Elm tree reintroduction project starts

Telegraph.co.uk – Stephen Adams

The first step to re-establishing elm trees in Britain is being taken this month with 250 schools receiving saplings to plant. By Stephen Adams From the …

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Good news for future generations, for centuries the English landscape was populated by elm trees until Dutch Elm disease killed most of them in the 1970s. It has been estimated that some 20 to 25 million trees were lost in all.