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Remove large Elm tree and wooden cage in front of Lincoln Home and replace with small, slow-growing Elm tree.
Lincoln Home National Historic Site » Remove large Elm tree and wooden cage in front of Lincoln Home and replace with small, slow-growing Elm tree. » Document List
For this replacement, the park will work with Morton Arboretum outside Chicago to acquire a slow-growing, disease-resistant Elm tree, possibly "Ulmus 'Frontier'". The park will also attempt to donate the larger tree to the city Park District to avoid disturbing ground in the park that has not had an archeological survey. Finally, the decision was made to not replace the wooden cage as it does not appear in historic photographs of the landscape. The larger tree will be removed in Autumn 2020, but the new tree may not be planted until the spring to ensure the optimal planting schedule.