Better get your swamp ash.

[11top]

I just read this article in Guitar World.

https://www.guitarworld.com/feature...d-out-why-and-what-woods-will-be-used-instead

While we’ve known about the emerald ash borer and the plight of ash trees for quite a few years now, this quote is very telling and disturbing:

"They’ve tried to do all kinds of things, introducing non-native species that would eat the beetles, pesticides, they’ve thrown everything at the wall and nothing has stopped the blight of this invasive pest that was not-native and I don’t know how it got here.

“It’s eating its way through the forest and ash will be completely gone in a couple of years. I guess like how American chestnut got destroyed in the 30s and it’s over. This is not like it will go away for a couple of seasons and eventually grow back.”

 

[bluefade]

Did you buy too much ASH and now there's none left for the rest of us?

 

[11top]

Did you buy too much BRW and now there's none left for the rest of us?

Fixed, and I plead the 5th.

 

[dogrocketp]

Did you plead it after drinking it?

 

[alantig]

Did you plead it after drinking it?

No - he peed it.

 

[veinbuster]

I saw this a little while ago.

I now ash around here is near finished. I counted over 30 newly on the ground after one wind storm last year - in about a five mile stretch of a bike ride. After a couple of rounds of that, the conservation authority started preemptively cutting down all ash near trails. Lots of free firewood though.

 

[xjbebop]

Read about this a few days ago.... very sad....

 

[bodia]

I saw this a little while ago.

I now ash around here is near finished. I counted over 30 newly on the ground after one wind storm last year - in about a five mile stretch of a bike ride. After a couple of rounds of that, the conservation authority started preemptively cutting down all ash near trails. Lots of free firewood though.

Same around here. The industrial area a couple of blocks north of me had it's main streets lined with them, even down the median. It was a pleasant drive through the canopy of trees. Two summers ago, they cut them all down. Now it's wide open, and looks barren. Sad, really. They did plant some new trees, but it will be decades before the area looks remotely similar. Same with a couple of the subdivisions in my area.

On a positive note, I am covered.

 

[mookyshoots]

I have noticed that quality lightweight swamp ash has been getting tougher to find, so between that and the tele threads on here, I just ordered a nice swamp ash body to start a partscaster project to ease my boredom. You guys are a bad influence.

 

[11top]

I had about 20 of these large ash trees at my home. It’s sad, but there is so much dead and cut ash that nobody wants it. It’s just rotting.

 

[mookyshoots]

Our neighborhood was lined with ash down all of the streets but the village has had to cut most of them down now due to the ash borer problem here in the midwest. The ash tree in front of my house is one of the last healthy ones on our street.

 

[Deleted member 5962]

There's a lake I talk about often here, that's 7 miles from our house. We go kayaking there multiple times a year, camping there 4-5 times a year and fishing there every chance I get. The campgrounds has always been beautiful with mature trees offering shade on many campsites. When the ash bore went through there a couple years ago, they ended up taking out over 2500 trees from the campgrounds alone. Our 3 favorite sites that we've camped at for years are now completely without shade.

We drove through the campgrounds during winter while they were doing it, and it looked like a war zone. You couldn't even drive on many of the roads around the campsites and they just dropped trees everywhere. Ironically, we had a cold winter while they were doing that and there was an article in the paper the next spring that said that if they had known we'd have that one extended cold spell, they wouldn't have had to kill all those trees as the weather would have killed the invaders. Haven't read anything else about that aspect, but boy, they are really leaving a path of destruction.

 

[11top]

https://www.turfnet.com/news.html/e...h-entire-north-american-ash-tree-range-r1359/

 

[Deleted member 5962]

https://www.turfnet.com/news.html/e...h-entire-north-american-ash-tree-range-r1359/

Yeah... don't want to say anything "Non-PC" or anything offensive of course... but once again, the problem came from, oh never mind.

 

[11top]

Yeah... don't want to say anything "Non-PC" or anything offensive of course... but once again, the problem came from, oh never mind.

You read my mind. Our buddies. I’m seriously trying to not buy anything made there. It’s not easy, and that’s just sad.

 

[Warmart]

You read my mind. Our buddies. I’m seriously trying to not buy anything made there. It’s not easy, and that’s just sad.

I'm in total agreement. Either we start doing something about it or we're REALLY going to be in for it in 10 to 20 years.

And dman I hate stinkbugs.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

 

[jxe]

frickin’ forest service.

then again, ash is uglier than oak so maybe some prettier tree will take over the genoecoclinodeme.

 

[Deleted member 5962]

You read my mind. Our buddies. I’m seriously trying to not buy anything made there. It’s not easy, and that’s just sad.

My boss went there for a week last year. He said the smog was so bad they had "stay indoors except for necessary movements" alerts out every day he was there. He said it was so bad it choked you. Said you couldn't see one city block down the street! Search out the hole in the ozone map sometime and see if you can figure out who is destroying our climate. Enough before I get in trouble...

 

[dmatthews]

The pine beetle ruined a lot of B.C. timber here as well. Extremely destructive.