"In December, trees are dormant. But the people who live with them are still active, thinking over the events of the past year and making plans for the year to come.

Winnipeg’s urban forest has been challenged over the past year. First, the trees faced drought conditions for much of the summer and record amounts of precipitation in September, followed by a catastrophic Colorado Low storm in October that damaged or destroyed tens of thousands of trees.

In December, I got an email with the subject line: "Ash’s Elm?"

Ash Raichura is an engineer who works for the City of Winnipeg; his latest file is the pilot composting program. He lives in Armstrong’s Point and he wanted to tell me about an elm tree on the riverbank behind his property."

—My latest Favourite Tree column was in Saturday's Winnipeg Free Press.

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