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 ...

Whenever I mention cultivating elms in Florida, someone brings up Dutch elm disease. Luckily, that fatal fungal malady — thought to have originated in Asia before spreading to Europe and North America ...

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 ...