Hi, I recently moved to KC MO where we live on to some farm acreage about 45 mi SE of KC. on our property are a number of large old elm trees. I am ASSUMING they are american elms. The thing that is surprising to me is that they are so large. I remember when I was a kid in the 1970s dutch elm disease was destroying the elm trees in IL. In fact, I remember watching all the elms in Elmhurst get chopped down as the bark beetles spread with the disease. I am not sure how old the trees are and I'm hesitant to start drilling cores into them to find out. Any chance they managed to survive the disease or get missed by it? What is the status of American Elm in relation to this disease today?
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