About 50 years ago, Dutch elm disease wiped out most of the American elm trees, but some survived. Now, scientists in Vermont are injecting these trees and saplings with the disease in hopes of identifying and breeding these resistant individuals in hopes to bring more big American elms back to the East Coast.
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