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Virginia Tech Demonstrates New Method to Treat Ash Firewood

August 04, 2014 Devin J. Wanner, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry, U.S. Forest Service

The shiny green one-half-inch-long, one-eighth-inch-wide emerald ash borer has destroyed tens of millions of ash trees in the U.S. since the beetle’s discovery in 2002 in Detroit. The real Ash trees comprise around seven percent of the trees in eastern U.S. forests. In urban areas, ash trees make up...

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