Ash borer

[welderskelter]

Anybody hear anymore about the ash borer and its travels? I hate to lose all my young ash trees.

[moodnacreek]

Here in nys the eab has been through and killed the ash a few years back. Now I see the 3"+- stump suckers dying.

[dgdrls]

Its ugly in Upstate NY as well

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[alan gage]

We're in the norhern tier of Iowa counties and supposedly they have them in the neighboring Minnesota counties so I assume we do as well. I haven't paid attention to whether or not it's been officially recorded here.

The bark was peeling from most of my ash logs this spring and they are covered with borer tracks but I didn't see any of 'D' shaped holes that are supposed to be indicative of the emerald borer, just round and oval.

Plenty of sickly rotten ash trees but I don't know that the number is any higher than normal. They don't seem to be dying off in droves yet.

Alan

[D6c]

It's been sweeping through southern  Iowa over the last couple of years.  I've logged some of my ash but need to be getting after more before they're dead and dangerous to cut.

[Oddman]

Im in southern Missouri and theyve arrived here in our woods. Still some live trees but they dont look like they will make it more than a year or 2.

[DesertHobo]

Western/upstate NY. Mine were hit, need to take them down this Summer.

If damage isn't severe, are trees ok to mill?

[HemlockKing]

Hopefully it just hurry's up with the sweep and just eradicates itself already(it's killing its only food source), at this point, it's gonna cross the whole continent, hopefully have it die off, so we can start planting beautiful ash again

[terrifictimbersllc]

Ash down everywhere I go in CT.  Doesnt hurt lumber.  Makes squiggly lines on natrural edge under bark.

[Wattwood]

Western/upstate NY. Mine were hit, need to take them down this Summer.

If damage isn't severe, are trees ok to mill?

The trees mill up just fine. The damage is limited to just under the bark from the EAB. Once dead though the clock starts ticking with ash before they start to deteriorate.

...a monumental loss to our woodlands.

[tmbrcruiser]

Last year was the first time I saw signs on the Delmarva Peninsula and now I see it many stand of ash. 

[cutterboy]

Trees are still good here, at least mine are. However there have been borers found in this state. I have been cutting a lot of ash for firewood the last two years and need to log out the big trees.

[zippski]

All the ash have been basically wiped out across southern Ontario by 2019 on a scale rivalling Chestnut Blight.  Unlike the CB (which is a persistent fungus), I hope that the lack of food source for the borers means there will be some ongoing regeneration potential, similar to Elms. There are lots of stump sprouts and some young new growth already appearing, but virtually everything of saw log size has been completely killed off.

Rarely smaller ash up to around 6" seem to be able to survive an attack by growing new cambium underneath the existing dead bark.  These take the form of hidden "veins" of live growth crawling up the trunk which you can see by peeling off some of the scaling bark.  It seems to work to keep the tree alive by forming a kind of connection to keep sap flowing to the upper tree.  Whether they will survive long term is still in question.  I have one of these in my yard, and so far, so good three years later.

I cut about 150 trees out of our 10 acres of bush on the home farm this past winter (some up to nearly 40" DBH and 60' to the first branches). I wish I would have done it two years ago. Much of it will still make some fine lumber, but probably about 20% of it has started to show signs of dry rot.

Leigh
zippski

[welderskelter]

The white ash and the black ash both have a different bark on them. Was wondering if both of them are killed with the  EAB. Anybody know?