Ladies and Gentlemen: Start Your Engines!

In February, I was scheduled to speak at a landscape program in Rockville, MD. Before I went on, I had a chance to chat with one of the other speakers–the esteemed entomologist from the University of Maryland, Dr. Mike Raupp–who said concerning the Emerald Ash Borer, “nobody believes you until the trees start dying.”

Thin canopied ash trees in a central-Jersey landscape. Photo: Richard Buckley, Rutgers PDL

Thin-canopied ash trees in a central-Jersey landscape. Photo: Richard Buckley, Rutgers PDL

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