For more than a thousand years in eastern North America, anyone who wanted to build a house or replace a roof, or maybe just needed a few storage bins, a canoe, and a snow shovel, knew where to shop.

The elm trees on my street downtown have been infested the past couple of years with what I think are elm leaf beetles. We can see little striped worms climbing up the bark, and the leaves are chewed ...

The 36 trees planted last week at Boutwells Landing senior living community in Oak Park Heights have a big job: To help revitalize the state’s elm population. The American elm trees, each about 2 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barren, dead American elm trees along Ogden River are seen from a residence about three miles up Ogden Canyon on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. The line of trees used to have full canopies, providing ...

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 elm tree stands on a bit of a rise alongside a creek that once ran red with the blood of British soldiers. It might have been a sapling on that early morning in 1763, when Chief Pontiac prevailed ...