31.   The mailings that I created caused more trees to be killed than even Paul Bunyan and his blue ox could have handled.

32.   The rain has flooded drainage canals and left water standing in many groves, causing the fruit to fall before ripening and threatening to kill the trees.

33.   The reason for the concern is that the beetles bore holes in tree trunks, removing chunks of bark with their jaws and ultimately killing the trees.

34.   The State Department of Environmental Conservation is carrying out an emergency study to determine what is killing the tree, which is also called Ailanthus altissima.

35.   The technique originated centuries ago in Europe out of the need to harvest firewood without killing a tree.

36.   Then it can be hot enough to penetrate the bark and kill the trees.

37.   There, they strip the manna gum eucalyptus trees they favor, eventually killing the trees.

38.   These were once dense woods, but even the Soviet army had to move its tanks and find new camouflage as the foul air killed the tree cover.

39.   This newly discovered beetle kills trees.

40.   Until very recently, the disease was present at low levels and did not kill trees.