I recently posted about what kind of wood was this and i was told it is EAB ash. Should I be concerned with bringing this home? Its from 4 miles away
Everyone, other than OldSpark told you to take it home and use it from your original post. Take it home, cut it, split it, burn it. Quick drying and easy to split.
4 miles I would not be concerned. Especially if it shows no damage. A D shaped hole down low is the telltale sign.
I concur with the others here. Go ahead and take it. I read a while back that unassisted, EAB infestations migrate naturally on average about 20 miles per year. You're well within that threshold so I wouldn't worry about making the problem worse. Edit ~ read 20 different articles about EAB and get 20 different opinions on how far it spreads every year.
Is there an alternative? If you don't bring it home the EAB will still continue to spread. Might as well burn it.
generally by the time someone notices a problem with an ASH, they are about 3 or 4 years behind the original infestation. little buggers got wings and fly on wind as well. so theyy can and have gone a long way in a short amount of time.
I called my nearest State Forester (DNR) before I transported dead ash. In the midwest, ash restrictions are by county so it is against the rules to transport EAB wood into a county that does not have EAB otherwise known as being under a "quarantine". You could check online for the rules.
I was just wondering what other people thought the EAB, there is a tree guy 4 miles from that is bringing home a lot of EAB ash (countless number) and has been for a while, i have not got it yet
Thats were the problem started, parks have bad around here due to people bringing in camp fire wood, it spread it much quicker.
Yeah I've been cutting the dead ones on my lot to hopefully slow the spread. I look at it this way if I just leave it to rot the EAB will move on to the other healthy trees so might as well burn it.
I've got a few ash trees, and they are all dead now. So are all of my neighbors trees, and all the neighborhood ash are dead. I've never brought ash home. The neighbors two ash that he had professionally treated every year, are in my stacks, as well as all but 3 of my ash trees. Those 3 remaining trees will be coming down and going into my stacks too. If it's within 20 miles there's really not much hope The only real hope is for ash to somehow gain immunity, or the ash borer dies off or has something that will eat them.
In Wisconsin, they lifted the county quarantine a couple of years ago because it had already spread. You can't move it out of the state though.
A lot of open fields here, its wipe out the ash trees in a couple of towns 20 miles from me years ago but so far it has not arrived here.
