Ash trees infected with the emerald ash borer

[anlrolfe]

I'm afraid that if land owners don't aggressively cut the dead standing EAB debris that we'll be one spark away from a Gatlinburg style indecent when things get hot and dry one summer.

 

[Marine5068]

Man we are really being hit hard with the ash borer here in Pa. , I have 50 trees affected with the bark falling off in just a small area around me, its a real shame to see them all die , we are also losing are Hemlock trees .On the up side its going to make alot of good firewood but Im afraid its going to go to waste before it can all be used . I've heard it turns punky pretty fast if not cut and put under roof , you guys that have seen all of this going on for a while now what have you found if there left standing , how many years before there soft and punky .

millions of them dead or dying in North America now. Toronto boulevards were typically planted with green or black ash trees and last I heard there were over 860,000 ash trees in the GTA removed because of the EAB, with 50,000 more in parks and 32,000 on street boulevards to be removed and that was way back in 2014.

 

[cantoo]

This way my selling point to have my neighbour let me cut trees on his property. I'm willing to do it for free now, some day you might have to pay someone to do it and then have a huge fire hazard. Bush is surrounded by 300 acres of ripe wheat or corn and I'll bet by then that Insurance companies will not be paying out fire claims due to dead trees/brush either. I cut a bunch of 18" or so ash in the dry section of the bush a few weeks ago and of the 8 that I cut 4 or 5 shattered at the top about 6 or 8" diameter when they hit the ground. Saved me some trimming but cost me some wood. Makes me think I had better speed up my cutting in the drier sections of the bush.

 

[DFK]

Have any of you guys seen "NEW" Ash trees replacing the ones that are dying???

David

 

[AT sawyer]

It doesn't seem to take long for the bark to get loose once they're dead. Peels off pretty easy. This mix of ash and maple was on the ground about a year. Clean and solid.

 

[CaseyForrest]

Have any of you guys seen "NEW" Ash trees replacing the ones that are dying???

David

Yes, surprisingly enough coming out of the same rootmass. I posted a few pictures in another thread earlier this year. Some of the dead standing we are cutting now have new shoots on them.

 

[Marine5068]

Have any of you guys seen "NEW" Ash trees replacing the ones that are dying???

David

I read somewhere or saw something on tv that they're genetically working on growing Ash trees that are more resistant to the EAB.

 

[alleyyooper]

I have lots of new 24 to 36 inch shoots coming up from all those seeds that fell as the trees were dying.

Al

 

[DFK]

That is good to hear. I sure hope those new shoots make it.
It would be a shame if the Ash Tree went the way of the Chestnut and Elm.

David

 

[CaseyForrest]

Found one of the pictures I took earlier this year.


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[polerpoker]

We are south of columbus Ohio. 2013-2014 I have a 1 acre grove of trees on my lot i figure maybe 100 nice woods mostly Ash. Just moving here i had heard of the AB and figured it would come eventually, summer of 2015 i saw a bug trap on one of our trees some one stuck on there and figured that cant be good. Fall and summer of 2016 wood peckers everywhere.... last fall I went with a spray can and marked all the dead trees in case I wanted to start logging them for fire wood in the winter, I counted 72 dead almost the entire woods, every single ash tree is dead. I figured I would let them stand and cut at my leisure, two months ago over a 3 week period 3 of them fell over the road. Luckily I was able to persuade the county to come help me fell/push about 12 of them over onto our property to avoid a accident. what I have found is most are rotten from the stump up to about 8'. I have laid logs parallel on the ground and stacked the other logs on top to at least keep them in the air hopefully they wont continue to rot, I have given some away to friends but i looks like I have a major log splitting bucking beer drinking to undertake. I am trying to talk the ole lady into letting the lot go natural instead of mowing this summer to see what pops up.

 

[CaseyForrest]

Here's one of the piles of ash that was dead standing.

I normally cut the stump off and most of the flare, but even the flare had good wood in it.


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[thumbilly]

That is good to hear. I sure hope those new shoots make it.
It would be a shame if the Ash Tree went the way of the Chestnut and Elm.

David

I have hope I personally am seeing a huge come back of elm it seems like they're everywhere around here and almost all alive and getting big. I've even come across some live ash recently too. Even though it's been over a decade here since EAB hit. They're saying now there's something killing the maples nearby.

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[alleyyooper]

We have a lot of Elm growing here, they only get to be between 8" and 12" in Dia before they die off again. A few will get bigger but most don't.

Al

 

[thumbilly]

We have a lot of Elm growing here, they only get to be between 8" and 12" in Dia before they die off again. A few will get bigger but most don't.

Al

Yeah I've seen lots of them getting up over 24" and still alive I've cut more live elms out of my way or off fence rows than I have dead lately. Where abouts in michigan are you I'm in the thumb.

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[Rockjock]

millions of them dead or dying in North America now. Toronto boulevards were typically planted with green or black ash trees and last I heard there were over 860,000 ash trees in the GTA removed because of the EAB, with 50,000 more in parks and 32,000 on street boulevards to be removed and that was way back in 2014.

Having been to the meetings about the EAB in Toronto and supplying saws to several outfit that won the bid to remove them I can tell you they are all slated to be removed. The EAB causes the tree to become weak and they can and have collapsed. Toronto is STILL recovering from the ice storm of 2014 so that clean up slowly still going on. The only way to be rid of the EAB is to starve them out. New shoots get infected. Sad but it maybe the end for this species for a while.