{"id":2452,"date":"2010-08-05T07:31:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T11:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2010-08-05T07:31:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T11:31:56","slug":"devastating-emerald-ash-borer-reaches-catskills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/08\/05\/devastating-emerald-ash-borer-reaches-catskills\/","title":{"rendered":"Devastating Emerald ash borer reaches Catskills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York&#8217;s Department of Environmental Conservation says the devastating Emerald ash borer has been found in the Catskills.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s DEC commissioner Pete Grannis&#8217;s statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis latest discovery of EAB is particularly troubling because it occurred within the boundaries of one of the state\u2019s two constitutionally protected forest preserves,\u201d Commissioner Grannis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis should be a wake-up call for everyone who enjoys New York\u2019s forests and woodlands. We know that the transportation of firewood causes the spread of this destructive pest, so everyone should do their part to protect our trees: Don&#8217;t transport firewood. Buy your wood locally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This one invasive insect could wipe out as many as 5-10% of the trees in New York state &#8212; though in the Adirondacks ash are less widespread.<\/p>\n<p>Also lurking out there is the Asian longhorn beetle, an invasive nasty that preys on sugar maple trees.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I was driving through the American West and saw huge expanses of forest hit by pine bark beetles.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not pretty.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of seeing huge swaths of the North Country tree canopy laid waste in similar fashion is pretty grim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York&#8217;s Department of Environmental Conservation says the devastating Emerald ash borer has been found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}