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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Above: An elm-lined street in St. Paul, MN, before most of the trees were killed by Dutch Elm Disease. Although the American elm persists in forests and pockets of cities and towns, Dutch Elm Disease ...

There is a substance oozing from the trunk of my elm tree. What is this and what should I do to solve this problem? Your tree appears to have slime flux, which is a very common bacterial disease that ...

An elm tree that served as backdrop for the promise of peace and survived a war-time wood shortage continues to grow in significance – even though it fell in a storm 200 years ago. Over a four-day ...

Students squinting along a sunny stretch of sidewalk outside the Roanoke College library find a moment of cool refuge beneath the leafy shade of an old, but steady-growing champion. A Dutch elm tree ...

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, ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A 200-year-old American elm tree stood condemned, finally succumbing, it seemed, to the disease that has killed off hundreds of thousands of other elms in Minnesota. The tree, one of the ...

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 ...