EAB: How to be pro-active

[treevet]

Royce,

Looking over the horizon is a good place to start. I didn't realize that was what you're planning. Good luck!

The plan here in Minneapolis is to have all of the ash on City property gone within about 7-8 years.

Smart and not lose any growth years from replacement trees hopefully.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Mike,

The term we're using, I don't know who made it up, is 'blonding'. Very apt description.

Like a lot of diagnoses from a distance I'm careful about using it as the sole reason for marking for removal. It does draw my eye and then I can usually see the wood pecker excavations or the year-old 'lesions' from cambium damage caused by the borers when the tree callusing over the wounds. These lesions look a lot like what happens in oaks when the spore mats for oak wilt form in the spring.

 

[treevet]

What Dunlap's city is doing is the right thing. But be ready for many homeowners to (rightfully) refuse to let the eab have their key trees. If you are a private company like I believe you are Royce, it is hard to be the big public tree savior and besides it is not hardly possible to be both...the public tree savior and the private tree savior (read you get paid for this). Only so many hours in a day. You will be buried in td's in no time and make a nice little profit keeping your reg. client's private valued ash alive. Nothing unscrupulous about this. I don't do anything like a huge company would but I believe we have put in about 3 cases ($1000. ea. retail) of Imicide this year.

Never heard the term "blonding" before.

 

[ROYCE]

Treevet, we need to sit down and have a beer sometime. I think I could learn a lot from you. I think a lot of the ways you do. How long you been running your business? I am on year two

 

[treevet]

Thanks Royce, I love to help as I have gained so much from forums. My 46th year and shooting for at least 60. I will go ROOT beer tho buddy. Part of my longevity is dropping the happy juice

 

[KYAPLE]

Good for you Treevet!

 

[treehumper]

Don't rely on traps. They did that along the Delaware to monitor the threat from PA. Nothing in the traps then 4 findings of them well across the river. Keep on top of the reports and tracking.

 

[mattwisconsin]

The picture I attached is from 1 season of Tree-Age treatments in 1 municipality (there were more bottles that were already triple rinsed and gone from the shop, along with our private customers as well).

Anyone saying that we should start removing, replanting, and diversifying is spot on, as much as it pains me to say.

It completely changes the urban landscape in a bad way, but this is an issue that will be much harder and much, much more expensive than many people realize. Just my young opinion!

 

[Crash]

The picture I attached is from 1 season of Tree-Age treatments in 1 municipality (there were more bottles that were already triple rinsed and gone from the shop, along with our private customers as well).

Anyone saying that we should start removing, replanting, and diversifying is spot on, as much as it pains me to say.

It completely changes the urban landscape in a bad way, but this is an issue that will be much harder and much, much more expensive than many people realize. Just my young opinion!

I'm not too in the up and up in NH but I've heard rumors there's a Huge ash eradication brewing. I'll share some of this at my next conservation meeting.