I decided to walk down to the library on this very cold day to upload some maps, as I don’t have internet at home. I was going to go for a walk around town earlier but changed my mind when I heard the wind whipping around. Still might be enough light though to go to Swift Preserve for a walk after the library close though.
"Members of the St. Lawrence County Emerald Ash Borer Task Force have been busy this winter checking ash trees for signs of the invasive beetle. The task force is made up of representatives from Cornell Cooperative Extension, the county, students,..."
DEC STANDS database says there are 6,466 acres of state forest with white ash being more than 50% of the tree cover, 1,775 acres where green ash is more than 50%, 332 acres where were black ash is more than 50%.
White ash predominants on 31,367 acres but it is not 50% on many of those acres.
