New York – A beetle that ravaged stands of ash trees in southern Michigan has moved through Pennsylvania to within striking distance of New York's border.
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So authorities in New York are asking campers and others to limit moving firewood into or through the state and to beware of the emerald ash borer.
The half-inch-long invasive insect has destroyed an estimated 20 million ash trees nationally over the past five years. [AP]
we could use their help by removing some trees off the interstate 87 in the adirondocks, this came up in the comments of the past year when an eldery couple from brooklyn was with a cell phone in a fliped car off the hwy and for 32 hour in the minus 7 farenheit degrees their was no cell service and the husband nebach was niftar after 20 hours, so to the beetles I say like bob barker sais “comon down” my heart still breaks for this almono we will never forget.