My neighbor had this ash taken down a month ago as it had been in decline for 10+ years. I gave it a once over and didn't see any EAB then. But I saw this piece on his stack this morning with a little hole in it. Split off the bark to reveal the telltale tracks. It officially was 5 miles away. Now it's here for sure.
While I hate to "like" your post, you know what I mean........ NYCountry is right as far as getting your saw ready. I've got 25 acres full of dead and dying ones, with young ones still coming up all over ................... for now.................. just a matter of time before there won't be any new seeds hitting the ground here.
I feel your pain, it's already made it's way through here. One one hand I have about 10-15 standing dead ash trees on my property for the taking when I need them. On the other hand it's just sad that those little buggers leave such a path of destruction. I'm trying to look on the positive side, with the big ash tress dead it opens up more room for the hickory and oak trees I have to flourish. I prefer nut trees any day to bring in the wildlife.
we got hit about four or five years ago, i'm still finding dead ones or ones that will be dead in the next year or two, but there is still quite a few that survived, best i can tell, the borers moved on about two years ago........
All the varieties of ASH are PRIMO firewood IMHO!!! It tends to be a dry wood when cut "wet"; which is probably why its such a nice hardwood that can be seasoned in just 1 year after CSSing!!! I'll take it over Oak most any day!!!
Just last week they removed all restrictions on moving firewood between counties. It seems that all counties here now officially have the EAB so there is no longer any point to the restrictions. So far I have not seen EAB damage in my 25 years old planting but I guess it is just a matter of time.
Thats a real bummer, with all the technology in the world today and seems like nothing much can be done about them.
