Feb 13, 2017 | News, News/PR
Landowners across Northern Virginia and Northwest Virginia are seeing damage to the bark of ash trees, and many are calling the Virginia Department of Forestry asking what is wrong. Bark on these trees is being stripped off by woodpeckers hunting for Emerald Ash Borer...
Aug 27, 2014 | News, News/PR
Virginia’s ash tree population likely will be decimated in the next decade by an invading green beetle smaller than a penny found as close to Lynchburg as Campbell County. While the emerald ash borer has not been confirmed in the George Washington or Jefferson...
Jun 24, 2013 | News, News/PR
Virginia forestry officials are reporting widespread damage to oaks and other trees from this year’s arrival of the 17-year cicadas. Tree damage is the result of cicada females laying eggs in the thin-barked outer branches of trees and shrubs. The females slice...
