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Tree Pests, Past Weather Events Combine to Damage Elms in Southeast Colorado
LA JUNTA, Colo. – Elm trees in southeast Colorado are having a bad year. On the heels of years of drought, which already had reduced overall tree health, they are suffering from a one-two punch of a dramatic temperature decline last November, damaging trees that had not yet gone dormant.