Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FRANKLIN ― It would be hard to overstate the importance of the black ash tree to the Abenaki people of Vermont. Not only does it ...

Winter isn’t the ideal season for pruning trees in Upstate New York, but it’s the best time to cut scion or twigs from ash trees in parts of the state where the species has been all but wiped out.

When 86-year-old Jeanne Somers contacted Public Investigator in November about an emerald ash borer infestation in her neighbor's yard, a 70-foot dead ash tree had just fallen across her driveway. She ...

The insect threatens the health and survival of the black ash tree. In northern Wisconsin, April Stone is carrying on a centuries-old Ojibwe practice of basket making. She uses wood from the black ash ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A deadly new enemy to Denver’s 330,000 ash trees just moved to town. The emerald ash borer, an invasive insect that’s killed millions of trees across the ...