As the Minnesota State Fair grounds begin to bustle with activity, fair officials and University tree pathologists are trying to determine why half of the elm trees on the grounds are infected with ...

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 ...

At the top of a stairway near the base of Queen Anne hill, an old, once-glorious English elm lives out its last days. Its leaves are brown, its branches droopy. The tree's vascular system, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FARGO - Warm weather has settled in the Fargo-Moorhead area, which means some trees are showing signs of Dutch elm disease, an ailment that dehydrates them. A tree on 19th Avenue in north Fargo, N.D.

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 ...

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 the old American elms along 17th Avenue ...

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 ...