In northern Wisconsin, April Stone is carrying on a centuries-old Ojibwe practice of basket making. She uses wood from the black ash tree, a cultural keystone species that's now under threat from ...

CARBONDALE — Carl Meinecke sidles up to an ash tree and wraps a tape measure around the trunk, gathering both circumference and diameter in one move. “Diameter is 17.9 inches,” Carbondale ...

Figure 2. This photo illustration shows three ash trees in Bloomington, Indiana, with different levels of canopy lost to the emerald ash borer. (Purdue Tree Doctor app illustration/Cliff Sadof) While ...

One of the most destructive tree pests in North America has reached all 99 counties in Iowa. Emerald ash borer is an invasive beetle that attacks and kills ash trees. The adults eat leaves while ...

There’s a tree killer on the loose in Oregon, and nobody knows how to stop it. An invasive green beetle called the emerald ash borer arrived in the Midwest from Asia, and it’s killed over 100 ...

Emerald ash borer has been found for the first time in Meeker, Murray, Otter Tail and Wadena counties, and in new areas of Carlton County, according to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture.

It could be years before emerald ash borers find your tree, Shaw said, which then take several years to die after being infested. Observations from the eastern United States, where the beetle was ...

Homeowner tree removal vs treatment. Suppose you had ash tree that was whose trunk diameter was 30 inches. If you were to have that tree and its stump removed, the cost could easily be $1800. If an ...

This undated photo shows the side view of an adult emerald ash borer. The invasive beetle is native to Asia and has killed more than 100 million ash trees in the U.S. since its arrival in 2002. It ...

For an ash tree that’s not in great condition, is poorly located or is old enough that it’s probably in the twilight of its life anyway, the better choice might be to remove it.