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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Q: I understand there's been progress in developing Dutch elm disease-resistant American elms that are also relatively fast growing. Do you have any information and varieties you can recommend? - Dan ...

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 ...

The City of Edmonton has confirmed that an elm tree removed in October from the Glengarry neighbourhood has tested positive for Dutch elm disease (DED), the second confirmed case in 2025 and the ...

Dutch elm disease was introduced to the United States in the early 1920s. It quickly decimated our American elms, killing hundreds of thousands of trees. The disease first appeared in Kansas in 1957 ...