Ash trees became newsworthy when the emerald ash borer, a wood-boring beetle accidentally introduced in this country from east Asia around 1998, started threatening billions of ash trees nationwide.

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 ...

Before long, they'll kill nearly the entire ash tree population in the region, which account for about 15 percent of our trees. Gruzska: "Could be millions of trees in Allegheny County." ...

Now that the emerald ash borer is here, an untreated ash tree will eventually be a dead ash tree. For Jim Knutson of Sioux Falls, a green ash tree in his yard isn’t just any old tree.

The Emerald ash borer has been moving through Maine for several years, decimating ash trees in its path, and the invasive insect shows no signs of stopping. The beetle attacks ash trees from the ...

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 ...

"Ash tree species likely will survive emerald ash borer beetles, but just barely." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 10 September 2019. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 09 / 190909170754.htm>.

Above: bark borers attacked and killed this evergreen tree. Photo by John E. Woodmansee Occasionally, homeowners will notice small holes in the trunks of landscape trees. This may not mean impending ...

For a non-toxic evergreen tree, try growing Arbutus unedo, or the strawberry tree. The strawberry tree is native to the Mediterranean and can be grown from US hardiness zone 7 plus. This tree will ...