Researchers in Vermont infected 5,300 of the trees with a lethal dose of Dutch elm disease in hopes that the survivors can ...

Walking down into the floodplain at the Nature Conservancy’s preserve in Benson, Vermont is like walking into a sea of American elm saplings. The trees criss-cross about 30 acres on the valley floor ...

BENSON — Elm trees in New England were nearly wiped out by disease more than 50 years ago, but a small number of the majestic trees survived. Now researchers are asking why and hoping the answer could ...

Dutch elm disease, which isn’t specifically “Dutch”, raged through North America in the 1960s, although the disease was introduced around 1930 by imported logs from Europe. The Asian fungus was ...

A mature surviving American elm tree stands above 5,200 saplings planted in Benson. Walking down into the floodplain at the Nature Conservancy’s preserve in Benson is like walking into a sea of ...