Like the little girl in the movie said: "There here!" KTVZ: Destructive forest pest, the emerald ash borer, arrives in Oregon; public asked to report sightings. Destructive forest pest, the emerald ash borer, arrives in Oregon; public asked to report sightings - KTVZ
I'd be very interested to know how it arrived there. Some idiot transporting infested firewood hundreds of miles, or another infested shipment that came directly from the source, overseas. On Sunday I was at a graduation party and almost fell over when I spotted 2 large white ash trees full of leaves. They were surrounded by dozens of long-dead ones. To boot they were loaded with seeds, so hopefully whenever they succumb to EAB, their progeny will already be established. I really hope theses trees don't completely disappear from our forests.
Lost both of my specimen ash trees a few years ago despite our efforts (and annual applications of pesticide) to keep them healthy Broke my heart to cut them down. They are beautiful trees. Interesting, I have regrowth on both stumps that I'm leaving alone to see what happens. There isn't one live ash anywhere around here, the woodlots are full of dead ones. We had the last remaining live ones. Even the local ag extension department was monitoring ours but they eventually succumbed despite our best efforts. The way I understand it, the Emerald ash borer came in, in wood that was used for shipping pallets from foreign countries.
One they arrive and infest a few trees, there is no stopping them. You can apply pesticide but it only slows the ultimate destruction down.
Not even any young saplings left in your area? We still have plenty of small ones despite being infested for over a decade.
Some regrowth, yes but it will take decades for them to mature, if they do. Kind of like my regrowth. We have other invasive species here too and most of them came from ignorant people not paying attention to what they were doing. The ash borer is a tiny bug that reeks havoc on ash trees and it was all preventable if humans just did what they should have done in the first place.
Hard to believe but i wouldve had the same reaction. Most of the "living" ones i see are partly dead with leafless limbs or small saplings. Maybe there is hope. What town Eric?
Same here, I see saplings and the occasional dead tree that has stump sprouted. There's probably 2 dozen growing just over the property line behind my house, ranging from 1-10' tall. The large healthy ones I saw on Sunday were 2 towns away from me in Harwinton. That area was hit hard early on too. I remember my buddy's ash trees started dying probably 8 years ago now.
A healthy looking ash tree may already be infested with the ash borer larvae. It could be as long as 5 years after the first bugs are found before the damage is noticeable in a healthy, large tree. The only ash left on my place are a handfull of blue ash. For whatever reason, blue ash is the last tree they will infest. And if there plenty of white and green ash around they won't touch the blue. There is a lot of research going on to understand why the blues are unaffected and how to incorporste those trates into healthy white and green ash stock in hopes of developing a resistant strain of ash. Good luck with that.
Same here...I see quite a few young ones...seems like they are safe up to about 6-8" diameter. I have several on my lil 2 acres...the largest one is probably 20' tall and 4-5" diam.
I went to a coworker’s house today to help him load up a dead scag. First thing I noticed when I got there was 2 dead ash in his woods. He has a boiler so I pointed them out.Didn’t know they were so prevalent in the woods until they were dead.
Yup. I noticed the leafless skeleton trees roadside a few years ago. Kinda hard to miss when your a tree nerd like me and its Summer. I had a grove of dead ones here i took down last Winter. Left one as it looked it might still be living and maybe put out leaves. Nope. Ill take it down in the Fall.
