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...official in the University Health Services (UHS) said yesterday the Department of Buildings and Grounds (B&G) should warn members of the Harvard community before spraying the pesticide malathon on elm trees around campus...
...Elm wood Park...
...death of "Old 75," the elm on the White House grounds [Jan. 16], should remind us all that the environmental movement has yet to make a real impact on Congress or the White House. Lack of budget support for forestry research and management is a national disgrace. We lose more trees to insects and disease every year than we do to forest fires...
Before the Dutch elm disease struck in 1930, there were 77 million elms in U.S. cities and towns. Now there are 34 million and the disease has spread to 41 states. The Federal Government will spend about $4 million to seek a cure and control the disease this year. How feeble that is. We pay about $6 million a year for special limousine and airplane service for Washington's Government bigwigs. The Dutch elm disease has denuded whole communities, devastated suburbs, cost billions in neighborhood devaluation and incalculable aesthetic loss that some experts say has markedly altered home environments...
...eighth big White House elm to succumb to Dutch elm disease...