Tag: emerald ash borer

Since they arrived in the early 1990s, emerald ash borers have destroyed millions of North American ash trees. Quarantines on wood shipments haven’t worked to control them. But managers have...

While forest management strategies in the U.S. East and Midwest often focus on stopping damage from the invasive emerald ash borer, researchers say forest conservation efforts shouldn’t neglect mitigating for...

When the invasive emerald ash borer devastated a plantation of ash trees at Penn State University, only a handful of the trees survived, but those trees could hold the key...

Among the nearly 88,000 plant and animal species assessed in this year’s IUCN Red List of Endangered Species update, while some species seem to be improving, over 25,000 are threatened...

The overall forest cover of New York State may have reached a peak, according to a new federal report. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service conducted an inventory of...