Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Forester Andy Meier inspects an elm tree on the Mississippi River for possible signs of Dutch elm ...

Without question or doubt, ashes rank as the most common and most abundant trees growing along our neighborhood streets and in our yards and parks. Elms rank much lower in abundance as street trees.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Midland, Mich., has been forced to cut down hundreds of trees and treat ...

Walk through many forests in Indiana today, and you might not notice what is missing until you look up. Ash trees, once a common part of these woodlands, have rapidly disappeared due to the invasive ...

Something is quietly killing the Midwest’s ash trees. The culprit is small enough to fit on a fingernail, brilliant green in ...

I was a boy when Dutch Elm Disease killed most of the stately American elms that shaded our streets. Spongy moth caterpillars stripped the foliage of our oaks, killing many of them. Hemlock woolly ...

There’s a tree killer on the loose in Oregon, and nobody knows how to stop it. An invasive green beetle called the emerald ash borer arrived in the Midwest from Asia, and it’s killed over 100 million ...

Despite the emerald ash borer killing thousands of ash trees in Dane County, urban foresters say the canopy is stronger than ...

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 ...