"When you live a long time with trees, they become a part of you. It pained me to take down the old sugar maple, my arboreal cathedral, one rafter at a time, for her demise resulted from a hidden underground fungus rather than a visible fire."
"In her old age, she reached about 90 feet high. She was a tree with a personality—quirky, with a trunk that had split into four and branches that splayed this way and that, coping with aging as best she could."
"Climate change probably made her more susceptible to the fungus, armillaria. And she's not the only tree stressed on the farm; ash trees are being decimated by the emerald ash borer, and native dogwoods are dying of anthracnose."
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