This is the tallest tree on campus, standing at an impressive 85 feet. The elm towers on the North side of Mead Chapel. This elm makes up our collection of elms that is the largest, density-wise, in the entire world and the second largest collection in the Northeast. Middlebury actively seeks to maintain its abundance of elms despite the rampant and destructive Dutch elm disease. Parsons and his team works to inject the elms every three years to prevent losing these trees, though the campus and the town lost much of their elm population a few decades ago.
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