U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Forester Andy Meier inspects an elm tree on the Mississippi River for possible signs of Dutch elm disease, which has wiped out many of the elms in the river's floodplain ...

Some trees and shrubs have a bad reputation for being susceptible to diseases: lilacs to powdery mildew, junipers to juniper ...

Robin Adair, owner of Arbour Crest Tree Services, said the city has a lot of work to get ahead of dutch elm disease. He said ...

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 ...

Bark beetles moving between trees routinely carry two fungi that are responsible for the Dutch elm tree disease outbreak.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A single tree in Saskatoon has been confirmed as having Dutch elm disease, which has destroyed millions of trees across North ...

Some of the Bismarck-Mandan area streets are a bit less shady these days, thanks to that scourge of elm trees all over North America: Dutch elm disease. But hey, it could be a lot worse. Bismarck has ...

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 ...

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 ...