Creating Utility Baskets and the Depletion of Ash Trees

Richard, a Wabanaki basket maker, crafts utility baskets like the potato baskets his mother made. He struggles to find quality ash trees for his work due to the destruction caused by the Emerald Ashborer (EAB). The EAB invasion, starting in Michigan, led to quarantines and the loss of millions of trees. Despite education campaigns and bans on moving firewood, the EAB has now spread to 35 states and five Canadian provinces. Efforts to control the EAB now focus on biological control methods.

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