The trunk of an American beech tree infested with beech bark disease ... every one of those trees has had this deadly fungus squirted into it,” Knight says of her elm saplings. “But they’re alive and ...

The sapling I encountered looked healthy and ... see today are shaped by the population declines of the chestnut, American elm, white ash, eastern hemlock and American beech — all the result ...

Many were small saplings and easily uprooted for transport to a new location. Eventually our ancestors made a habit of transplanting the American Elm saplings with each spare moment, some very ...

The American elm and the American chestnut first flourished ... and the sprouts can soon grow into a large, dense cluster of saplings. This is referred to as “beech hell,” Canham said, because ...

Although roots that were cut or killed many years ago continue to produce sprouts that survive until the sapling ... Dutch elm disease (DED) primarily affects American and European species of ...

It might have been a sapling on that early morning in 1763 ... renowned for stoves and then cars and then blight, the American elm's base has spread and its crown has risen.