The Elms are not extinct. I've got over 30 of them around home here in Otsego County and many more up in Jefferson County. Dutch Elm disease did a number on the American Elm, but some were resistant and many don't get sick until they get to a certain size. Many of mine are at least 50 years old.
I think the Adirondack region and central New York is losing more hard maples permanently to acid then caterpillars. The caterpillars have always come in 2-3 year cycles and then disappeared. So far, the healthy trees have just about always recovered. Acid rain and acid from road salt is doing much worse things in the long run. I've got sugarbush in Jefferson, Hamilton, and Otsego Counties. Didn't see any caterpilars in Jefferson, and only a few in Hamilton County. Otsego got hit real hard. My hard maple woods lost all leaves for two summers, and last summer maybe half. This year should be the end of the cycle. The flys the kill the caterpillars showed up last summer.
Beech have been sick now for 40 years with a bug and rarely reaches maturity. Same with elm. The new problems are the emerald ash borer that supposedly came to New York from Michigan. Also the Asian longhorn beetle from China. Thanks to the ash borer and longhorn I can no longer legally bring firewood from my Hamilton County land to Otsego County. In fact the entire state has a mile-limit on trucking firewood unless it's been certified to be kiln-dried.
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