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>> This tree looks pretty.
>> These trees are just gorgeous.
One of the reasons we love living in Missouri.
>> But something lurks beneath the bark
that threatens Missouri's ash trees:
Emerald Ash Borer, a green menace.
Emerald Ash Borer, or EAB,
has infested Missouri and 14 other states.
It's killed tens of millions of ash trees.
So far EAB has been found in Wayne County
in southeast Missouri.
>> If Emerald Ash Borer is left unchecked
it's going to destroy a lot of the ash trees in Missouri
and a lot of the benefits that go with it.
And that could be shade for our houses, wildlife habitat,
lumber and other forest products,
and even benefits to our air and water quality.
>> If ash trees go away, think of what we'd miss.
>> All that and beauty that's priceless.
However you have the power to save trees, it's simple.
Don't take firewood with you on your camping trip,
RV adventure, or to your hunting camp.
Don't bring it from your parents' or friend's place
to your home in the suburbs.
Don't bring it with you on your scout's camping trip.
Instead, buy it where you'll use it.
Besides flying short distances, EAB travels in firewood,
that's probably how it reached Missouri in the first place.
Do your part and buy firewood where you will use it.
>> If you think about it, firewood moves around
and we don't really look at it very closely.
But underneath there could be all kinds of various insects
and diseases that hitchhike on wood,
Emerald Ash Borer is one of these.
We think that's how it got to Missouri because
it has been found in a campground that's
the center of the infestation we have in Missouri.
So we believe it's most likely that the Emerald Ash Borer
came here by hitchhiking on firewood.
>> You can still have a roaring camp fire,
or have heat to warm you on cold winter nights,
just make sure to buy firewood near where will you use it.
That means the wood
was cut within 50 miles of where you will burn it.
Buy local, and burn it where you buy it.
Emerald Ash Borer can turn a healthy forest
into a dead forest.
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