Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 31, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 Winnipeg free july 1980 saving wild elms almost impossible by Andy Blicq Winnipeg free in press Beaconia virtually nothing can be done to save wild stands of Ameri can Elm Trees in Southern Manitoba currently being ravaged by dutch Elm say provincial forestry offi cottage owners and residents around grand Pine broke head River and Seine River areas facing a severe infestation of the tree killing disease can expect to spend about to a year per tree for fungicide injections if they want to save Trees on their proper Mem coordinator of the provincial dutch Elm disease said the forestry Protection Branch of the department of natural resources will remove dead and dying Trees that pose a but Hildahl said that outside the Winnipeg Selkirk the onus is mainly on homeowners to decide which Trees in their Yards they want to save and have injected with dutch Elm disease has destroyed up to 80 per cent of the Trees in some and once its its Here to Hildahl eventually most of the elms will be although Young stands of Elm will they too will become to Trees removed under the provincial government tree removal and pruning is being conducted in the win Nipe Selkirk dutch Elm disease control in other infected Crews Are marking Trees and have removed to Trees deemed a Hazard to during the last seven Hans Weerts has watched the elms at his cottage site 80 Kilometres North of Winnipeg succumb one by one to the it was a Paradise he said shaking his it was about seven years ago i spotted the first Weerts said about 15 Trees have died on his property As a result of the but his anger and frustration Over the loss is aimed at the provincial not the Elm bark Beetle which spreads the dutch Elm they Are Sloppy in their whole work and there is no cooperation with the local he said in an interview Weerts said it took two years of phone Calls before provincial officials came to see the infected Trees in his Yard in he said government employees have removed Trees without informing As government employees have missed tagging infected Trees irl his Yard and have not removed some Trees which have fallen victim to the he grounds damaged and when government officials have taken Trees from his Weerts said branches and damaged grounds were left we have anything dutch Elm disease at All Here if it would have been done Weerts they blew certainly they blew it was wasted but Allan provincial manager of forestry in an inter Weerts said we will never Stop the growth of dutch Elm disease in the wilds in Jeffrey said his department took control of the dutch Elm disease program april 1 and he could not answer for what happened prior to he said some Trees on Weerts property Are obviously dead and should have been Crews should be in the area to re move the Trees he i dont think there has been enough information Given for what owners can do to their he said information on dutch Elm disease is available by Catling the provincial for Estry Protection at forestry officials Allan Jeffrey left and Vern Hildahl inspect pump injecting solution roots of a sick the now under May turn out to be the much needed cure that would have saved some of the Trees on the property of cottage owner Hans solution tested As cure for elms Libau provincial forestry officials Hope a new bacteria solution injected into the roots of american elms will provide an inexpensive and permanent cure against dutch Elm the current fungicides used to Battle the disease must be injected into the tree every one or three years at a Cost of Between and the solution was injected into an Elm tree Here yesterday As part of the first known tests of the substance in the once injected into the is toxic to dutch Elm disease said Allan provincial manager of Forest Protection and dutch Elm if this stuff works youll actually be Able to hit it a tree with an axe and inject the he during this the bacteria Are pumped under pressure through plastic tubing into 48 injection Heads attached to the Trees weather precipitation h High l Low from four other Trees in lower fort Brandon and Selkirk have been Given similar treat three of the Trees have dutch Elm two do we understand even a tree that has dutch Elm disease can be Jeffrey local forestry experts Are optimistic about the outcome of the Experiment and its possibilities for practical apply in theory it seems Jeffrey the equip ment has All been developed for practical it grows like said adding it is easy to we think it will be relatively he Western express five tickets Worth each and five Worth each were picked in the Western express lottery draw wednesday the tickets Are 4020389 and the tickets Are 4730984 and there Are prizes of for tickets with the last six digits of the top for the last five digits and for the last the prices come Down you Only have two Days left to shop for fabulous buys at our 2 Fine showroom locations during floating ecstasy great grand opening waterbed and 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