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Blacksburg - Dutch elm disease in our American elms is not thfearsomething it was when it was first discovered in the United States. Man could do nothing to save its victims. Nor could anything be done to save the healthy elms which stood in the path of the infection.
According to R. Jay Stipes, a Virginia Tech assistant professor of plant pathology and physiology and an extension specialist; and John A. Weidhaas, associate professor of entomology and an extension entomologist, science is still powerless to prevent the death of an infected tree. But it can, with prompt action, prevent the disease from spreading.
Weidhaas and Stipes term Dutch elm disease America’s most devastating and econoimportant disease of shade trees. First discovered in Ohio in 1930, and in Virginia in 1934, it has spread north and south from Quebec to Georgia and east and west from the Atlantic coast to the Rocky Mountains.
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