The marker was placed under an enormous elm tree by the Young Republican League in 1936, in what, at one time, was the garden of Vivus W. Smith, who owned an impressive homestead on West Onondaga ...

This 1855 photo of Park Square shows the "Old Elm" towering over a few dozen trees. The tree, which was designated in 1752 to be the center of the developing community of Pittsfield, was 128 feet tall ...

Soon the tree is no longer able to carry nutrients or water to its outer branches. The elm is effectively strangled. By the 1960s, the blight had spread across the country.

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 ...

WAUWATOSA, Wis. (CBS 58) – On the east side of Wauwatosa sat a piece of history that was hard to miss.A towering American elm tree made Matt Retzer and Sara Werner's home on North 64th street a ...

Q: I have a Cathedral elm and a maple that both have roots wrapping around the trunk where they go into the ground. Both were planted by a professional. How bad is this, and what happens if I cut ...

Q: My neighbor has a bare spot in her yard to the north of a large elm tree. I have watched it this summer and noticed that I have the same thing forming near my elm tree. She also is now getting ...

Dutch elm disease ravaged the urban canopy in the city in the 1970s but disappeared in 2011. But just last month, the aggressive tree killer was discovered again in the city.