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Hi Marian, yup, some municipalities cut down their street elms as soon as they got infected, while others, such as Fredericton, are actively treating their park and street elms to try to keep them healthy. In Truro they chainsaw sculptures out of them. During a recent canoe trip down the West River St. Mary's (in Guysborough Co.) I noted only a single mature live elm tree, and three or four standing dead ones, along maybe 80 km of the river. (Elm trees, dead or alive, stand out from their neighbours due to their unmistakeable shape of their crowns.) Old white pines, hemlocks, red spruce, yellow birches, and red maples were common; at least in the narrow unlogged strip of land along the river.... Dusan Soudek ---- fulton.harding@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: > All the elms were cut down many years ago in Chipman NB when they became infected with Dutch Elm disease. There is one lone elm approximately 10 km away in Coal Creek on what was my Grandfather William Gesner's property. That elm was still healthy the last time I looked at it. Always amazed me that it survived when so many trees did not. > > Marian Fulton > Hantsport NS > > ---- Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > > I've been following the debate triggered by G.L. Saunders' and Nick > > Hill's recent opinion pieces in the Herald on the past and the future of the > > Acadian Forest, and am somewhat surprised that the American Elm, our most > > endangered native tree species, hasn't been mentioned once. > > This species once dominated the rich alluvial lands along the lower > > courses of our rivers. These lands were extremely attractive to early > > European settlers, and many were cleared for agriculture centuries ago. The > > second blow to the American Elm was the arrival of Dutch Elm Disease in the > > 20th century, which wiped out much of the remnant population. > > Yet one can still find an apparently healthy elm tree in the wild (or the > > semi-wild) here and there. Are these rare individuals healthy due to chance > > alone, i.e. their relative isolation from infected conspecific individuals, > > or do they represent resistant genotypes? > > Elm habitat in our province is under-represented in our system of > > protected areas, because much of it is being farmed, inhabited, or simply > > isn't "wild" enough to be protected. There seems to be no local effort to > > re-establish resistant > > genotypes of American Elm into the Acadian Forest Region. > > Paradoxically, elm trees are quite common on the streets of Halifax. What > > species are they? Are any of them American Elm? > > If so, what might be their provenance? > > Dusan Soudek > > > > >
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