Jamie Diane Ratchford is a photojournalist and environmental storyteller.
Threatened Forests
Most of the mature Ash trees at Tinker Nature Park in Pittsford, New York have been killed by an invasive insect called the Emerald Ash Borer. Nationwide the Ash tree population is falling.
A series of tunnels, called galleries, wind their way through a dead Ash tree at Tinker Nature Park in Pittsford, New York seen here on September 8, 2022. The galleries are caused by the invasive insect the Emerald Ash Borer which have been devastating the Ash tree population nationwide.
Ash trees are dying en masse at Tinker Nature Park in Pittsford, New York seen here on September 8, 2022. An invasive species of insect, called the Emerald Ash Borer, has killed more than 70 percent of Ash trees nationwide.
Seneca Zoo naturalists, Joe and Jen, guide an Invasive Species Identification Hike on at Highland Park in Rochester, N.Y. on Nov.13, 2022. Egg sacs of the Hemlock Wooly Adelgid were detected on several Eastern Hemlock trees.
Seneca Zoo naturalists, Joe and Jen, guide an Invasive Species Identification Hike on at Highland Park in Rochester, N.Y. on Nov.13, 2022.This is the underside of a healthy tree however egg sacs of the Hemlock Wooly Adelgid were detected on several Eastern Hemlock trees nearby.
Egg sacs of the Hemlock Wooly Adelgid were detected on several Eastern Hemlock trees in Highland Park in Rochester, N.Y.
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