🌍✨ The deadly experiment that could save the American elm
Why we’re watching: After more than a decade of nurturing, it had come time to infect this 28-acre grove of American elms with a disease that would almost certainly kill them.
Dressed in hunter-green muck boots, grey pants, and a brown Nature Conservancy T-shirt, Gus Goodwin knelt down to give the first tree its shot. 💚
Using a bamboo stake marked at 12 inches as a gauge, he measured that far off the ground, held his drill at a slight downward angle, and pulled the trigger. “We need to create a wound,” Goodwin, the conservancy’s director of science and technology a…
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