The emerald ash borer, an invasive pest that kills ash trees, has been detected in 13 Vermont counties and is still spreading. But towns often don’t have the budget, or the guidance, to address it.

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 ...

The city says it can cost $1,500 or more to hire a contractor to remove an ash tree. "I'm booking out about two months right now, and I'd say 90% of my work is ash trees," said Michael Meyer ...

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 ...

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 ...

The invasive emerald ash borer, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was first found in the United States in southeast Michigan in 2002. In the decades since, the wood-boring beetle ...

The bad news: the Emerald Ash Borer has been discovered in Littleton. This pint-size insect can cause king-size problems for ash trees, which represent 15% of Littleton's trees.

According to Michigan state, where emerald ash borer was first detected in 2002, over 99% of ash trees attacked by the insect have died. That’s alarming, because in many regional communities, 25 ...

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 ...

Jun. 27—WRENSHALL — The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has quarantined Carlton County after discovering infestations of an invasive ash-tree killing beetle across the southeastern portion ...

Braik's Tree Removal employees work to cut limbs off a dying tree on Lakeview Street in Centralia. The city of Centralia’s streets have been lined with ash trees for generations. But now, a small ...

Minneapolis and Hennepin County residents should soon have access to $18 million in federal funding to help low-income homeowners remove and replace trees infested with the emerald ash borer.