HomeGrown 05/10/09 - Emerald Ash Borer & Mtn. Top Reclamation

HomeGrown offers some good tree news and some bad tree news this week with a look at the emerald ash borer invasion in the Louisville area – and a program to grow trees in Appalachian areas destroyed by mining. Purdue University’s Jodi Ellis catches up listeners on the emerald ash borer – and yes, it is here – and Dr. Patrick Angel of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior explains a new and working program for restarting forests in the Appalachian mountains. Downloadable MP3Find out more:

• Exotic Invasive Pests web page at Purdue
• Emerald Ash Borer
• Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
• Forestry Reclamation Approach (FRA)
• Mine Sites to Become Verdant Stands of Hardwood