The Ash Borer Invasion in the Midwest

Richard's house is small and white, with christmas lights running along the perimeter. Dandelions have sprung back up from his recently mowed lawn. Richard splits the halves again so that the bowl is quartered. He removes the heart wood and then uses his axe to peel the bark from the tree. Over the years, he's ad an increasingly hard time finding basket quality trees. The forest is very sacred to us, says richard. I know that they're replanting, but they're not replanting brown ash. They're replanting something that they can harvest in another forty, 50 years,. Some type of tree that will grow fast, that they can make another dollar on