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MINNEAPOLIS 鈥?A 200-year-old American elm tree stood condemned, finally succumbing, it seemed, to the disease that has killed off hundreds of thousands of other elms in Minnesota.The tree, one of the few old elms left in the Twin Cities, towered over a small channel of Minneapolis Lake of the Isles long before Minnesota was a state. Somehow it survived untreated as Dutch elm disease spread over the last 50 years from neighborhood to neighborhood. Its trunk, wide enough to walk through, bent into an oval as it grew and squeezed between a sidewalk and two-lane road built around it.But, at last, foresters found Dutch elm disease 鈥?a fatal fungal infection spread by beetles 鈥?in the tree this fall. They planned to cut it down Oct. 1.Then Kyla Wahlstrom stepped in.Wahlstrom, whos lived in the neighborhood for 42 years, saw the spray-painted red stripe around the trunk 鈥?the telltale marking of a tree destined to be cut down 鈥?while walking her 11-month-old retriever. She had lost some of her own trees to the disease, but none that were this tall, this old or this remarkable.With a circumference of 16 feet, Wahlstrom estimated the elm was likely between stanley fr 195 and 225 years old. Think of all the things its seen and lived through, Wahlstrom said. All the hard winters stanley de and droughts. It was here when Minnesota was just a territory. Wahlstrom, a retired professor at the University of Minnesota, said she learned long ago not to take things at face value. If the tree stanley kaufen was to be cut down, sh Nzjn Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Shazam! thrill Comic-Con
On the Web:30 sites listed as at-risk in report at: http://ucsusa.orgWASHINGTON 鈥?Saying theres a race against time, an advocacy group reported this week that climate change 鈥?leading to sea level rise and worsening wildfires 鈥?is putting some of the nations most significant historical sites at risk.Highlighting archaeological and other historical sites in severa stanley cup l states, a report released Tuesday by the Union of Concerned Scientists said that rising waters and raging flames could endanger some of the stanley thermos nations most-cherished locations. You can almost trace the history of the United States through these sites, Adam Markham, director of climate impacts at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a co-author of the report, said in a statement. The imminent risks to these sites and the artifacts they contain threaten to pull apart the quilt that tells the story of the nations heritage and history. On the Web:30 sites listed as at-risk in report at: lt;a href= http://ucsusa.org gt;http://ucsusa.orglt;/agt;Among the 30 sites at risk, according to the report The huge prehistoric mounds of oyster and clam shells that dot Floridas Gulf and Atlantic coasts. The report says Florida is one of the only places on Earth where coastal hunter-gatherers built shell structures as large and complicated as they are along Floridas southwest coast. Across the state in Canaveral Nat stanley italy ional Seashore, Turtle Mound is a massive shell structure that dates back at least 1,200 years. In both places, r |