This is true, usually by the time we are called the trees have been dead or dying for several years.
I have an unfounded theory I’d like you to test for me. Every single medium or large ash tree in my neck of the woods is completely dead, aside from one tree that got topped for the power lines 6 years ago, which was just a year or two before EAB started creeping in. The young shoots that sprouted out are still alive. It’s an ugly tree, but it’s the only ash standing that isn’t a sapling or hasn’t been juiced up.
Yes. I am going to be doing several experiments with the ash trees. I will make sure to give this one a go as well.
Here is my case study. They pretty much cut the entire canopy out of this lead- and we haven’t quite leafed out yet but looks like the topped lead is mostly alive, while the other stem crapped out sometime last year, finally.
Okay, got it. I will do my best to duplicate what you have there, and we shall see what happens.
Also your local Cigar, Cigars branch, they seem to be pretty well distributed around. Or order online at Cigars International.
Cigar International is where I get mine.
This will be a fun errand.
There doesn't seem to be any green ash in my neighborhood. One of my friends planted some about five years ago, but it all died the first year. May have been his doing and not the local, I don't know. But I understand that Duluth area is losing trees from the EAB, and that gets down into the 20 below range, even with the lake warmth. It would be grand if the 35-40 below kills it. But we have an abondance of Bronze wood bore here that kills the paper birches. Even the 60 below doesn't do anything to kill it off. This area use to be covered with 18 inch diameter birch. Now if you can get one past 4 inches before the BWB kill it you are doing well. It sort of hibernates in the tree until the tree is stressed by drought, then it goes to work. So every few years it wipes them out again, and again, and again. The Forest Circus came out with a birch that was supposed to be BWB resistant. I bought a couple hundred and planted them. The BWB killed them off the first drought. Made it about three years.
That's true, the peat bog / carbon cycling project at the Marcell Experimental Forest studies...peat bogs. True, some ash like wet feet perhaps, but this is more black spruce / alder habitat. EAB as well as Chestnut Blight and Dutch Elm disease are studied by my coworkers particularly in Delaware, OH (near Columbus). They continue to develop a better fundamental understanding of the creatures as well as work with state and tribal folks on EAB management. Me? I don't do much with bugs.
Most of my black ash have wet feet. They seem to thrive with wet feet. When the beaver built the dam and flooded about 15 acres of my ash swale, I thought they would be okay as the water only came up about a foot around their already 3-4 inches of water around their bases. I was wrong. All of those died. A bit too much water.
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