Ian Rose

Since the emerald ash borer arrived in Oregon, there has been a lot of reporting on its spread and the damage it will cause, including my own in Columbia Insight. But this, out today in High Country News, may be the best thing I've read on it. A lot of us have tackled the numbers and the science, and that's important - but Jaclyn Moyer, a fellow Corvallis writer, focuses instead on the trees and some of the people who will miss them most.

Give it a read.
#oregon #eab #corvallis

https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-10/watching-the-oregon-ash-vanish/

Watching the Oregon ash vanish

The emerald ash borer is killing the native tree. How do we make the most of the time while it’s still here?

High Country News
Oct 17 at 10:36pmWeb
Show threadWillOct 17

@ianrosewrites
I will give this a read, soon.

The possible demise of the Oregon Ash just breaks my heart. It's definitely one of my favorite trees.

Show threadKaitlin (she/her)Oct 27

I love this:

" These groves don’t grow in parks or preserves, but are instead sandwiched between residential developments and railroad lines, clustered under freeway bridges, behind gas stations, and in narrow ribbons along roadsides. In these margins, ash trees have salvaged scraps of land discarded by agriculture, urbanization and conservation alike, and transformed them into forests."