Now I wonder if wood for construction of elm with Dutch elm disease and
wood of elm without Dutch elm disease were different woods? In other
words would a tree felled of Dutch elm disease be any weaker or less of
a construction grade lumber than a elm without the disease? I suspect
the answer is that they are the same lumber and that the fungus does
not have a role in the lumber. The fungus has a role in the premature
death of the elm tree but not in the lumber itself. Can someone confirm
or deny my suspicion. And if my suspicion is correct, then elm should
be planted often and if the tree dies the wood is still valuable,
especially Rock Elm.

I remember reading somewhere that a genus of trees in England was dying
out over a fungus some thousands of years ago and had nearly
exterminated the genus but then a few resistant survivors went on to
champion over the fungus and now England has a healthy community of
this genus. So I think the fate of elm genus will go the same pattern
where a collection of resistant survivors eventually re-emerge to
populate the woods.

Archimedes Plutonium
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