A small beetle is responsible for the death and decline of billions of ash trees in North America, and the race is on to stop ...

MOUNT DESERT ISLAND, Maine (WABI) - State forest Officials have identified an infestation of emerald ash borer on Mount Desert Island. Maine State Forester Patty Cormier says an arborist in Bar Harbor ...

There’s a tree killer on the loose in Oregon, and nobody knows how to stop it. An invasive green beetle called the emerald ash borer arrived in the Midwest from Asia, and it’s killed over 100 million ...

James E. Zablotny/USDA APHIS This week, crews removed dozens of infested ash trees in Forest Grove as part of a state plan to slow the spread of the destructive pest. This month, state agencies ...

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 ...

The invasive emerald ash borer, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was first found in the United States in southeast Michigan in 2002. In the decades since, the wood-boring beetle has ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. In 2009, an invasive tree pest was discovered on an ash tree in St. Paul. This ...

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.

Trees don’t get a lot of love. Beyond Arbor Day, there’s little in the way of formal celebrations of their existence, even though it’s impossible to imagine life without them. That’s certainly true ...