FRANKLIN ― It would be hard to overstate the importance of the black ash tree to the Abenaki people of Vermont. Not only does it provide the perfect material for their traditional basket-making ...

In this episode of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces the Black Ash. This species is typically found in wetland environments within Indiana and the North Woods of Northern ...

Ash trees have a leaf with opposite leaf arrangement ... which is alternate in leaf arrangement. Black walnut and butternut tree leaves will have an alternate leaf arrangement.

The insect threatens the health and survival of the black ash tree. In northern Wisconsin, April Stone is carrying on a centuries-old Ojibwe practice of basket making. She uses wood from the black ...

According to Ontario’s Invasive Species Centre, up to 99 per cent of ash trees are killed by the emerald ash borer within ...

Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin member Sherri LaChapelle-Corn (Pitapanukiw) lectured on the plight of the black ash tree and taught a traditional basket weaving class for the Wisconsin Science ...

A new initiative aims to protect black ash trees, now considered endangered, from the invasive emerald ash borer that has wrought havoc on ash tree populations. “It’s an insect that’s ...

The emerald ash borer has decimated ash trees in New York ... The ash genus Fraxinus is composed in this region of white, black and green ash species. It once comprised 7 percent of the biomass ...

Today, only about 10 Ho-Chunk artists still make the baskets, and the black ash trees they are made from are becoming extinct. An exhibition of Ho-Chunk baskets is running at the Paine Art Center ...