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An invasive insect is killing a beloved tree by the tens of millions.
Cities have no choice but to cut down the dead ash trees. But in one city, a group of people is preserving the wood that would otherwise be wasted. They're turning the trees into flooring and support beams for a new library. It will be a permanent exhibit on the destruction an imported pest can cause.
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An invasive insect is killing a beloved tree by the tens of millions. Cities have no choice but to cut down the dead ash trees. But in one city, a group of people is preserving the wood that would otherwise be wasted. They're turning the trees into flooring and support beams for a new library. It will be a permanent exhibit on the destruction an imported pest can cause.
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LESSONS FROM INSECT INFESTED WOOD
Lester Graham
March 12, 2007
Ash trees are dying by the millions because of an infestation of a foreign bug. In one town, they're using the dead wood to help build a library. Lester Graham reports the wood beams and flooring will be a permanent exhibit to remind visitors of the trees that were once there and the cost of imported pests:
Craig Novotney is driving a team of black draft horses, some young Percherons, through a wood lot. They're dragging a pretty good sized log out into the open to be trucked away and turned into lumber. They could have used a bulldozer to do this job, but that would have damaged a lot of the other trees in these woods:
"It's a lot less impact on the forest floor. You don't ruin near as much stuff, you know, getting it out with horses. It's a kind of lighter approach to it."
Sixty ash trees have been cut down on...
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Host intro: Ash trees are dying by the millions because of an infestation of a foreign bug. In one town, they're using the dead wood to help build a library. Lester Graham reports the wood beams and flooring will be a permanent exhibit to remind visitors of the trees that were once there and the cost of imported pests:.
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