What Happened To American Elm?
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I’m an older guy and saw the beautiful elm canopy but also watched the demise when DED hit them. Such an incredible loss. But, as you point out, humans have and their nostalgia- or agriculture-driven practices have taken a toll both in species reduction and in cost of prevention. The list of flora and fauna is long and will, for better or worse, continue to grow. Thank you!
I spent a year working as an intern with the USFS at a research station which researched and produced American Elms and ash trees for restoration. I want to say it is impressive how thorough you were! This video was a pretty concise summary of most of what I learned while working there and would honestly be a good crash course. I would add that we're always on our toes; the summer I was there we had a surprise visit from a novel elm pest: elm zig-zag sawfly. It hadn't been seen in our state before so there was a month of panic before we determined its impact was actually much lower than we anticipated, but it goes to show that the status quo of a tree is never set in stone.
Any chance the research station you referenced was located in voluntown connecticut?
@@LogicallyCompromisedNo, it was in Delaware, OH.
ZIG ZAG FLY & ZIGGY WITH A CHAINSAW ARE OUR BIGGEST THREATS & SPORES EVEN FROM FIREWOOD
I know of a 4’ DBH that was cut down about 8 years ago that was in the front yard of a house. The owners told me their insurance company told them to cut it or they were going to cancel their policy! What a f-in shame!
I would have told my insurance company to go piss off!
I have an Elm In Jefferson County PA that is much larger than the largest you show. I transplanted it 39 years ago. It is the fastest growing tree on my arboretum. So far no disease!
Would love to see it sometime. Close to I 80?
@@ohiowoodburner Near I80 exit 86
I have a little oak growing naturally in my yard right under a power line. I'm not sure what kind of oak it is but it's about 1.5 years old now. It's about 7 ft tall and as big around as a quarter at the base.
What is the best time of year to transplant? How big is the root ball I need to dig up?? Can I do anything to prepare the hole to ensure success?
Sorry for the long question but you seem to know a thing or two. Thank You. The tree is in SW VA.
@@terryt2728 Pretty sure autumn is the best time for transplanting followed by winter with spring being the worst time for transplanting most if not all perennial plants. At this point the optimal window has passed but now is the second most optimal timing. The main thing to be aware of is that you take care and transplant as much as possible of the trees roots which is likely already substantial. I think with a shovel and careful observation of the roots as you are digging to avoid cutting the major feeder and tap roots it should be a good time provided you water it. Been so dry this year here in VA though I think in the southern part of the state you are doing better than we are here in Northern VA.
Size wise I think most oaks with notable exception of the Blackjack oak are fairly large mature trees so make sure you have space for them.
@Dragrath1 Thank you very much for the answer. I have 10 acres in WV I'm going to put it on.
As a child in the 1960 - 1970's eyewitness this blight firsthand.
My childhood home had four enormous elm trees between the sidewalk and the street.
The elm trees formed a tunnel, because they were planted directly across from each other throughout the entire neighborhood.
One by one the City came out and cut them all down, and ground off the stumps.
Sad days!
This is a surprisingly positive outlook for the future of American elm. I almost always hear people talk about elm trees in the same way they do American chestnut. Nice to hear you believe they can make a strong comeback
I have some hope American chestnuts can make a comeback. There are people breeding somewhat blight resistant American chestnut strains, and additionally there's work underway to splice in just a few new genes which would make them immune without all the collateral genetic changes caused by random mutations through intense breeding or interbreeding with other chestnuts. As long as people don't panic about GMOs and shut them down I think it's reasonably achievable to grow and plant a bunch of immune chestnuts along streets and country roads and let the squirrels take it from there.
@@eyesofthecervino3366 Very much so. 👍
He didn't say that
@@Marcel_Audubon what is your interpretation?
Yeah American elm populations in the wild surprisingly are doing alright the main problem was that the domestic cultivars were all too closely related. In fact some research indicates that some of the efforts to stop the fungus by culling elm trees in the wild actually did more damage to elm biodiversity than the blight has.
I love this channel. I've learned so much from the knowledgeable, well-spoken, host. I want to adopt him. As if that's not weird at all. 🙂
...um...that is kinda weird. Ngl ✌🏽
Hi, Adam,
I actually purchased an American "Liberty" Elm that has a decent amount of resistance to the Dutch Elm Blight. I also have a very large specimen on my property that must have some built in resistance. (Two people can't reach to have their fingers touch around its trunk.)
Both are old enough to have had many seeds.
I propagate, and give the seedlings away every year.
We do our best, 😊
JJ
KEEP OTHER PEOPLES FIREWOOD AWAY FROM YOUR PROPERTY OR ANY RAW LUMBER ETC>>SPORES TRAVEL>
@@PAN-u5t Absolutely! And, there are some invasive, introduced insects no one needs, either.
I've got a bit of a "Jurassic Park" thing going here. In that, I'm doing my best to keep native species of trees that are having a hard time of it in this area. And, it seems there are more species having trouble than not right now.
@@PAN-u5t Yeah though I should note that in the case of the Dutch elm fungus it is effectively codependent on the Dutch elm beetle which is one of the eusocial fungal farming beetles. Because of this the way you control its spread is by controlling the beetles which tend and spread it carrying the fungus with them as they head out to found new colonies. Thus in a sense many of the tactics which you want to employ are likely those which target the beetle colonies and their nuptial propagation.
Excellent vid Adam. I am a huge fan of the elm. One of the nicest I have seen is on the campus of Chatham U. in Squirrel Hill. Gorgeous! My eye is trained for elms wherever I go. The most interesting is on I-80 just as you enter Ohio from PA. There is a lone elm in the median that I suspect was spared by a knowledgeable crew who felt it important to let it grow. One of the ironies of homesteaders etc that cut the elms down is they realized VERY fast that elms make difficult firewood as they don't split. The joke in firewood is that Dutch Elm Disease invented the hydraulic splitter industry! Elm was used for wagon wheel hubs, butcher blocks etc due to its resistance to splitting. Keep up the good work sir!
There's a trick to splitting elm. It splits when it's cold out.
I was just at a property in SugarGrove PA just outside of Corry and I saw a huge, vase shaped tree that i did not recognize from afar. Took a short hike and was very surprised to find it was an elm! Only the second one I had ever seen! It made my soul happy! Thank you for all that you do to bring awareness about our beautiful trees!
Thanks Adam for all you do and share with us. I have learned a lot and appreciate you. 😊
As a young boy in the 1960s, I remember American elms along the main streets of my hometown in suburban Boston. I would look at them from the kitchen window while eating breakfast before school. They were wonderful, mature specimens. I also remember them eventually appearing sickly over the years with broken limbs and leaves that were yellow by midsummer.
Thank you for the informative video.
The huge beautiful Elms on Boston Common 25 to 30 years ago, were bittersweet to me when I saw them. During the 1970's Dutch Elm Disease from the US was introduced to England. The village that I lived in in Rutland in England had hundreds of Elm Trees that had been planted in 1804. Some of the villagers made their living making wheels for waggons, & coffins.
It was desperately sad to see these huge trees all die off in about three years, in 1972 to 1976.
The approaches to the village had been lined with Elm trees, shading the walkers. With the trees gone by 1980, the lanes became exposed to bitter winter winds, unlike before.
Elms survive in our hedges, but as hedge plants. They grow for several years until the branches get to be about an inch in diameter, at which point, the bark is deep enough for the Elm Disease bugs to get into the bark, & to kill of the trees.
30 years ago in my area (Midwest) we had tons of large elms. Today we still do, but they all look terrible. Elm is the most common tree around here. I was told it had to do with Arbor day and people were encouraged to get elms or something along those lines. Just looking out of my window, I can see many in the neighboring yards greater than 18" in diameter. The leaves are all way smaller and terrible looking. They all also have branches dying back all the time, but they're surviving! There are also a few on my property that look completely unaffected, but none of those are even 12" in diameter. Considering how quickly they propagate, I think they will be just fine in due time. Concerned people may want to see change in their lifetimes, but the elms don't run on the same clocks as us. We won't get to see it, but they will adapt and overcome.
Sounds like Siberian elm.
it's highly unlikely those are American elm which often had 4 and 5 foot diameter trunks.
When I was young in the 1970s our Midwestern town got hit with Dutch Elm and we lost all the old Elm trees in the town. It devastated the tree population. Now today we have the Emerald Ash borer that is doing the same to our Ash trees.
@@jimbucket2996 Wild American elms aren't that uncommon actually Siberian elms are a mildly invasive species but their leaves are generally far smaller and their bark doesn't have the same patterning of the American elm.
Frankly while damaging Dutch elm disease has never been as dramatic of a threat to elms as say the Emerald ash borer or chestnut blight have been to ash and chestnut respectively. The problem came from how people propagated cultivars of the species and planted them in close proximity.
The Dutch elm beetle is a eusocial fungal farming beetle living in large social hives where they raise their coevolved/"domesticated" fungus which is the causal agent of the Dutch elm disease. This means both the beetle and the fungus are entirely codependent on each other for survival but as they reproduce quickly and live in large colonies evolution can happen quite rapidly.
So long as the Dutch elm beetle is around young beetles will carry the fungus from their parent tree setting off to find new hosts to infect and build up their own colonies. The planting of cities with lots of closely related mature trees was basically an ideal environment for these beetles and because the spread of the fungus is an essential core part of this beetle's lifecycle which have large numbers of offspring natural selection made transmission of the blight extremely hard to stop in much the same way as how humans efforts to eradicate various ant invaders have basically utterly failed. Pest treatment applications can work but the insects are quite adaptable and unrelenting on human timescales.
Thanks Adam. In our forest in Vermont we have many small elms in the wetter sections. Unfortunately they all die from the Dutch Elm Disease when they get about 6-8” in diameter. It’s encouraging to see from your video that a few trees do make it to maturity.
Thanks for another great video. There is a ten acre land locked bottom land parcel on my property that has mature American elm trees. Once you get to know your local trees you feel a strong bond and appreciation. Thank you for generously sharing your knowledge. It has enhanced my relationship with nature. 🙏
Thank you Adam for your knowledge and wisdom. We love you
Another wonderful video ! I can't get enough ! Always informative and entertaining ! Thank YOU !
Another great video. Yours are always must watch. Thank you!
Adam you great. I have learned a lot from you. Keep it coming.
Thanks Adam. Another great video. I enjoy all you stuff as it directly applies since I live in Northern VA.
This is a fascinating . Thank you for all the research. Love your channel
I lived on a beautiful road called Elm Street.
When the Dutch elm disease came trough my hometown in the 70’s, our trees on our street were completely decimated.
The memories live on, but the street was never the same again.
Trees were cut down
As usual, terrific presentation and information Adam! Great hearing that American Elm is holding it's own and still an important part of the ecosystem. I always look forward to your videos! Thanks! 👍👍🌲🌲
Everyone takes trees for granted, but every tree has more history than we can imagine.
There's a great utube Beyond Belief that a plant witnessed a murder and when they hooked it up to polygraph, it went berzerk when the murderer entered the room!
@@robynperdieu3434 The book 'The Secret Life of Plants' is amazing too.
Cleve Baxter was studying and experimenting with polygraphs for the gvmt and accidentally stumbled on the plants reaction when he thought about killing a spider crossing his desk... hadn't even made a move to do it, was just thinking about it. So cool. We're all one, indeed 😊
I knew much of this, but I didn't realize that new small elms can get big enough to make viable seeds before Dutch Elm Disease affects them. This leaves open the possibility for an elm mutation that is immune to the disease, which is very encouraging!
In Illinois this disease sweeps through and kills about a third of the American Elms, not all. Two foot diameter trees are still common. I remember when some of the American Elm trees lining streets in a large town about 25 miles from me lost some trees from ice and winds in the 1980s. The city cut down all the rest of the large street trees and planted small trees in their place.
On my 80 acres in far Northern Wisconsin. My rock elms are dieing as are my white ash. I can only hope oak wilt won't come next.
I love my woods and it pains me to see so many trees die off. Thanks for this educational vid
In the last 2 years we birdwatchers in Lancaster, PA are attracted to elm trees because of the variety of birds attracted there by small flying insects. Both American Elm and Siberian, which is not native to PA. Last year and this year Cape May Warblers have stayed a couple weeks during migration feasting at these trees. Thx for the video.
I have 3 American Elms on my property in the city in central Indiana. They're all of a similar size, with a circumference of about 84" at 5'. Overall, they're healthy, but there are a few wind damaged limbs that could use trimmed.
As a bonus, there's also a Tulip Tree next door, an Apple and a couple more Elms in the yard next to it, so we've been lucky enough to get Morels in the yards as well. So, even though there's a battle every Spring with seedlings, the Elms aren't going anywhere!
Love Elm! House I grew up in has a huge elm on the boulevard! Still there today!
Thank you for all the information.
Dominion (2018)
With our disguised indoctrination system portrayed as an education, I've always thought having literature written by Adam should be a required class in our schools. I know I've used his informative videos to forage and identify 🍄 and process them into tinctures for medicine. Awesome work Adam 👏 👏 👏
My favorite naturalist! Adam, you have taught me so much about my landscape. I have expanded my foraging and deepened my appreciation of the brilliance of the Eastern Woodlands. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
Id love to give that elm a big hug❤thx Adam
Good vid with good info! Thanks!
Thankyou Adam for another great video ❤❤❤
Great video. Thanks Adam.
There's literally thousands of American and slippery elms in our forest in western Wisconsin they grow in the uplands and the valley's some are large like you showed .some occasionly succumb to dutch elm disease. There is resistant pure american elms out there for sale .one is valley forge elm .
Thanks for the video. I love a huge elm. I've only known one wild elm with a trunk that diameter, and it's been dead about 15 years. I know several that are 2-2.5 feet in diameter chest height that I've been watching for decades and haven't shown signs of disease yet. One's got a perfect field grown habit, a vase overflowing with greenery, so lovely. edit: Though I was recently introduced to the Siberian Elm, they grow huge fast- and fall down on stuff. But a very impressive tree- just don't plant it next to anything.
Thanks again Adam. Your videos are always interesting and informative.
Thank you for your videos. Appreciate your love . I have several saplings of slippery elm and ash trees trying to get grown
Nice piece! Thanks for sharing your big old elm with us, great to see, & we mean GREAT!
Thank you❤
I have a very old and large American Elm. Twenty eight years ago I treated it with my own idea. With no spraying or poison! The oozing and dripping from one of the large branches was so bad it made a puddle about 5'x3,' on the ground under it. After one Hefty treatment, the disease was killed and it dried up. My beautiful tree is doing fine!! It is one the most beautiful trees in my city in New Mexico My treatment is a success! Don’t let your tree die or be cut down!
Your not going to give us your recipe?
Let’s get the recipe?
Give it up
@@ruthannmarie7119 I’m trying to protect my discovery at this time. I'm sorry. I will try to get back with you. How can we exchange e-mail addresses? My home town is Roswell.
@@ruthannmarie7119 ok, I injected the point of the oozing with 10ppm, Colloidal Silver. So, let me know if it works for you two. I used a horse syringe.
Good morning.
I discovered a very large elm back in the 1990s. My boss had a researcher from Cornell come to positively identify it. Not the largest in the state. But he said it was in the top 5.
I have a medium sized elm tree on my 20 acres. Its probably about 20" in diameter. Hopefully it lives a long life.
Dead elms my favorite place to find morel mushrooms
My childhood memories are full of a giant 80 ft elm that grew right next to our house 8 ft in diameter it was more shade than one house needed
Really appreciate the history for understanding, esp how our tree environment is changing.
Early pictures of my farm show two massive American Elms along my north fence row, unfortunately they were gone before I was born. But I've since planted and continue to plant Elm in those fence rows, hopefully at least one or two of them make it to a good size.
Adam, We have similar problems with our Canadian Elms.
I have friends who lived outside of Mathews,VA, one time when visiting I remarked that the two trees in their backyard were stunningly beautiful, they told me that they were elms and to not tell anyone that they had these 2 incredible specimens. They have sold that house but I am glad I got to see how magnificent these trees are in real life.
I collected some American Elm seeds towards the end of Morel season this year and planted them on my property. I currently have 20 saplings growing. The rabbits ate the rest. We'll see how it goes...
The shade from an American Elm really is something special. We have one large American Elm alive in our town and it is magnificent. Not sure if the city treats it, but I'm always happy to stop and admire it when I walk past.
Thanks Adam for all the knowledge
Great video, as always. Love my elm trees. Or "our" Elm trees! If there's one thing I learned from you and your channel, Adam, is that life - in all its forms - is ephemeral. And therefore more valuable!
The Ouachita Mtns in western Arkansas have an abundance of American and Winged Elm. They are literally everywhere...every fenceline.
I lived for years in central Texas, one of the areas where Dutch Elm Disease didn't have much of an effect, and there were quite a few wild American Elms growing in interfluvial areas between creeks and in floodplains.
Elm varieties bloom at different times of the year. Thats important to honeybee survival. They get very early pollen from one type that blooms early while its still freezing. The pollen is very good for the honeybee
I absolutely love your channel! So much of your content transfers to south central pa it makes a day hike here even more informative. I hope you can keep doing what you do for a long-time i know i have learnd an incredible amount from your channel!
I am old enough to remember the big old elms in South Jersey as a child. Are you collecting the seeds and propagating them from that big old elm that seems to be immune to Dutch Elm Disease? You could be "Johnny Elm Seed".
I have a large American elm in my yard that seems healthy so far and there are little elm seedlings sprouting up all over. The orioles like to build their nests in it.
I am a trail runner for many years now. I have noticed and documented with pictures the decline of some of the forests I run in. Many big trees falling down and underbrush is sparse...I barely know my trees, don't judge I'm city folk, but what I see even to the lay person appears to be a serious and quick decline. I'm in the Northeast.
I wonder what the impact of trails and people traffic is on the root systems
@@PNNYRFACE people have been walking the earth for thousands of years. This isn't even a viable question...
And humans are lightweights compared to some of the fauna that were rampant in North America before European settlement.
@ judiAmicatron
It wasn’t a question it was a thought
Learn your grammar before you try to punch down on strangers on the internet
I am not your punching bag
@ abydosianchulac2
You have been running trails since before the European settlement?
im managing my 30 acres. Ive got some elm. ABout 25 acres is forest. Previoud owners logged it about 20 years ago, but left some decent sized trees back then. I just had a red oak fall last year that had a base over 6' in diamter. Double trunk tree. Had to have been well over 150 years old.
Thank you for such a great channel.
I got five acres in mi. When I was little, 60 years a go we had many large Elm. They are all gone now. The only elm I have left are young. Oldest live trees on this land is maybe 20 Or 25 years.
Adam!! I recently read your name in the beginning of one of Sam Thayer's books. Be well, my dude, you are truly a blessing to us all! \m/
I have always enjoyed you videos. Thank you.
one of my favorite childhood trees; thanks for sharing.
2 Canadian cities, there may be more, have Elms lining their roads and streets, providing leafy shade and beautiful canopy. That would be Edmonton Alberta and Saskatoon Saskatchewan.
These cities have an active program to maintain the health of their trees.
I grew up in Europe - as a child learned these things from my father and grandfather …now in America Adam is my teacher…
Thanks again Adam for posting such great content. I live in the bottom lands of the Connecticut river and while there are many small elms around here, nothing I've seen bigger than 12 inches.
Thank you Dr. Haritan! What a beautiful tree in your area!
Our family farm had over 1000 elm trees growing in the fence rows.I can remember as a child waiting for the school bus,in the shelter of a massive elm at the front of our farm.Dutch Elm Disease ravaged our trees,killing all the old trees in less than 4 years.The younger trees seemed to have some sort of natural immunity;but once their girth exceeded 10 inches they died too.
This past summer I lost the first elm tree that I used to locate morels on my property. Thanks to your previous videos on morels. Hopefully I don't loose any more.
An iconic beautiful tree. The tree in my icon died a few years ago and so sadly this spring a tree of 4'8" diameter in my area died as well :(
I recently found a relatively large beautiful American elm in my neighborhood that only just recently was attacked by DED, or so it seems. I can tell it was recent as it had a dozen green leaves growing on it. I’ve only just recently realized I have a passion for trees and more specifically finding and preserving threatened trees, and I wish I had gotten into this sooner so that 10 years ago when I moved into this neighborhood I could have seen it while it was in better condition. I’m sure I saw it once or twice without knowing but back then it was nothing but a tree to me. Now it’s so much more. We also have several large and beautiful beech trees that are slowly succumbing to beech leaf disease. We also have so many large stately white ash trees that are slowly declining from the emerald ash borer. They’re some of the largest trees in my area and it’s so sad to watch. It’s such a shame but I am glad I got to see them while they’re alive.
Very well written and presented.
I remember a 100+ year old elm that was cut down after disease infected it. Bole was about 8 ft. height was 125+ ft. It fell next to a swamp, so we kids had a great bridge. An even older chestnut grew at school, with pointed husks and thousands of nuts to throw. Generations of kids could no longer pelt each other. Too bad!
Great video and info. Loved the archival materials. Large american elms are few and far between here in the woods of southern Indiana, more often than not I see young trees in groups that tend to die off when they reach 6-8 inches in diameter.
Much appreciated, thank you for your lecture on a most important resource, TREES!!
The Fallen Elm
Old Elm that murmured in our chimney top
The sweetest anthem Autumn ever made
And into mellow whispering calms would drop
When showers fell on thy many-coloured shade,
And when dark tempests mimic thunder made
While darkness came as it would strangle light
With the black tempest of a Winter night
That rocked thee like a cradle to thy root,
How did I love to hear the winds upbraid
Thy strength without, while all within was mute;
It seasoned comfort to our hearts’ desire.
We felt thy kind protection like a friend
And pitched our chairs up closer to the fire,
Enjoying comforts that was never penned.
Old favourite tree, thou’st seen time’s changes lour
Though change till now did never injure thee,
For time beheld thee as her sacred dower
And nature claimed thee her domestic tree.
Storms came and shook thee many a weary hour
Yet steadfast to thy home thy roots hath been.
Summers of thirst parched round thy homely bower
Till earth grew iron; still thy leaves was green.
The childern sought thee in thy Summer shade
And made their playhouse rings of sticks and stone;
The mavis sang and felt himself alone
While in thy leaves his early nest was made
And I did feel his happiness mine own,
Nought heeding that our friendship was betrayed.
Friend not inanimate, though stocks and stones
There are and many formed of flesh and bones,
Thou owned a language by which hearts are stirred
Deeper than by a feeling clothed in words;
And speakest now what’s known of every tongue,
Language of pity and the force of wrong;
What cant assumes, what hypocrites may dare
Speaks home to truth and shows it what they are.
I see a picture that thy fate displays
And learn a lesson from thy destiny:
Self interest saw thee stand in freedom’s ways
So thy old shadow must a tyrant be.
Thou’st heard the knave, abusing those in power,
Bawl freedom loud and then oppress the free.
Thou’st sheltered hypocrites in many a shower
That when in power would never shelter thee.
Thou’st heard the knave supply his canting powers
With wrong’s illusions when he wanted friends,
That bawled for shelter when he lived in showers
And when clouds vanished made thy shade amends;
With axe at root he felled thee to the ground
And barked of freedom - O I hate that sound;
Time hears its visions speak, and age sublime
Had made thee a disciple unto time.
- It grows the cant terms of enslaving tools
To wrong another by the name of right;
It grows the licence of o’erbearing fools
To cheat plain honesty by force of might.
Thus came enclosure - ruin was its guide
But freedom’s clapping hands enjoyed the sight,
Though comfort’s cottage soon was thrust aside
And workhouse prisons raised upon the site.
E’en nature’s dwellings far away from men,
The common heath, became the spoilers’ prey;
The rabbit had not where to make his den
And labour’s only cow was drove away.
No matter - wrong was right and right was wrong
And freedom’s bawl was sanction to the song.
Such was thy ruin, music-making Elm.
The rights of freedom was to injure thine.
As thou wert served, so would they overwhelm
ln freedom’s name the little that is mine.
And there are knaves that brawl for better laws
And cant of tyranny in stronger powers,
Who glut their vile unsatiated maws
And freedom’s birthright from the weak devours.
Written c. late 1830.
John Clare. Edited by R. K. R. Thornton. London: Everyman, 1997. 79-81.
With grateful thanks to Professor Thornton.
Mother Nature may "bounce back" but we should still treat her with respect. Thanks for the video, Adam!
Well said!
🖐TY for the VIDEO ☺️👍✌
I was thinking, you mentioned that in towns people would plant elms to line streets. This soil is unlike the favored environment of elms. Is it likely that the susceptibility of numerous trees to disease was due to their planting location? Away from rich soils found near streams, as you mention.
Outstanding video. Thanks.
Dutch Elm Disease has never been a problem down here in the south. I have never seen an affected tree here in the Houston area.
Do you have very many grand American Elms there?
Awesome channel keep up the good work
Thank you I lived on Elm st. In Somerset Ma. And all our trees died when I was a kid . It is great to know there is still some Alive . Our trees was huge.
My home town in the upper Midwest used to have a lot of mature American elms throughout the city. My childhood home had 3 large elm trees that provided a lot of shade. Once Dutch elm disease reached the town in the mid 70s, we lost all 3 trees within a 2-3 year period. The trees were between 70-90 years old when they were cut down.
There were also several main city streets with large elms planted on both sides of the streets. Like you mention in the video, the branches of the trees met over the middle of the street. It was an imposing sight. Again, once Dutch elm disease reached the town, the city had to take down all the trees over a span of 2-3 years. There are still some isolated mature elm trees in various parts of the city. Now that there are fewer elms over all, the progression of Dutch elm disease has slowed down some.
What a fascinating video. I never realized their integral role in the forest. Thanks for doing this. ❤️🙏😎👍
I love their buttressed trunks! :D Thank you for the video!
We're still lucky to have a mature elm nearby (it's huge). It was on the edge of a farmers field that eventually got developed for a new housing subdivision. They built the houses around it instead of cutting it down.
These beautiful trees disappearing would be a nightmare! 😜
Jokes aside, my partner and I stayed at a cabin in the Appalachian mountains near Cherry Hill, and we saw quite a few different kinds of beautiful trees and of course mushrooms!!
We regret leaving the woods since 😂
That's a trip down memory lane. We had some amazing Elm trees on our farm in NH lining roads etc.
Wow! That is a beautiful tree.
the streets in cedar rapids Iowa had those big beautiful trees on both sides in the 60s, all gone now
The elm disease is also a big problem in europe (kills nearly of 90-95% of all elms here)
thank you
Growing up in Minneapolis, we had two elm trees that were at least 6 feet in diameter. In addition our street had many elm trees along it. All of them died in the late 1970s.
At 63, I'm just old enough to remember the tail-end of the die-off on those elm-lined main roads in many smaller midwestern towns and cities. Back then, the Elm Bark Beetle was usually called the "Japanese Beetle" in conversation and newsprint.