Ash dieback fungus

[kev7937]

the ability of the beetle to lay eggs in the phloem because it is too narrow, as in a <25 year old tree

 

 

Ah Never new that bit, had always wondered ...

 

Ta

[carpenter1]

if a infected tree needs cutting down who's responsability is it?

 

can the infected tree be used as firewood?

 

thanks

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

the woods fine, but they say it must be burned on site, silly as the fungi fruits from twigs and petioles/racus

[carpenter1]

so you can use the trunck as fire wood,

just not the small branches, say under 3''

[mendiplogs]

so you can use the trunck as fire wood,

just not the small branches, say under 3''

 

HI CARPENTER so you say you can use the butts as logs yes/no jon

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

i think the current stance is it must not be moved from site. I would say log wood is fine, kept dried not allowed to dampen and used for firewood or furniture for indoor use. it would be a travesty to allow the wood products that carry no infection to be wasted.

[toprotter]

If a site is found with an infected tree it has to be burned or buried it can be burnt as logs at the property if one is on the infected site. But any movement of site is prohibited.

[morten]

Believing that any restrictions on transportation/import/handling of Ash timber will prevent the disease spreading and causing country-wide die-back of Ash trees in the UK is naïve. It may delay the spread of the disease, but it will spread regardless of any action taken.

 

Mind you, I believe some resistant specimens will survive, and form the base of a new population of (resistant) ash trees in the distant future. These diseases are (also) just part of nature's way of ensuring evolution.

 

I would be happy to be proven wrong, but I'm afraid evidence (from Elm disease, and from Continental Europe) has proven me right.

[toprotter]

Well we can be grateful of one thing, that there hasn't been a knee jerk reaction too fell all and sundry.

Nature is doing its thing. Sad in a way but as you say Morten I am sure some will survive.

[skyhuck]

Where are people getting this information about have to burn mature trees??

 

As far as I know the removals so far have all been saplings and young trees, which have been burned on site.

 

The Larch that have been fell for decease control, the timber was removed from site.