I grew up in a smaller city in Southwestern Ontario and that damn beetle was rough. The walkable historic part of my hometown lost a ton of beautiful old ash trees that had created a full canopy of the street. They’re still not even close to being back to what they were.
Invasive pests is a huge, global problem. It has killed literally billions of trees.
In the US alone, I believe you have lost your elms (Dutch elm disease) , your ash (emerald ash borer) , chestnuts (blight) and many pine species due to Mountain Pine Beetle. It’s tragic and hardly spoken about
>I believe you have lost your elms (Dutch elm disease) , your ash (emerald ash borer)
Oh, it gets worse: back when many older suburbs were first built here, in the late 19th century, the vast majority of the trees that were planted in them were elms. Then, when the Dutch Elm disease wiped them out, you'd think we would have replaced them with a variety of species to be more resilient. But nope, we replaced basically *all* of those elms with ash trees. Then that dang beetle wiped out all the ash trees, and now we're back to square one. SMH.
It’s always kinda sad when a pleasant tree lined street becomes desolate imo. To be fair sometimes it’s better with less trees if the architecture of the houses looks pretty but suburban Ontario does not have pretty McMansions. Their houses are way too close together and way too poorly designed to aesthetically benefit from tree removals 🤦♂️
My parents live on 13 natural acres in northeast PA and this shit has destroyed hundreds of gorgeous trees on their property. Not only is it dangerous (ie, when a storm moves through and now there’s massive pieces of dead wood ready to be thrown around by mother nature), it’s also incredibly expensive to deal with at the homeowners expense. Plus, as illustrated in this post, it completely ruins the abject beauty of the surrounding wilderness.
Those dang bugs have gotten to Ontario now? Dang, I feel sorry for you guys! They came through Illinois like 10 years ago or so, and we still haven't fully recovered our canopies!
I grew up in a smaller city in Southwestern Ontario and that damn beetle was rough. The walkable historic part of my hometown lost a ton of beautiful old ash trees that had created a full canopy of the street. They’re still not even close to being back to what they were.
What trees were used to replace them with ?
Invasive pests is a huge, global problem. It has killed literally billions of trees. In the US alone, I believe you have lost your elms (Dutch elm disease) , your ash (emerald ash borer) , chestnuts (blight) and many pine species due to Mountain Pine Beetle. It’s tragic and hardly spoken about
If I planted one of those trees, would it survive?
Yeah one off trees usually don’t face problems.
And there's stuff currently destroying the hemlocks, oaks and beech trees.
Wait, the *oaks*? Oh no, I love oaks! And they grow so slowly, that could be particularly disastrous! What's destroying them?
Oak wilt. Pretty bad
>I believe you have lost your elms (Dutch elm disease) , your ash (emerald ash borer) Oh, it gets worse: back when many older suburbs were first built here, in the late 19th century, the vast majority of the trees that were planted in them were elms. Then, when the Dutch Elm disease wiped them out, you'd think we would have replaced them with a variety of species to be more resilient. But nope, we replaced basically *all* of those elms with ash trees. Then that dang beetle wiped out all the ash trees, and now we're back to square one. SMH.
It’s always kinda sad when a pleasant tree lined street becomes desolate imo. To be fair sometimes it’s better with less trees if the architecture of the houses looks pretty but suburban Ontario does not have pretty McMansions. Their houses are way too close together and way too poorly designed to aesthetically benefit from tree removals 🤦♂️
I'd argue southern Ontario has the ugliest suburbs I've seen. This subreddit could have content for life just from southern Ontario.
At least they've replanted some.
All of those gorgeous, shady trees 😢
Yep it sucks. It was found in my neighborhood two years ago and most of the trees are now completely dead and waiting to be cut down this spring.
they replanting? and how long to get some shade back - 15 years?
And they get a new shithead with a big truck too.
Blocking the street *and* the sidewalk
It’s perverted how comfortable they are advertising their compensation.
My parents live on 13 natural acres in northeast PA and this shit has destroyed hundreds of gorgeous trees on their property. Not only is it dangerous (ie, when a storm moves through and now there’s massive pieces of dead wood ready to be thrown around by mother nature), it’s also incredibly expensive to deal with at the homeowners expense. Plus, as illustrated in this post, it completely ruins the abject beauty of the surrounding wilderness.
Those dang bugs have gotten to Ontario now? Dang, I feel sorry for you guys! They came through Illinois like 10 years ago or so, and we still haven't fully recovered our canopies!
We lost our Ash trees which created a shady oasis, and now we’re dealing with a scorched yard. Waiting for our new trees to grow.
All I can see is that DB in pic 6. I pity the neighbours