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Web site, videos discuss significance of Penn State elm trees, disease
Friday, November 7, 2008
Greg Grieco
Penn State's elm trees are a living landmark at the University Park campus, although their future is being threatened. Click on the image above to visit the elm yellows Web site.
University Park, Pa. — Penn State's landmark elm trees are in danger of disappearing. Elm yellows disease, a deadly bacteria-like infection for which there is no known cure, already has infected more than 15 percent of the approximately 290 trees at University Park.
A Web site celebrating the tradition, beauty and history of the elms — and explaining the impact of elm yellows — offers photos, videos and other information at http://elmyellows.psu.edu.
Visitors to the site are invited and encouraged to post comments, such as reactions to the site's content and memories about the landmark trees.
Roger Williams, executive director of the Penn State Alumni Association, is interviewed in one video on the topic, "What Penn State Elms Mean to Alumni." You may view and offer a comment here.
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Bob Holden2008-11-13 09:38:22
For so many of us that have worked among these handsome elms year after year they often disappear into the background of our daily views of campus...But upon closer inspection one cannot help but be awestruck at the girth, mass, and gravity defying strength of these Titans....But great trees like great men and women all give way in the end. An old Greek Proverb states that "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." These noble elms are a visible connection to our past but if need be let us plan, plant, and proceed with confidence toward the future...after all that is the Penn State way.