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http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2009/12/27/when_this_tree_falls_he_will_feel_it/
YARMOUTH, Maine - The experts shook their heads and told Frank Knight it was over: Once Dutch elm disease showed up, nothing could be done.
But this was not just any diseased tree. The elm on the corner of Yankee Drive was magnificent, a local treasure high upon a hill above the harbor, among the oldest and the largest elm trees in New England. So Knight, the volunteer tree warden in Yarmouth, made it his mission to save it.
YARMOUTH, Maine - The experts shook their heads and told Frank Knight it was over: Once Dutch elm disease showed up, nothing could be done.
But this was not just any diseased tree. The elm on the corner of Yankee Drive was magnificent, a local treasure high upon a hill above the harbor, among the oldest and the largest elm trees in New England. So Knight, the volunteer tree warden in Yarmouth, made it his mission to save it.
