Ash trees are hardy, attractive, withstand wind and snow loads and provide excellent shade. My city planted thousands of them back in the day, and now the forestry department is inspecting every year and marking them with green or orange dots. On the upside, trees like sycamore that had fallen out of favor with urban planters are coming back into fashion.
The root system was damaged and caused ot stress drawing in the pests. The ground had been piled up around the base of the tree. If the tree wasn't dead before the wall was put in the wall installation killed it. Ash roots do not like to be disturbed and a major disturbing like ripping half of the roots off will kill it quick.
A dying stars radiation which was prophecized in the book of apocalypse as the rise of the dark star Wormwood has been leaking into our solar system. some call it change.
I've lost a few, but still there are seedlings growing. White ash trees are not gone yet. What happened to the insects after their food source was gone? They died.
My own yard has over 65 various Trees...and now I discover I am but a Bore-Worm Farmer as all of them are now infiltrated with worms and wood-ants. So sad!
I hear you. We are located in Ontario Canada. Our property has lost all the ash. And last year an aggressive insect began infesting and killing our beautiful old tamaracks. We are trying to bring back the white pine and have three young ones near our cabin which we planted there two years ago. They now live inside cages. The rabbits got to them early on but the trees managed to survive. Enjoy your forest. Sounds magnificent.
@@annes9324 .. Sorry to hear about the loss, but ... have seen it, driving west just a couple weeks ago from the East Coast to the Rockies. Wait until you try planting spruces or hemlocks, and the DEER mow them down in the winter! We've had that experience, too. At least our tamaracks seem to be safe, for the time being at least. I've planted perhaps a dozen of them in the last two years, and they're fortunately growing like weeds on steroids.
Well, TECHNICALLY it's the death of a genus, rather than a species .... but sad nonetheless. Have seen vast areas of upstate New York where large percentages of the forest consist of dead ash trees - gaunt ghostly white trunks and larger branches, reaching upwards towards the sky almost plaintively. We've escaped so far at our place in New England, where our woods (some 35 acres of them) include brown (= black) ash, green ash, and white ash trees. But it may be only a matter of time. Already, what we have for elms get maybe 6-9 inches in diameter at the base, and then die .... courtesy of Dutch Elm Disease.
