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Archie Murchie said: “It is depressing to see the state of our ash trees with dead branches caused by ash dieback and defoliation with ash sawfly. If another invasive beetle pest called ‘emerald ash borer’ makes it to Northern Ireland, we could lose the ash trees completely, in the way that elm trees were wiped out by Dutch elm disease”

meathchronicle Thursday, July 15, 2021 6:56:00 PM CEST

Chris Tolbert said: "Part of our complete street policy is, where we can, we add sidewalks," "And so that's most residential streets and it's a pretty big exception not to get sidewalks"

startribune Thursday, July 15, 2021 4:50:00 AM CEST

Chris Tolbert said: "I think part of living in a city is having an accessible, pedestrian-friendly walkable neighborhood, both for safety purposes as well as for recreational purposes,"

startribune Thursday, July 15, 2021 4:50:00 AM CEST

Chris Tolbert said: "Part of our complete street policy is, where we can, we add sidewalks," "And so that's most residential streets and it's a pretty big exception not to get sidewalks"

startribune Thursday, July 15, 2021 12:18:00 AM CEST

Chris Tolbert said: "I think part of living in a city is having an accessible, pedestrian-friendly walkable neighborhood, both for safety purposes as well as for recreational purposes,"

startribune Thursday, July 15, 2021 12:18:00 AM CEST

Bill Anderson said: "The CFIA is pleased to see these bins being used to help to stop the spread of harmful pests into and within P.E.I.,"

CBC Monday, July 12, 2021 12:15:00 PM CEST

Brian Stone said: “Trees are, quite simply, the most effective strategy, technology, we have to guard against heat in cities,”

dtnext Wednesday, July 7, 2021 5:44:00 AM CEST

David Novak said: "You're trading one risk for another," "Branches falling, and having to clean up branches, versus having to clean up broken rooftops"

straitstimesSG Saturday, July 3, 2021 6:01:00 AM CEST

Jonathan Gano said: "You could have 99 per cent mortality and still be in the money 20 years from now on canopy," "I planted a bunch on my property and about 50 per cent of them have survived. One of them's 11 feet tall now"

straitstimesSG Saturday, July 3, 2021 6:01:00 AM CEST

Jason Meyer said: "If the logger doesn't have a market for balsam fir, sometimes we'll have them lay the trees down, so they're flat on the ground and can rot a lot faster than if they were left standing,"

startribune Saturday, June 26, 2021 11:21:00 PM CEST

Matt Russell said: "What concerns me right now is our oaks and pines,"

startribune Saturday, June 26, 2021 11:21:00 PM CEST

Matt Russell said: "If we see another few weeks without rain, I would start to be more concerned about all of our forests,"

startribune Saturday, June 26, 2021 11:21:00 PM CEST

Rick Hansen said: “The hostage taking is over and the clean cars rule can proceed,”

twincities Saturday, June 26, 2021 3:02:00 AM CEST

Robert Jarvis told: "I think there's a natural beauty and affinity with wood generally"

barrie Saturday, June 26, 2021 12:10:00 AM CEST

Robert Jarvis said: "We've made beehives out of it, chopsticks, there's just tons of things that you can do with it really,"

barrie Saturday, June 26, 2021 12:10:00 AM CEST

Gene Kritsky explains: “We are in the death throes of the adults right now,” “The cicadas are dying in big numbers. I think I was looking around the woods here today I could probably find half a dozen adults”

fox19 Thursday, June 24, 2021 9:41:00 PM CEST

Gene Kritsky adds: “This has been a textbook periodical cicada year, and there’s something comforting about that,” “We don’t know when the pandemic’s gonna end. When will we be back to normal, but the cicadas did what we thought they would do? Science got this one right”

fox19 Thursday, June 24, 2021 9:41:00 PM CEST

Gene Kritsky says: “What we need to watch out for next is flagging, and that’s the evidence of the female egg-laying and what you’re going to see is the ends of tree branches turning brown,” “In some cases, they will break and sort of dangle, that’s why we call it flagging”

fox19 Thursday, June 24, 2021 9:41:00 PM CEST

Gene Kritsky explains: “Other areas did report fewer, and that’s not surprising,” “We’ve lost a lot of ash trees, and if that ash tree died several years ago, all of the cicadas feeding on that tree would die with it”

fox19 Thursday, June 24, 2021 9:41:00 PM CEST

Gene Kritsky says: “In 2004 [the last Brood X emergence], we didn’t have the iPhone yet,” “We couldn’t even envision it yet. And so, it changed how we do citizen science with cicadas in particular”

fox19 Thursday, June 24, 2021 9:41:00 PM CEST

Gene Kritsky explains: “I’ve had people e-mailing me saying, ‘we didn’t get any at all,’ well, just you wait,”

fox19 Thursday, June 24, 2021 9:41:00 PM CEST

Chris Tolbert said: "They go into forestry because they love trees and they love nature, not to try and take down trees, and they've had to take down trees for the last decade,"

startribune Thursday, June 24, 2021 5:10:00 AM CEST

Chris Tolbert said: "We have this baby tree, and I sit out there at night watering it ... because I know what it's like not having them,"

startribune Thursday, June 24, 2021 5:10:00 AM CEST

Andre Philippe explique: «Les arbres en santé vont survivre, mais évidemment, ça peut ralentir la croissance des arbres qui sont défoliés de façon importante»

journaldemontreal Wednesday, June 23, 2021 9:09:00 PM CEST

Kim Driscoll said: “That was the beginning of the end,” “I am someone who is OK with bugs, spiders and wasps and beetles, until these things came”

TorontoStar Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:51:00 AM CEST

Kim Driscoll said: “They try to find a tree; they love oak trees,”

TorontoStar Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:51:00 AM CEST

Brian Porter said: “A tree can stand being defoliated one year and if it’s early enough, they might even be able to put out more leaves,” “But two years in a row, you’ll likely lose the tree”

TorontoStar Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:51:00 AM CEST

Kim Driscoll said: “I feel a real need to do something,”

TorontoStar Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:51:00 AM CEST

Kim Driscoll said: “Hand-picking would be fine if we were still in Peterborough, where we had a tree in our front yard, and a century tree in our backyard,” “We could have handled two trees”

TorontoStar Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:51:00 AM CEST

Kim Driscoll said: “I think everyone in the year of COVID is just doing the very best they can with that and this is just one more thing in this really weird time in history,”

TorontoStar Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:51:00 AM CEST

Kim Driscoll believes: “I think typically the plan is for private owners to speak with their community, and say: ‘Hey, does anyone want to get together and make plans for next year to have an aerial spray?’”

TorontoStar Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:51:00 AM CEST

Kim Driscoll said: “I have a real understanding of invasive species, and how bad they are,” “I mean I know they were but when you’re living it, you realize it’s just so destructive to a natural habitat”

TorontoStar Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:51:00 AM CEST

William Anderson says: “While CFIA sets the standards for plant health in Canada, we don’t safeguard Canada’s plants on our own. We work with other departments and organizations. We also rely on the help of citizen scientists,”

chathamdailynews Friday, June 11, 2021 5:34:00 PM CEST

Michael Sullivan said: “Rather than dwell on loss, we celebrate the fact that we have over 100 children on our reservation that speak our language highly proficiently as the result of our immersion efforts,” “We haven’t been able to say that in over 70 years in our community”

wausaudailyherald Tuesday, June 8, 2021 1:15:00 PM CEST

Michael Sullivan said: “Ojibwe is the widest-taught North America Indigenous language,” “There are a growing number of other immersion schools and programs emerging across the vast territory in which Ojibwe is spoken”

wausaudailyherald Tuesday, June 8, 2021 1:15:00 PM CEST

Laurence Lavigne Lalonde ajouté: «Ça peut sembler banal de planter un arbre et de déminéraliser un petit secteur de la Ville, mais ce sont des gestes qui portent fruit et qui ont un impact sur la qualité de vie des gens»

journaldemontreal Monday, June 7, 2021 11:54:00 PM CEST

Scott Waguespack told: “A lot of those private trees — the properties are owned by senior citizens who can’t afford to take some of those trees down or trim ’em,”

suntimes Monday, June 7, 2021 10:22:00 PM CEST

Derrick Curtis said: “We know that trees don’t grow in alleys. But what property owners have done is build a fence. They’ll go right around that tree and make it look like that tree is a city tree in the alley,” “We definitely have to … let the property owners know that this is not the city’s tree. You are responsible for this tree”

suntimes Monday, June 7, 2021 10:22:00 PM CEST

Jennifer Smith said: "In my professional lifetime, this will be the biggest issue I deal with,"

newschannel5 Friday, May 21, 2021 12:10:00 AM CEST

Jennifer Smith said: "Treat it, have it cut down or let it fall. Each one is unique and has different issues associated with it,"

newschannel5 Friday, May 21, 2021 12:10:00 AM CEST

Jennifer Smith said: "Unfortunately, having your tree removed is expensive and treating your tree is expensive,"

newschannel5 Friday, May 21, 2021 12:10:00 AM CEST

Paul Gazelka said: "We just have a disagreement about the emissions standards,"

startribune Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00:00 AM CEST

Rick Hansen said: "It's going to be extremely difficult," "This is unprecedented, unnecessary and unproductive. We can't let the parks shut down"

startribune Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00:00 AM CEST

Steve Morse said: "People expect our leaders to work together and do their basic job," "This is a fundamental breakdown of what is really a simple task"

startribune Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00:00 AM CEST

David O Brien indique: «Dans le cadre de sa lutte à l’agrile du frêne, la Ville a toujours comme objectif de remplacer l’ensemble des arbres qui sont abattus, lorsque possible»

lesoleil-ca Monday, May 17, 2021 12:34:00 PM CEST

David O Brien rappelle: «La Ville a annoncé l’automne dernier des investissements supplémentaires de 30 millions $ sur 7 ans afin de pouvoir atteindre un objectif de 100 000 arbres plantés d’ici 2027»

lesoleil-ca Monday, May 17, 2021 12:34:00 PM CEST

Peter Johnston says: “We have much better control over watering now, because you can go to a computer and turn all the systems on or off at the push of a button – instead of me running around to 90 different controllers on campus and manually shutting them off,”

utoronto Friday, May 14, 2021 12:06:00 AM CEST

Scott Ling says: “It’s always unfortunate to have to remove trees, and a concerted effort was made to keep as many trees as possible based on the space planning requirements, particularly when it came to constructing the underground parking garage and the geoexchange field,” “This construction is also crucial to enabling the just to the north of that area”

utoronto Friday, May 14, 2021 12:06:00 AM CEST

Hanni Rutzler beschreibt: „Regionale Entwicklung heißt nicht nur, dass man zur Tradition zurück muss“

kurier Thursday, May 13, 2021 4:28:00 PM CEST

Hanni Rutzler sagt: „Da fehlt es vielfach noch an Fantasie“

kurier Thursday, May 13, 2021 4:28:00 PM CEST

Linda Williams said: “In Wisconsin, our native ash trees are green ash, white ash, and black ash. Emerald Ash Borer is really good at killing them. It will kill almost 100% of all of the ash trees that we see. It will eventually kill them. It’s important for people to know that this is on the way,”

wsau Monday, May 10, 2021 2:46:00 PM CEST

Nancy Pelosi said: "It is for the good of the community and we encourage people to have as much community support for a project as possible, and so I'm very proud of it,"

foxnews Friday, May 7, 2021 9:33:00 PM CEST

Jennifer Sullivan said: “It’s kind of raised the question of, well, were marten always doing as poorly as they were in the 1990s, or was it that we weren’t looking hard enough?”

thechronicleherald Friday, April 23, 2021 5:52:00 AM CEST

Dan Kraus said: “If you find a bug that you think looks like an emerald ash borer, load it up on iNaturalist, because that early detection and management can be really helpful for some invasive species,”

thechronicleherald Friday, April 23, 2021 5:52:00 AM CEST

Mike Foley said: “For many reasons, Brooklyn -- like most Cuyahoga County cities -- has seen a net decline in canopy,”

cleveland Thursday, April 22, 2021 2:57:00 PM CEST

Mike Foley said (about Katie Gallagher): “Mayor Gallagher and her administration understand that planting trees is important,” “They understand that this work is about the long-term health and welfare of Brooklyn and that trees planted last year and this year will be around and contributing to the city for the next 50 to 75 years”

cleveland Thursday, April 22, 2021 2:57:00 PM CEST

Blaine Pedersen said: “Manitobans can all play a part in protecting our province from invasive species, many of which can have significant ecological impacts on our province,” “This week is about making sure Manitobans are aware of how invasive species can affect our environment, and what we can do to ensure we keep our waters and landscapes healthy”

agenparl Monday, April 19, 2021 2:29:00 PM CEST

Gene Kritsky said: "About 35 million Americans will have the opportunity to interact with Brood X,"

fox10tv Friday, April 16, 2021 2:17:00 PM CEST

Gene Kritsky said: "We're hoping that people will go out and tell us where cicadas emerge," "Once we approve that photograph, it goes live on our map so people can actually follow the emergence as it happens, day by day"

fox10tv Friday, April 16, 2021 2:17:00 PM CEST

Gene Kritsky said: "Back in the 1890s, the USDA thought cicadas were going extinct,"

fox10tv Friday, April 16, 2021 2:17:00 PM CEST

Gene Kritsky said: "We had the first time we could document an off-cycle emergence. Seventeen years later they came out in even bigger numbers,"

fox10tv Friday, April 16, 2021 2:17:00 PM CEST

Gene Kritsky said: "My hope is that we'll get a good baseline this year, to serve as a way of really verifying the way the cicada emergences of the future take place," "I'm 67, but I'll be very interested to see how Brood X compares when it comes out again in 2038"

fox10tv Friday, April 16, 2021 2:17:00 PM CEST

Gene Kritsky said: "About 35 million Americans will have the opportunity to interact with Brood X,"

cnn-special Friday, April 16, 2021 1:03:00 PM CEST

Gene Kritsky said: "Back in the 1890s, the USDA thought cicadas were going extinct,"

cnn-special Friday, April 16, 2021 1:03:00 PM CEST

Gene Kritsky said: "We had the first time we could document an off-cycle emergence. Seventeen years later they came out in even bigger numbers,"

cnn-special Friday, April 16, 2021 1:03:00 PM CEST

Brian Morris said: “The private sector doesn’t like the idea of competing with public nurseries,”

floridanewstimes Monday, April 12, 2021 10:52:00 PM CEST

Ryan Gordon said: “It’s much harder for them to enter that market, because a commercial nursery isn’t very interested in an order for 100 trees,”

floridanewstimes Monday, April 12, 2021 10:52:00 PM CEST

Tim Adams said: “We can still determine the selections to be offered at a price that we set,”

floridanewstimes Monday, April 12, 2021 10:52:00 PM CEST

Marvin Brown said: “A white oak that does well in Minnesota is not the same genotype as one that does well in Missouri,”

floridanewstimes Monday, April 12, 2021 10:52:00 PM CEST

Chris Chandler says: “We’ve been saving nature from people, not for people,”

discovermagazine Friday, April 9, 2021 7:13:00 PM CEST

Chris Chandler says: “We’re looking to extensively green up these corridors that run alongside major highways,”

discovermagazine Friday, April 9, 2021 7:13:00 PM CEST

Sarah Koenig said: “With these pests, it’s important to identify and manage them because they have the potential to wipe out dozens of tree species,”

triblive Thursday, April 8, 2021 11:17:00 AM CEST

John Rea said: "Vegetation management along power lines helps keep the lights on for our customers and allows our line crews to more quickly restore service after storms,"

streetinsider Wednesday, April 7, 2021 9:11:00 PM CEST

Steve Schneider said: “We stayed within the same three acres for the past 17 years,”

twincities Tuesday, March 30, 2021 2:15:00 AM CEST

Thomas Connor said: “They were dying, and they needed to be taken out,”

dailypostusa Monday, March 29, 2021 11:30:00 PM CEST

Tom Colella said: “Our aim right now is to really find out where our ash trees are, how many we have and if we have ones that are salvageable,”

dailypostusa Monday, March 29, 2021 11:30:00 PM CEST

Tom Colella said: “You’ll see kind of bare bark, it’s blonding, it’s indicative of a woodpecker in the tree for some kind of insect. They’ll feed on the emerald ash borer,”

dailypostusa Monday, March 29, 2021 11:30:00 PM CEST

David Barnes said: “It tells us there is an infestation in this tree, and combined with small little branches, sucker growth on the tree,”

dailypostusa Monday, March 29, 2021 11:30:00 PM CEST

David Cotton said: “This tree is a time bomb waiting to fall over,”

newsnow-co-uk Monday, March 29, 2021 11:19:00 PM CEST

David Barnes said: "the end game is to remove the tree," "Once you cut down the tree the sap stops flowing and the larvae die"

newsday-USA Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:56:00 PM CET

Mark Jones said: "Every project is customized and designed to address the particular reliability needs of each community where work is being done,"

tdworld Tuesday, March 23, 2021 4:42:00 AM CET

Greg Foran said: “Trees can cause serious problems, especially when they’re not planted in the right place or maintained, that’s why it’s so important that we work together with Eversource to address tree issues that impact reliable power delivery before storms, not after,”

ctpost Thursday, March 18, 2021 7:03:00 PM CET

Nick Austin said: "Penelec is committed to enhancing customer service reliability, and our vegetation management program is one of the most important things we do every year to help maintain our electric system and restore power quickly after storms,"

4-traders Wednesday, April 7, 2021 8:47:00 PM CEST

Paul Coyle said: "There really aren't a lot of management options for the emerald ash borer, unfortunately," "It's exciting to hear that they've done something that could potentially work"

startribune Thursday, March 11, 2021 1:08:00 AM CET

Robert Meier says: “The pricing has nothing do with the cost of production,”

TheFrontierPost-en Wednesday, March 10, 2021 11:04:00 PM CET

Robert Meier explains: “The mathematics smallholders make is that income equals price times volume,”

TheFrontierPost-en Wednesday, March 10, 2021 11:04:00 PM CET

Robert Meier says: “Demand outpaced even the most bullish predictions,”

TheFrontierPost-en Wednesday, March 10, 2021 11:04:00 PM CET

Katrina Cornish says: “In Indonesia, there is a big opportunity to increase yield,”

TheFrontierPost-en Wednesday, March 10, 2021 11:04:00 PM CET

Katrina Cornish says: “The increase in production needs to be filled by alternatives, not Hevea ,”

TheFrontierPost-en Wednesday, March 10, 2021 11:04:00 PM CET

Katrina Cornish warns: “Just don’t call it the Russian dandelion,” “It’s from Kazakhstan, they get quite annoyed by that”

TheFrontierPost-en Wednesday, March 10, 2021 11:04:00 PM CET

Katrina Cornish says: “Cars are the biggest share of the rubber market, and if every if every African family ends up with two cars, that’s a heck of a lot of rubber,”

TheFrontierPost-en Wednesday, March 10, 2021 11:04:00 PM CET

Robert Meier says: “I’m not doing this to get rich or stay rich for one quarter or two, I need to look at the long term,” “What I’m looking for is a sustainable supply, that doesn’t run contrary to human conscience”

TheFrontierPost-en Wednesday, March 10, 2021 11:04:00 PM CET

Warren “ Smokey ” Thomas adds: “We must support smallholder farmers to do the best they can, make them resilient to price shocks – improving productivity systems and allowing them to have secondary crops. Ultimately further deforestation for these cash crops is bad news for climate, bad news for biodiversity, bad news for people, and needs to be thought about carefully indeed”

TheFrontierPost-en Wednesday, March 10, 2021 11:04:00 PM CET

Katrina Cornish says: “Just think of emerald ash borer, elm disease, pine beetle – you can lose an entire species, billions of trees, and you can’t just replace 40 million tonnes (39 million tons) of rubber when the whole lot dies in a year,”

TheFrontierPost-en Wednesday, March 10, 2021 11:04:00 PM CET

Katrina Cornish says: “We have enough dandelion seed to put in 40 hectares (0.15 sq miles) of vertical farm, and 3,000 hectares (11.6 sq miles) of guayule, but we need the funds to do it,” “We need some of those billionaires to get involved. I am determined to get this established before I die. We’ve got to get it to work. The consequences to the developed world if the crop fails are unthinkable”

TheFrontierPost-en Wednesday, March 10, 2021 11:04:00 PM CET

Robert Meier says: "The pricing has nothing do with the cost of production,"