Using signs in nature to predict winter weather can be a lot of fun and just maybe anywhere from 65-70% accurate. The late Dick Frymire of Irvington, Kentucky, used a Japanese Elm tree, and a ...

The massive elm tree that shaded the corner of East Main Street and Yankee Drive was sick. Like so many others in so many of America's towns in the 1950s, it was stricken with Dutch elm disease.

It was a hard winter for the trees, too. ... Stressed Siberian elm trees, left, next to an American elm, right, at Billings West High recently. Courtesy photo ...

Additionally, in the winter, trees enter their dormant phase. The trees are still alive, ... Dutch elm disease and oak wilt ― to spread while trees are dormant, Passo said.

200 Elm trees donated to City of Moorhead. By Gretchen Hjelmstad. Published: Nov. 7, ... The 200 trees will be cared for at the city maintenance shop over the winter and planted next spring.

Portland's iconic elm tree, standing since 1870, is being removed due to safety concerns. ... “It suffered a lot of canopy loss during the last winter ice storm,” Wolf said.

A Jefferson elm tree, which will already be around 10-15 years old, will be planted in its place on the same corner of Abele Quad. Duke’s efforts to conserve its trees and care for them in a ...