Paul B
I dig hammocks.
Hope this isnt a repost, I got a magazine today (Landscape Trades) and it had a smidge of an article mentioning the confirmed case(s) of DED in Medford, OR.
That brings up an interesting point . Just perhaps these epidemics of plant life are cyclic ? Plants do mutate from time to time . For example in some of the Egyptian tombs they found I believe a variety of tomato that had not been seen in eons .It is not first time DED has hit us.
Pollenanalyses from bogs show that around here almost all the elms died out around 3000 bc.
Supposedly because of an epidemic of DED like the one we have now.
Here's what's ironic about this stuff .It was first discovered in Europe in 1910 . It hit England in 1927 and the US in 1928 .The stuff came to these shores via a load of veneer logs from the Netherlands destined for of all places ,Ohio .
Then ironically a more aggressive strain got shipped back to England in 1967 via a shipment of logs from North America .Kind like a case of the clap that just gets passed around .
When it came through this area in the 60's and 70's there were some huge fat old trees .It was not uncommon to see a 4 footer . After it killed most of them seldom would a tree get to 12 inches .It seems though that some may reach 20 inches on occasion now days . Perhaps those have mutated to be more immune to this stuff . Maybe ,just maybe ,given enough time they might come back .