The Eastern Hemlock tree has often been described as the Redwood of the East.

In the 1950s, a small organism appeared in Richmond, Virginia, called the Hemlock woolly adelgid.

I came to tell boy Socrates here that the Baltimore Herald is opposed to Hemlock, and will provide a lawyer.

The Eastern Hemlock forest is being considered in some ways the last fragments of primeval rainforest east of the Mississippi River.

It made a trans species jump out of some other organism in Asia, where it was living on Hemlock trees in Asia.

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

When it moved into its new host, the Eastern Hemlock tree, it escaped its predators, and the new tree had no resistance to it.

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock

And in the last two to three summers, these invasive organisms, this kind of Ebola of the trees, as it were, has swept through the primeval Hemlock forest of the east, and has absolutely wiped it out. I climbed there this past summer.

Sleeping within my orchard, my custom always in the afternoon, upon my quiet hour thy uncle stole with juice of cursed hemlock in a vial and in the porches of my ears did pour the leperous distilment, whose effect holds such an enmity with blood of man

And what we're seeing is not just the potential death of the Eastern Hemlock species that is to say, its extinction from nature due to this invading parasite but we're also seeing the death of an incredibly complex ecosystem for which these trees are merely the substrate for the aerial labyrinth of the sky that exists in their crowns.