Posted by Dave41A on May 19, 2021 at 11:39:40 from (71.161.67.127):
In Reply to: ash trees posted by Ellis Kinney on May 19, 2021 at 09:34:35:
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.
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