Re: [Mpls] elm trees

[Melissa Wyatt]

Any reputable tree service (Rainbow Tree Service is particularly good) can do a preventative treatment to the trees roots. This should be ideally done as soon as dutch elm is detected in an area. The issue is that the treatment is not cheap (sorry, I can't provide a quote) and may not be successful. If the trees are in a boulevard, the city should ideally pay the cost; the sad part is the funding is not available. Thus, if you want to save a particular tree, you may have to fund it yourself.

Melissa Wyatt
Landscape Architect
Uptown

At 12:40 PM 11/1/2002 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Our neighborhood too has some beautiful elms.  Does anyone know what
preventive maintenence is in place by the city or park board to prevent
the loss of these beauties from our boulevards?
Susan Ohnstad - Minneapolis

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:04:39 -0600 WizardMarks
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One of the last of the great elms on my block was felled today. When
> it
> hit the ground, my house shook. It was easily 36" in diameter and
> it's
> great crown shaded two houses and blocked the late Western sun
> during
> the height of summer. That huge tornado which passed down my block
> in
> the early 80s pulled out all but two of the elms on the East side of
> the
> block and left those on the West side.
> The city's been good with us. They've replaced each of the felled
> trees.
> It's still sad, though, to see the huge hole left in the canopy with
> the
> loss of this tree.
> WizardMarks, Central
>
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