Trees to Fall: Like the elms before them, ash trees on WFU's main quad dying from disease
(By Mary Giunca, Winston-Salem Journal) - They sheltered students during orientation picnics.
They warmed the autumn campus with their purplish-brown leaves.
And they lent their stately limbs to the flying of toilet paper banners after great team victories.
But yesterday, 10 mighty Autumn Purple ash trees on Wake Forest University's quad fell to chain saws.
The chopped-down trees represent the beginning of a three-year plan to replace the roughly 30 ash trees on the quad, now called Hearn Plaza, with three varieties of maples.
The first round of maples will be planted Jan. 5.
They warmed the autumn campus with their purplish-brown leaves.
And they lent their stately limbs to the flying of toilet paper banners after great team victories.
But yesterday, 10 mighty Autumn Purple ash trees on Wake Forest University's quad fell to chain saws.
The chopped-down trees represent the beginning of a three-year plan to replace the roughly 30 ash trees on the quad, now called Hearn Plaza, with three varieties of maples.
The first round of maples will be planted Jan. 5.
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