The invasive emerald ash borer, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was first found in the United States in southeast Michigan in 2002. In the decades since, the wood-boring beetle has ...

Recent media about emerald ash borer has increased the number of questions I’ve received about this borer and if area trees need to be treated now. Recent warm weather has also increased calls about ...

The insect threatens the health and survival of the black ash tree. In northern Wisconsin, April Stone is carrying on a centuries-old Ojibwe practice of basket making. She uses wood from the black ash ...

Winter isn’t the ideal season for pruning trees in Upstate New York, but it’s the best time to cut scion or twigs from ash trees in parts of the state where the species has been all but wiped out.

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. In 2009, an invasive tree pest was discovered on an ash tree in St. Paul. This ...

A Cornell and Nature Conservancy 'Trees in Peril' conservation project is propagating ash trees resistant to emerald ash borer. If successful, the long-term project looks to reintroduce resistant ...