Credit: Eric Aldrich, The Nature Conservancy “At this point, every one of those trees has had this deadly fungus squirted into it,” Knight says of her elm saplings. “But they’re alive and they’re ...

It’s just an empty lot across from the Tamaqua Railroad Station, but in Micah Gursky’s eyes it will blossom into a proud tribute to the founding of the United States of America. On a recent visit to ...

But, for now, organizers hope guests visit the waist-high sapling in the ... met beneath a large elm along a main road in Boston. It was there, at this “Liberty Tree,” the first major act ...

The saplings are genetic offspring of the last ... explained the history of the first Liberty Tree. An elm planted around 1646 in Boston Common, it was the gathering place of the Sons of Liberty ...