List, How about a third fuzzy recollection of the elms. I grew up in Ticonderoga and remember them spraying the trees. Your mother kept you in the house for an hour or so afterwards becasue the trees dripped for that long. I do not recall ever seeing the bands on the trees, maybe that was an area thing. Just the spraying and the taking down of the ones that didn't make it. I remember the grownups being slightly annoyed that the spray was not "user friendly" to paint on porches, houses or automobiles. Guess that should have ben a preview as to what Agent Orange would be like. Rolland Miner Director NWDB Survey 2000 http://nwdb2000.homestead.com/home.html [log in to unmask]