These trees, and the world they held up, came crashing down when Dutch elm disease caused what is arguably the worst change to the UK's countryside in living memory. The fungal disease carried by ...

Once the hallmark of a rural idyll, our English elms were almost eradicated by the devastating fungal infection of Dutch Elm ...

The Clarendon Hills Lions Club’s annual Christmas tree sale has been an annual tradition since the first one in 1965.

Trees are the poems the Earth writes upon the sky.” In Botetourt County, one particular tree stands closer to the sky than ...

It is also hoped to restore ‘majestic’ English elms to the land destroyed by disease by planting 400 new disease-resistant ...

Another event has been held as part of an ongoing project to raise awareness of endangered wych elm trees in Assynt. Entitled ...

including the infamous Dutch elm disease which has devastated elm populations. Moreover, the act of pruning trees is not ...

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 ...

Orange spray paint signifies death for some stately elm trees on the University campus this summer. The cause is Dutch elm disease, an ailment with a notorious history in the Twin Cities. In 1977, ...

More than 20 million trees died during the 1960s and 1970s from Dutch elm disease. In the aftermath, the elm was largely forgotten, except among a handful of enthusiasts who have been breeding ...

Aug 26, 2021 Aug 26, 2021 Updated Jun 6, 2022 For decades, the city's forestry workers battled Dutch elm disease with projects to spraying healthy trees and removing dead or diseased trees.