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Ellis Kinney

Ellis Kinney

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I have lost all the Ash trees on my farm except one due to the Emerald Ash Borer. As everyone knows, it is a bug that gets between the bark and the wood of
the tree. An Ash tree has to be of a certain maturity for the bark to be thick enough for the bug to dig behind. The floor or carpet if you will of my 35
acres of woods is covered with 2 or 3 year old Ash seedlings. My Question---Do you think by the time the Ash trees develop thick bark in a few years the Ash Borers will have died
out, or will they hang around and kill the next batch of mature trees? Thanks, Ellis
 
maybe put some little no trespassing signs out. lol i think george fox has it summed up with no trespassing actually think it depends on the weather maybe cycle to.
 
If they don't feed on any other trees, they may starve to death before the little trees are big enough. Lets hope so anyway.
 
plus starting out with fresh trees be the best and dont think a person would want any old trees with the new stuff as then they will just move on over to the new ones. so if you have old trees there i would think its risky for the new trees. they can have there larve already in the old trees. there is supposed to be insecticide for these beetles also. its about the same deal as wild oats in my field, but i think my problem is worst.
 
Just showing up here in Tennessee . I have my own mill and my tie guy said if they were cut quick that they would still go for ties. Got several that look like they are not coming out this year .
 
I think the bugs will move to other trees. We have watched our Ash trees die this past two years. Sad to see them go, but at the same time, they were just trees growing up in property line fence rows. So they can become fire wood now, and stop shading the crop along the edges of the field.
 
Apparently there is some hope. The young trees may very well have some natural resistance, but it is hard to say as the life-cycle of a tree to maturity is a couple of decades at least. Ash trees are great firewood, have strong timber, and provide variety to the forest for wild animals.

The bug did a number on the trees, though. Only 13 of 1,762 in the study survived.

North American Forests have been hit hard in the last 100 years. Chestnut blight, Dutch elm disease, and now the Ash borer have knocked out the big hardwoods. Where I am, it's mostly only Maple and Oak that are left. If some bug shows up that destroys those two, we're hosed. We'd have nothing but scrub trees left.
ash tree study
 
That's too bad, all kinds of diseases seem to plague trees these days. Off topic a bit but there are 3 kinds of wood used for baseball bats .... birch, ash, and maple. Not sure what species of each kind is used, all have advantages and disadvantages according to this information below. When hockey sticks were made of wood (all are pretty much man made composite now), maple was apparently the choice for most of them. Good luck with your wood lot.
Wood for basebal bats .....
 
I think if possible I would remove all the old trees and dead fall and hope all the bugs died off. Not sure if it is a large area or a row, but you could even work up strips and let the new growth come up between. I think the bugs have been there before and the ones dying now came from the last infestation 75-100 years ago is my guess
 
We have a lot of ash in N MN, and they say if it gets to -40F for a couple of nights it might kill them, but that's probably not going to happen in your area! Ours are black ash, have very little value, used a little in papermaking, but now there is a surplus of better pulpwood.
 
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