[Mpls] Forest for the Trees

[Steve Brandt]

Telling me that my city is lost 4,000 elms last year, as the Star
Tribune did this morning, is just part of the story.  So is telling me
that the city cumulatively has lost 130,000, as the 2001 State of the
City does.  Is that 50 percent?  75 percent?  95 percent?  A cursory
search of the city's web site doesn't answer the question of about how
many elms remain.  It's not in the urban forest policy, for example. 
Does anyone out there have a reliable estimate?  

Steve Brandt
Kingfield