1920s, when it began ...

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 ...

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 ...