I have heard that when there are no ash trees around, the borers go after other hardwoods.
We have friends in NY who are losing their ash trees to that vermin. I don’t know about us yet here in NH. We have ash on our property. We’ll see how long they last. I sure hope someone is working on a way to stop them.
Beavers tried to kill a huge ash adjacent to my NH property. It’s coming back; that is, HALF of it is coming back.
Seedlings are everywhere: they’ve become a weed...!