My friend Chris Nabergall, who works at Hocking Hills Canopy Tours asked me to come out and look at some trees for him on an extremely cold january day recently. We hopped into his ATV(with no doors or roof) to start the consult and I asked him to please turn up the heat. He stated “the heat is broken, but the A/C works fine” On we went.
Here are some pics I took of the adventure. I don’t like heights, so this is as close as I get to the canopy
Here is a picture of an ash tree that had been abraded from waist high all the way to the top. It had perished of Emerald Ash Borer.
The damage to this tree was done by woodpeckers of all things. It seems the silver lining in the EAB destruction is that woodpeckers love the borers, and this has caused an increase in numbers of many of our Ohio Woodpecker species due to increased food availability.
The damage is called Flecking
All in all a good way to spend a morning in the woods. If you have questions or concerns with your trees, contact me at Extension and I will come out and see if I can help.