On the Wild Side
Jun 29, 2020
2 minutes
By Edward Kanze
andemic! We’ll get more earfuls of that dreaded word before the planet’s COVID-19 epidemic eases. As most of us use it these days, the word refers to human illnesses, ones that spread globally. Yet pandemics don’t just plague humans or, more broadly, animals. They afflict plants, too. The most notorious in the Adirondacks infect four trees: the American elm, the lesser-known slippery elm, the
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