The sign I saw was along these lines but contained more details.
It’s happened before - the Eastern US looks totally different than it did when settlers first arrived. The American chestnut that was ridiculously common and highly rot resistant and which was used by settlers for fence rails and cabins is now long gone- not because they were all chopped down, but because of chestnut blight. It was an important component of the diet of the now extinct passenger pigeon...and many other animals and game birds.
A similar story goes for the American Elm, for all practical purposes devastated by the introduced Dutch Elm Disease.
The beeches that were once thick all over the Ohio region and supplied mast in odd years for many species, also including the now extinct passenger pigeon... were greatly reduced because settlers recognized the beech’s need for moist, fertile soil and so, sought out beech groves to clear for farming.
There’s now another introduced bug, the emerald ash borer, which is doing a number on American ash trees, a commercially important lumber species. Time will tell how big an impact that’s going to make as it spreads out from Chicago.
And some new bug’s been introduced lately that’s killing our sweet bay trees here.
Another nasty thing is wiping out our citrus trees here; it is called lethal yellowing, a disease that hitchhikes on an introduced insect. Since these are recently introduced pests trees have about as much defense against them as the American Indian did against smallpox. There will be survivors but only after a lot are wiped out, leaving gaping holes in the food chain, forest succession, etc.
emerald ash borer ... spreads out from Chicago.
That’s its real name? From Chicago?
Is this recent data from Obama’s new book?
“There’s now another introduced bug, the emerald ash borer...”
Anticipating the impending quarantine I logged off every last one from our property last summer.
The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is marching its way across New York and some areas have already been quarantined.
The log buyer said that all the logs are going directly to CHINA! If I’d have known that beforehand I would have cut them up for firewood and sold locally.
If government had allowed the use of DDT, we would still have Elm trees.
James F. Cooper bemoaned that even back in 1823 in The Pioneers which is set in the 1780s!
When one drives from Boston to NYC the most direct route involves I-84 into Connecticut and to the New York border (although you can do I-95 too).Recently when driving that route (I-84) there was a great big sign when you cross into Connecticut saying there's a state law which forbids bringing firewood (or wood products,can't recall which) into the state from elsewhere.I think the sign mentions some kind of insect...although I might have read that elsewhere.
The sign I saw was along these lines but contained more details.