It Doesn't Look Good For The Ash Tree

[Wendelspanswick]

Ash tree set for extinction in Europe

Ash tree set for extinction in Europe - BBC News

[Stubby]

Ash tree set for extinction in Europe

Ash tree set for extinction in Europe - BBC News

 

Yea . Saw that . Its in the Chalara Fraxinia generic thread stated y David H .

[Will Heal]

Yea but is as bad as it sounds? I thought ash were more genetically diverse than elm so more trees were resistant to ash dieback. I didn't know about the beetle though. I thought it was only in America

[Ferguson system]

Healthy mature trees will most likely survive the onslought. Young trees on the other hand

[dan494]

I know there are a lot more educated in these matters than me people about but it sounds a bit sensationalist? Not all ash saplings are susceptible and given the amount of self set ash trees there are I'd have thought they'd get over this fungus in a few decades, after all this isn't some newly invented in a lab type thing it would have been around for thousands of years. It's just nature taking its course.

 

Same as every six months you hear of some new tropical disease that's going to wipe out all humans! A month later noones heard of it again!

[Stubby]

Did it not wipe out all the Ash in Poland ?

[diervek]

I know there are a lot more educated in these matters than me people about but it sounds a bit sensationalist? Not all ash saplings are susceptible and given the amount of self set ash trees there are I'd have thought they'd get over this fungus in a few decades, after all this isn't some newly invented in a lab type thing it would have been around for thousands of years. It's just nature taking its course.

 

Same as every six months you hear of some new tropical disease that's going to wipe out all humans! A month later noones heard of it again!

 

It's not just the die back, the emerald ash borer beetle is heading our way to add to the already fragile stock... but if you had read the story...

 

I do agree though, set for extinction in Europe in the headline may be a little sensationalist at present.

[dan494]

It's not just the die back, the emerald ash borer beetle is heading our way to add to the already fragile stock... but if you had read the story...

 

 

 

I do agree though, set for extinction in Europe in the headline may be a little sensationalist at present.

 

 

I did, it's in Moscow and possibly Sweden, again this bug wasn't just invented! I'd imagine it's been around as long as ash trees!

[diervek]

But it also wasn't able to travel across oceans in that time. Species only become tolerant and resistant if they co-evolve. When suddenly subjected to a new pathogen, they won't have time to develop defence strategies. Double up the "attack", as in the case of die back and the potential of a new threat, and the European ash faces a very difficult battle.