Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brown University’s 155-acre campus is home to thousands of trees and is recognized for its impressive American elm collection.

An American elm tree that predates the Civil War was cut down this week. The tree has stood on the grounds of the First Presbyterian Church 1793 since the first church building was constructed in 1851 ...

Frank Knight dedicated 54 years to the care of an old elm tree in Yarmouth, Maine. He decided to try to save the tree from Dutch elm disease (DED) in 1956, when hundreds of elms were dying in New ...

When Eiden Spilker ’24 learned that a decades-old elm tree was being removed from Brown’s Main Green in May 2024, he went to see if he could recover any of its wood. But the tree was gone in a matter ...

CHARLOTTE, Vt. — A venerable old elm tree that's believed to be the largest of its kind in New England has finally succumbed to Dutch elm disease in the Vermont town of Charlotte. The tree was 19 feet ...