Editor’s note: Story updated Aug. 1. A more than 150-year-old American elm tree at the University of Maine that was saved by pioneering research on Dutch elm disease and that inspired the establishment of a campus natural heritage fund has succumbed to rot in its trunk and will be removed from the Hitchner Hall landscape read more Loss of UMaine’s scientifically, historically significant Campana elm a springboard for reinvigorating Campus Natural Heritage Endowment Fund