What happens after EAB?

[Maddog66]

That’s what I have too Knehrke, the ash is in a very wet drainage area and the tamaracks / cedar grow right up to the edge, but not in the standing water. I’m thinking of going in there with my saw and just dumping them on the ground to rot away faster.

 

[sandbur]

seven or so years ago, I plugged in black spruce and some white spruce on higher locations, in/ near a black ash swamp. Survival wasn’t good to begin with and beavers have now flooded the area for over three years.

The beavers are now knocked back in numbers but bog has floated down to plug the creek.

Oh well…..

 

[SwampCat]

I took this picture the other day as I rode by on my tractor. Ash just starting to die pretty bad here. I can already see an increase is understory plants due to an increase in sunlight. I would suspect box elder, sweetgum, persimmon, and honey locust will be the primary woody invaders. It is wet winter and spring. I have probably close to 75 acres almost pure green ash and a lot of big ash scattered on the ridge

 

[Maddog66]

Duplicate….

 

[H20fwler]

Ash was dropping here hard 8-10 years ago NW Ohio, young ones have sprouted up. We have a good mix of oak/walnut/hickory with some hard maple and cherry mixed in, they seemed to have filled the ash gap.
Every now and then I notice decent size elm trying to make a comeback.

We cut some of the ash for firewood but most just laid there and rotted.

 

[fingers]

Bush honeysuckle and autumn olive have filled in all the spots opened up by dead ash around us

 

[swampbuck]

All of our larger ash trees are dead. Some have fallen but really wish some of the larger ones would start falling as well. Most have been dead for about 7 or 8 years now. Anyone have any idea of how long some of those dead ones will stay up?

Our spots are low so just getting backfilled with tag alder or more sedge. Would like to get something established again though to break up the tags, just need the big ones to fall first.