same here: lots of dead elm from the disease. Much is standing and dry and bark free, hence does not spread the beetle/fungis.
I very rarely get oak.
I like elm. Burns well. good long heat. As it burns it burns deep into itself until if looks like a red hot block of jello, sort of translucent and pretty in the glass doors.
Nasty to split. Not super tough, but very stringy, fight it to the end. Many box store splitters with moving wedge stop 2 inches short of the end plate. I have made three or four sets of spacer bars so bars overlap the end of the wedge. Shortens the clear space by 2 inches, but since most are 24 cylinders and I cut 16 to 18 inch, doesn't matter. Otherwise every single block has to be pried apart by hand as the last inch of fiber holds it together.. Fixed wedge design, just send another block through behind it I guess.
I'd take all I can get.
kcj