Tag: emerald ash borer

June 22, 2022

Birds and insects help control ash borer invasion

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...

July 20, 2021

In ash borer-infested forests, focus on climate change

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...

September 12, 2019

Resistant trees may hold key to surviving ash borer

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...

October 3, 2017

IUCN Red List Update shows downfalls and successes

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...

December 4, 2015

New York State Forests May Be at Their Peak: Report

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...