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Re: Aside re Dutch Elm Disease

Mark Speakman wrote:
> 
> This by way of an 'every cloud has a silver lining' aside to the good news
> regarding resistant elms. Beside the Salmon Weir Bridge in Galway city an
> enterprising sculptor turned one of the stumps left after the sad felling
> of a line of elm along the river bank into a leaping salmon. The city
> fathers were so surprised they commissioned a series of additional works
> using the remaining stumps.
> Mark

On the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul many elm stumps have been
turned into sculpture. There are animals, pioneers and others. There is
even one now in my neighborhood. A homeowner paid to have the stump
turned into a mythic figure after the tree died. The City of Minneapolis
has an agressive policy of having diseased elms removed and, as a
result, still has a large percentage of their mature ones.
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