An invasive insect has laid waste to an estimated 100 million ash trees across the U.S. Now Oregon foresters are taking pre-emptive steps to limit the bug’s impact. The emerald ash borer is a metallic ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon Department of Forestry staff recently completed an unprecedented effort to collect seeds from populations of Oregon ash (Fraxinus latifolia) trees throughout the Oregon ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Department of Forestry spent three years collecting more than 900,000 seeds from populations of Oregon ash trees throughout the state. The ODF employees completed ...

CHILLICOTHE― Researchers are asking residents of Ross County to help regional forest health efforts by collecting ash seeds. This effort will help to bring back the native ash trees that have been ...

AMES, Iowa - Mark Widrlechner may someday be known as the modern-day Johnny Appleseed for ash trees. As the devastating insect emerald ash borer is working its way across North America destroying ...

Oregon forestry officials have collected over 900,000 seeds from a native tree species, in an effort to protect against an invasive insect. After collection, Emerald Ash seeds can last 60 to 70 years ...

CHICAGO – It’s an unlikely place for a nature hike: Tucked away on the Northwest Side of Chicago, the Montclare neighborhood is marked by quiet streets, neat bungalows and postage-stamp lawns. But ...

While the invasive emerald ash borer continues to kill ash trees in 13 states, including Illinois and Wisconsin, researchers at Iowa State University in Ames are heading an effort to collect ash seeds ...

Somewhere in Oregon — it's hoped — there is an ash tree genetically inclined to survive a looming existential threat. It would look just like any other Oregon ash, a species now at risk of functional ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Working with the help of a federal grant from the USDA Forest Service, the Oregon Department of Forestry has been gathering seeds from Oregon ash trees from throughout the state.