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Emerald Ash Borer (IL)

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From: Steve Fulscher
City:
Rossville, IL
is there anything i can do to protect my ash trees for the future invasion of the Emerald Ash Boer?

 
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From: Jay Hayek
Extension Specialist, Forestry
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
jhayek@illinois.edu
Greetings Steve:

About the only sensible and feasible thing a landowner can do is keep an eye out for sparse crowns and mortality associated with their ash trees. Contact your local IL-DNR district forester if you notice a lot of ash dieback.

Alternatively, if you have a forest management plan on your woodland and your plan recommends timber harvesting in the near future, then I would seriously consider harvesting the majority of merchantable ash on the property. Otherwise, we're pretty much stuck in a wait and see mindset!

 
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