Re: Ash borer

Posted by wisbaker on February 06, 2014 at 14:19:36 from (173.30.33.15):

In Reply to: Ash borer posted by Whichester1 on February 06, 2014 at 10:04:33:

From what I've read if you're i a city or campus setting treating trees is cheaper than having them cut down later by an arborist. Seems I saw somewhere the folks running the Edsel B Ford home/museum said it cost them about $20 to treat each tree. It is also my understanding that moving any wood with bark on it can transport the little green booger. Which explains why the MI DNR has the forbidden firewood pile on the NORTH side of Big Mac (easier to infect the UP that way, the DNR doesn't much care for Yoopers). Not entirely up on it, yes I'm a native troll but I last lived in Michigan 25 years ago (and even at that I was Air Force, I lived there but not really) been in exile over the Cheddar Fence for the last 14 years. Michigan State University Forestry was the folks that discovered the EAB and have done some work on containment but it is still spreading. What trees are we going to have left? Chestnuts are gone from the Chestnut Blight, Elms from the Dutch Elm Disease, Maple are getting hit hard with Verticillium wilt (at least urban trees under high stress) what other species have we lost? Some of it is caused by the trees we plant and unsustainable forestry practices. When I was with the county I had to select some new trees for the courthouse lawn. We had a Yellow Buckeye that had grown to big and was messing with the courthouse foundation and was showing signs of stress (no nuts and would start turning colors in August) Also had a Stitka Spruce that was making it known it wasn't happy and 5 or 6 Maples with wilt. Of course the sugar maple is the State tree of Wisconsin and many wanted me to plant sugar maples. My forestry friends told me it wasn't a good idea most urban sugar maples are dealing with a lot of stress. In a nod to our county's heritage I planted two white pines on the west side of the courthouse, they get enough shade to keep the weevil from taking root and the White Pine was the tree that sustained the forestry industry of Northern Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota for years. Where I didn't want evergreens I used a maple hybrid called a Freeman Maple, they where thriving when I left that job.

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