quads said:
IPLUMB said:
oh and are you guys getting much Asian Ash Borer damage over there? Our woods over here are a mess. I can't beleave it. Its a mess.
I have heard that Wisconsin is having a problem too, but Ash trees are rare in my immediate area. There isn't one anywhere in the woods, that I have ever found. I had a small one in my yard, and it died. There are two big ones growing near the barn and one of those has been sick for a few years now. They were planted there before my time and I think the small one in my yard was seeded from those.
So far here between the lakes ( lake winnebago and Michigan ) I haven't seen any damage but I did take a white ash down and cut a slab off the side of it , it looked to me to be damaged from the beetle , I took it to the county agent as it was drilled full of holes and it sure looked to be the tracks of the larvae under the bark . County agent said it wasn't ash borer but this perfectly healthy tree died in one year . I sure hope I don't get hit where I cut as about 30 percent is ash either black ash or white ash and that would be ashame but at least its only a few miles from my house in my county so I could still cut and use the wood . My brother has land across the county line and has been cutting and taking as much ash as possible in fear of a transport band coming this way . The 2 counties to the south Fondulac and Sheboygan counties have already bans on them along with brown county to the north .
You know its always something It seams as one species gets killed off another grows in its place , I remember the dutch elm disease That nearly wiped out 25 percent of my woods now its the ash borer .
The elms are trying hard to come back as I have cut a few that have died here lately that have made it into the 12 15" range but I doubt I will ever see the 36 " size that they were when the disease hit .
If the ash borer hits my woods I will be taking one heck of a lot of trees 18- 24 " 60 ft tall .
I sure hope it doesn't happen .