Reply #94: There was some debate about whether here east, we speeded up the disappearance [View All]

[HamdenRice]

of elms. I'm not sure whether this was elms or American Chestnuts -- but urban parks departments here on the east coast preemptively cut down millions of trees supposedly to prevent the spread of the disease by creating firewalls type situations, and it's believed that in doing so they destroyed the possibility of disease resistant individuals -- like the ones you are describing -- surviving.

Looks like Fargo did the right thing. Maybe those survivors could be used to replant the rest of the country.