Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richard Silliboy uses a machine to pound an ash log in his workshop. Once pounded, the log will divide into layers that can be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ash trees make up more than 50% of Milbank's public tree canopy, including parks and its cemetery. (Photo courtesy of city of ...

The city of Milbank, South Dakota, is battling an emerald ash borer infestation threatening over half its public trees. Officials chose a $2.4 million herd immunity treatment plan over a more ...

Winter isn’t the ideal season for pruning trees in Upstate New York, but it’s the best time to cut scion or twigs from ash trees in parts of the state where the species has been all but wiped out.

Each strip of wood in Richard Silliboy’s hands started as a year of an ash tree’s life. Silliboy, 79, is a member of the Mi’kmaq tribe and a master basketmaker. His blue eyes are kind and frequently ...

It would cost up to $4 million to cut down Milbank’s ash trees, after state and city officials detected a beetle last summer that threatens to decimate the northeastern South Dakota city’s tree canopy ...