The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has quarantined Carlton County after discovering infestations of an invasive ash-tree killing beetle across the southeastern portion of the county. Even though ...

DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistance to a fungus that has ...

The emerald ash borer, an invasive insect that’s killed millions of trees across the United States, was found in several ...

Natural selection is acting upon thousands of locations within the ash tree DNA, driving the evolution of resistance as the ...

In this episode of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces the Black Ash. This species is typically found in wetland environments within Indiana and the North Woods of Northern ...

The decline of black ash trees is also a concern to Tyler Everett, a citizen member of the Mi'kmaq Nation in northern Maine. Everett is the tribal forest adaptation technical assistant with United ...

The emerald ash borer is wiping out black ash trees, critical for Abenaki basket-making. Here's what's being done to keep the tradition alive.

Black Ash: Eaten by the Emerald Menace. Black ash trees once thrived in wet forests from the Northeast to the Midwest, vital for both wildlife and Native American basket weaving traditions.

"Black ash is our culture and the creation story is that we came out of a black ash tree," Wood said. Wood, 61, learned relatively late in life, when she was 50 years old, that she has Abenaki ...

Getty Images - STOCK(NEW YORK) -- In northern Wisconsin, April Stone is carrying on a centuries-old Ojibwe practice of basket making. She uses wood from the black ash tree, a cultural keystone species ...

A new initiative aims to protect black ash trees, now considered endangered, from the invasive emerald ash borer that has wrought havoc on ash tree populations. March 27, 2025.