OTTAWA (UPC). - _
communities across the. oat
country, forestry experts i are

time: to :save-Canadas few
remaining elm trees from the
ravages: of. the’ bark. ‘beetle
* aud Duteh Bla disease.

The ‘suit “Ste! ‘Marie |
Great’ Lakes ‘Forest
Research Centre has
received requests to combat __

the” ‘disease; from thousands
of private citizens and the
cities of Foronto, Winnipeg, ©
Fredericton,’ ‘ Fort— Francis,
Thunder. Bay: and Windsor...

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In) ‘the ‘national capital,
agticultural, experts are
' prepared’ to concede defeat
‘by the ‘tiny beetle that
burrows through the bark of
older ‘trees and leaves the
- Dutch- ‘elm fungus - in- the ~
wood, ==

For three years, ‘officials ee
have been using the miracle - oT, os a
drug, lignasan, in the hopes -
of stopping the spread of the oan
. fungus that has wiped out all 7 :

_ but 2;000_of the 30,000 trees ~ 3
that used to shade. municipal
Properties in thie 1950's! Hy

“Ti program is just too
expensive and we have a- my
mortality rate of some 20
percent in the trees we are.
treating,” said city € éifiployee a
Dick Standisa. Last year, pm ,
Ottawa spent $30,000 to save -
325trees. | : -

“I would say all of the elms
will be dead by the end of | a
next year,” said Standish,
who will take his recom- »
mendation ,t0 city council
within a month. ;

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While the city is giving up, : : ' Steve Dunn /
the federal government is — John Barton 3395 E. Hastings & Cassiar , Wolter Thome |
determined to save elm trees 675 Marine Dr. Vancouver . 1712 Lonsdale Ave. & 17th

Gisela Kowalewski
on Parliament Hill, & Taylor Wo 7 North Vancouver
y - hp 1503 Marine Dr & 15th . _

Government , House ; West Vancouver ; West Vancouver
grounds, the rime :
minister’s Sussex Drive
residence and .- federal
parkways.

The NCC is using a four-.

phase programyto control the

disease that has ravaged

elms in almost every: tem-
_perate U.S“ state, wiped-out ~ }
trees in southern Quebec

and* left countless grey

skeletons along highways in
southwestern Ontanio.

The bark beetle has
spread the disease into
northern Ontario and as far
west as Winnipeg since it
was first detected in New
York harbor after World
War Foc. .

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The beetle and disease
spread to Quebec and Ot- Vo
tawa in the late 1940's and
has now decimated a “tree
population that once,
dominated the landscape.

urden, Man., federal
oftleikts think they have
developed a new strain of
elm, the Jacen, that is highly
resistant to Dutch Elm
disease. U.S. forestry ex-
perts and officials at Sault
Ste. Marie and the
Laurentian research centre
in Quebec are already
_watching to see how the tree

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will survive. °
“But. we won't know if. _—- Promises are one thing. Putting them up in quality Esso gasolines and lubricants, we also
there will be a successful bold letters is another. That's why we really want want to give you friendly service and dean,
strain paul Jong after we a you to come into our station and find out for attractive stations. We want you to come back. ,
er tim ‘ cause of the Ico ae yourself, We not only want to give you high- So we have to follow through, don’ t we? The Performan: Peop:
grow."' said federal Lo
agriculture department
spokesmar Dr. Phil Camp-
bell.