July 23, 2026

The deadly experiment that could save the American elm

The deadly experiment that could save the American elm
The deadly experiment that could save the American elm
The deadly experiment that could save the American elm
The deadly experiment that could save the American elm
The deadly experiment that could save the American elm
The deadly experiment that could save the American elm

🌍✨ 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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Reporting curated for GreenTV. Original reporting via Grist.