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thedickcavettshow · 5 months

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God there are always so many tree diseases and invasive insects from Europe that find their way to our noble yet defenseless North American trees and completely destroy them >:(

#All the gigantic beautiful ash trees we have on our campus are getting slaughtered by invasive emerald ash borers :(#And those ash trees were planted to replace the beautiful elms that were killed by Dutch elm disease #It’s sad. So many native species are become endangered because of foreign diseases/predators #Our native species get replaced with European species that are able to defend themselves against this stuff. This too is colonization

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