About the Yew1

[Eduard Selleslagh]

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> Actually there have been dramatic changes in tree populations and
> distributions over the last 8,000 years in Europe.  Perhaps the most
> surprising - discovered by the first British C-14  analyzers - was the almost
> complete and dramatically quick wipe-out of the elm about 3500BC.  At first
> attributed to neolithic farmers, it is now considered to have been the result
> of climatic changes -- observable also in the range of other species --
> causing perhaps a sudden susceptibility to disease.
[snip]
> Regards,
> Steve Long

[Ed Selleslagh]
In Belgium, most elms are disease-ridden (actually by a parasite) and in danger
of disappearance.

Ed.