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That's always the way. Short term profits for a few a******s and millions lost by everyone else. Typical, especially these days.
Yes, the Emerald Ash Borer is native to Asia. The epicenter of its release was in southeast Michigan...and it was most likely brought over in the wood of shipping pallets. It has totally wiped out the ash trees in southern Michigan. Even though Michigan has a ban on moving firewood, people have transported the pest into the northern Lower Peninsula and even into the Upper Peninsula...so it's only a matter of time until there are no mature ash trees in the state, or in most other states, too.
EAB was first spotted in the Twin Cities in 2009 in St Paul and in Minneapolis in 2010. It has since moved into the northern suburbs moving east to west. It has also been found in Winona and Houston counties to the south and has recently been found in Superior, Wisconsin next door to Duluth. The Minnesota counties have been placed under a quarantine and it is illegal to move firewood out of these counties but that's probably just one of those laws that doesn't apply to everyone.
There was some reports that the prolonged cold-snap this winter, where temperatures dipped into the -20's at night for stretches at a time could knock the population back but the arborist I work with said this summer that the EAB was not really affected at all. We treat our trees with an annual soil injection (Imidacloprid) at the cost of $40/tree.
Well, the CDC has a hotline where you can call in epidemics, even suicide epidemics. Is there no place you can call to alert the authorities who may not be looking for it yet that they have EAB? The county agent or anything?
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Well, the CDC has a hotline where you can call in epidemics, even suicide epidemics. Is there no place you can call to alert the authorities who may not be looking for it yet that they have EAB? The county agent or anything?
Depends on the area, but in lots of places County Extension is for that, or if there is a DNR / FWS, the forestry department, or in some place the agricultural agency in the state.
We're turning our forests into junk so we can fill our homes with cheap junk from Asia. We're really a very stupid and short sighted species.
State forestry departments will look into EAB if you call them. They can be a bit short in resources to handle everything. There are traps out to detect EAB in states like VT and ME, but they do take time to detect them if present. The ash are pretty well doomed anyways at this point. I think the only hope is to eradicate the pest after they've eradicated the mature ash and keep them out afterwards. If we get lucky they might starve themselves out.
We're turning our forests into junk so we can fill our homes with cheap junk from Asia. We're really a very stupid and short sighted species.
State forestry departments will look into EAB if you call them. They can be a bit short in resources to handle everything. There are traps out to detect EAB in states like VT and ME, but they do take time to detect them if present. The ash are pretty well doomed anyways at this point. I think the only hope is to eradicate the pest after they've eradicated the mature ash and keep them out afterwards. If we get lucky they might starve themselves out.
We are not doing this. The idiots who created trade laws that favor Chinese products are. The overwhelming majority of American I know want to buy products made in America.
We are not doing this. The idiots who created trade laws that favor Chinese products are. The overwhelming majority of American I know want to buy products made in America.
Figure of speech. I've been working hard to avoid the junk for years. So have others. But there are a lot of people who really don't care, they're too absorbed in the consumerist mindset.
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[SIZE=3]Ash decline; a disease of yet unknown causes has beenkilling Ash for years. Research leans towards ozone as one culprit. Being asfar north as you are I doubt the cause of the ash death was Emerald Ash Borer.But please don’t move firewood. [/SIZE][SIZE=3]Emerald ash borer will be with you soon along with otherinvasive species. The worst of all would be Asian Longhorned Beetle. We stillhave a chance of beating this one so let’s not take any chances. [/SIZE]
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Being asfar north as you are I doubt the cause of the ash death was Emerald Ash Borer.But please don’t move firewood.
There is no place in the continental United States which is too far north for the Emerald Ash Borer.
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Typical, especially these days.
