Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Ash trees are about gone
Bill Tindall, E.Tn.
The Emerald Ash Beetle is moving east through eastern TN and south from Virginia. There are still places in the southern Appalachian Mts where the ash are not yet killed. If you want to build from ash in the future time is short to lay in a lifetime supply. They kill the trees by eating the inner bark which cuts off the tree top from water and nutrients, as seen in the picture. All the trees on our farm are dead or dying.
Re: Ash trees are about gone
Hank Knight
Our hickory trees are under attack from a similar beetle. One day they're fine; two days later the leaves are wilted and the bark is coming off in great slabs.
Re: Ash trees are about gone
Mark Hennebury
So sad to see;
We have lost a lot up this way in and around Ottawa, Ontario since it arrived here in 2008.
Beech trees as well.
Jim Dillon
I read several months ago that something unknown (at that time) was killing the beech trees in northeastern Ohio. Sad. Huge, magnificent ash trees in Maryland/Virginia are being cut down to try and minimize the spread.
More bad news
Tom Dunlap
Dang...I started my career with Dutch Elm Disease and Oak Wilt. Ended it with Emerald Ash Borer. Now I read about Beech trees!!!
Dr. John Ball SDSU professor did some data mining to show trees of the world and what sort of disease or insects kill them in their native biomes. Many trees have been imported and cultivated as urban trees outside their biome. When that happened those killers seem to find them and there is devastation. Another thing that's happened is that we import bugs and diseases into a biome where they aren't native and the native trees haven't got an immunity. DED is an example of the that. EAB came into Detroit/Windsor from suspected skids or packing material from China. No predator here...yet. USDA and land grant colleges are working on some gnat that kill the EAB. Lets hope. Until then...no hope for woodland ash. Insecticide treatments are effective but not cost effective outside the urban forest.
Like Bill said...get the wood you might want now. Big ash trees are likely not going to be around for a while. Ash lumber is cheap now too.
Re: More bad news
Barry Irby
EAB, DED, Thousand Cankers, Wooly Adelgids killing hemlocks, Oak wilt,....What's left? Universities and Forest Service hurry up.
Re: More bad news
Tom Dunlap
Yes...we need more science and research. The benefits outweigh the costs.
Get the wood you need know?
Dick Coers
Then you'll have some of my problems. Too much wood to ever use in my remaining years, no room to walk around in the shop around the piles of lumber, and powder post beetle infestation of farm shed stored wood before I ever heard of Timbor.
I thought I was stocking up for retirement. Finding out I don't like working that hard anymore. Prefer cycling now!
Re: More bad news something with walnut also??
New Quarantine
Mark Mandell - Gone Round In New Jersey
For Bucks county PA, surrounding area and 5 counties in West-central New Jersey are under restrictions due to discovery of Spotted Wing Lanternfly, another Asian import.
In New Jersey we're also fighting a serious outbreak of Tulip Poplar blight
Walnut
Tom Dunlap
Thousand canker disease
Troublesome tree issues
Re: Ash trees are about gone
Don Stephan
And the supposedly learned response is fewer business restrictions and regulations so more wood pallets and crates can circulate the country and the world.
Sad . . .
Re: Ash trees are about gone
Jim DeLaney, Austintown, Ohio
Ash trees have been virtually wiped out here in NE Ohio,
Thousand Canker disease is also killing our walnut trees.
I've heard about, but haven't seen, new diseases/parasites that are killing beech and poplar trees, too.
So far, the oaks, cherry, and maples are okay.
Re: Hickory beetle update
Hank Knight
One of our reputable arborists examined my hickory trees yesterday and gave me good news. They are not infested with the beetles that killed my neighbor's hickories. We decided to spray the trunks of the hickories and pines in my yard with bifenthrin as a preventative measure. The tree service sprayed them this morning, so my trees should be safe - I hope - from the current threat. Now all I have to do is worry about the hurricane blowing them over. Several of my neighbors are having their trees sprayed too, so maybe this will contain the beetle threat.