Word: elm
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...official in the University Health Services (UHS) said yesterday the Department of Buildings and Grounds (B&G) should warn members of the Harvard community before spraying the pesticide malathon on elm trees around campus...
...April and June, B&G hires a company to spray about 230 elm trees on campus with a combination of malathion and another pesticide. Bernard K. Keohan, acting superintendent of grounds at B&G, said yesterday...
Malathion helps control the elm leaf beetle, which eats elm leaves. Louis F. Wells, a spokesman for the Massachusetts pesticide board said yesterday. He said the chemical is "not highly hazardous," based on the findings of pesticide studies...
...Elm wood Park...
...death of "Old 75," the elm on the White House grounds [Jan. 16], should remind us all that the environmental movement has yet to make a real impact on Congress or the White House. Lack of budget support for forestry research and management is a national disgrace. We lose more trees to insects and disease every year than we do to forest fires...