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Message: [QUOTE="ClifSpliffy, post: 4009903, member: 9260"] this year seems like the final act for the ash tree here in Connecticut. you can easily see their death everywhere when looking at almost any patch of forest. stark. '[I]To put its damage in perspective, the number of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnuts']chestnuts[/URL] killed by the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut_blight']chestnut blight[/URL] was around 3.5 billion chestnut trees while there are 3.5 billion ash trees in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio']Ohio[/URL] alone. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_elm_disease']Dutch elm disease[/URL] killed only 200 million elm trees while EAB threatens 7.5 billion ash trees in the United States. The insect threatens the entire North American genus [I]Fraxinus[/I]. Since its accidental introduction into the United States and Canada in the 1990s, and its subsequent detection in 2002, it has spread to eleven states and adjacent parts of Canada. It has killed at least 50 million ash trees so far and [U]threatens to kill most of the ash trees throughout North America.'[/U] [/I]wiki. next up? beech leaf disease just getting started this year, also easily spotted, particularly in coastal towns. longterm prognosis? unknown at this time. the American chestnut is a member of the beech tree family. [/QUOTE]