For the elm ... Citizens! Video This campaign, sponsored by the Federation of Clubs Know and Protect Nature (FCPN) and CPN-Cuenca Ecologists in Action, whose aim is the reintroduction of the missing figure of the native elm in the village square of Cuenca province, with the sponsorship of the Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, through VOLCAM, has already traveled eight municipalities of La Mancha in Cuenca.
Pozoamargo, Uclés, Casas de Fernando Alonso Cervera del Llano, Garcimuñoz Castle, Villares del Saz, the flint and Pedroñeras already have an elm from a variety resistant to DED in its streets or squares, in spaces provided by local councils who have taken part.
The activity has been eminently popular, involving almost 200 people, mostly children and teachers in rural schools in the area, and has developed over the month of October .
Participants were also able to enjoy the exhibition of the season ... A Citizens' trees! and get the same publications in the information tables are installed.
During the first week of November, the campaign will tour Montalbo and Tarancón.
"At Olmos ... Citizens!" seeks to reintroduce the figure of the elm in the center of large squares and streets where there is still space occupied by the old elm disease killed by DED (Ophiostoma novo-ulmi). To do this, use a variety of the disease-resistant elm, and equally resistant to soil and climatic conditions. In addition, the external appearance of the variety of resistant elm is exactly like the common elm, and their growth, color and leaf shape, and shadow that are identical to those of the old elm tree, so that social acceptance is very high, and there were no differences between the variety of elm and elm resistant common.
The resistant elm, Ulmus known in nurseries as Nangan "Lutece" is a cross between various species of native English and European elms, and has been tested for 20 years until its commercialization in the 2002. "
