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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) —State forestry crews are moving fast to harvest the seeds of Oregon ash trees before the arrival of incoming invasive pests, which could eventually wipe out the native species ...

As of 2018, about 25,000 black and white ash trees stood tall in the Menominee Forest. Then the first infested tree was ...

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 ...

The Emerald Ash Borer, a nasty pest that infects ash trees has already been detected in Michigan, Wisconsin and Canada, and experts fear that MinnesotaâÄôs ash trees could be next. In an effort to ...

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.

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 ...