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VILLAGE OF CAYUGA HEIGHTS
VILLAGE FORESTER
ANNUAL REPORT
In addition to Dutch Elm disease, another disease (phloem necrosis)
is now causing death in our elms. The result was a significantly heavier
loss of elms than in the past as indicated:
Elm Trees Removed
We should maintain our elm program for three reasons:
(1) It is more economical to remove dying elms than old dead elms
(some tree -men charge 2- to 4 -times as much'to work in rotting trees);
(2) Having all these rotting elms present would constitute a hazard
to person and property; and
(3) Aesthetically the Village environment would rapidly deteriorate
with thousands of dead and dying elms left to mar the landscape.
Again, I would like to thank the Villagers for their fine cooperation
and patience in our effort to keep the Village environment beautiful and safe.
David Pimentel
Village Forester
0 2/25/75
1970 1971 .1972
1973
1974
Private
property
530 483
544,
958,
1519*
Village
property
125 113
121
166
105
Total..
655 ... 596
665.
.1124
.'..1624 .
*More than 300
of these elms
were on Cornell University
property.
Communities with extensive
elm planting have been
affected by
the new
disease. Once
remaining elms
are thinned out, the
infection rate
should
•
decline. This
is typical of
all current epidemics.
We should maintain our elm program for three reasons:
(1) It is more economical to remove dying elms than old dead elms
(some tree -men charge 2- to 4 -times as much'to work in rotting trees);
(2) Having all these rotting elms present would constitute a hazard
to person and property; and
(3) Aesthetically the Village environment would rapidly deteriorate
with thousands of dead and dying elms left to mar the landscape.
Again, I would like to thank the Villagers for their fine cooperation
and patience in our effort to keep the Village environment beautiful and safe.
David Pimentel
Village Forester
0 2/25/75