It’s a sunny September day in Castine, Maine, and I’m standing in a stranger’s yard debating how best to hug a tree. Not just any tree, but an American elm, a fully mature Ulmus americana. I want to ...

Mike Javidi put his hand on a the rough, damp bark of the massive cut of a tree trunk in front of him. It was at least four feet in diameter and came from the mid-section of an historic elm tree cut ...

From her second-story bedroom window, Judy Steer used to wake up to an elm tree in the morning and go to sleep with it at night. She watched the moonlight shimmer through its branches in the darkness, ...

Elm-lined streets were once ubiquitous in America. The trees’ success throwing beautiful, shady canopies over urban environments made them one of the most popular to plant in the country. Then a ...

I used to be the person who stood at the window, looked at the yard and thought only how pretty it was. My husband took care of the lawn maintenance — partly because he enjoyed it, and partly because ...