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  1. Christmas Trees Offer Many Environmental Benefits — And You Can Put a Dollar Sign Next to Them

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/christmas-trees-offer-many-environmental-benefits-%E2%80%94-and-you-can-put-dollar-sign-next

    up." A blue spruce with a 2-inch-diameter trunk growing on a Christmas tree farm in, say, Doylestown in ... runoff and reduction of atmospheric carbon by 20 pounds. Meanwhile, a Scotch pine at that same location ... blue spruce planted in Columbus in front of a single-family home, for example, will provide $12 every ...

  2. Media Advisory: Ohio State Experts Available to Speak on Bees and Pesticides

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/media-advisory-ohio-state-experts-available-speak-bees-and-pesticides

    Dave Shetlar,  a professor in the Department of Entomology based in Columbus, described a less-toxic ...  Shetlar specializes in pests of turfgrass and landscape plants. Johnson, Ellsworth and Shetlar have ...

  3. The Tree Course- Trees of the Great Eastern Forest- Field Recognition

    https://ocvn.osu.edu/events/tree-course-trees-great-eastern-forest-field-recognition

    in hand, and by the bark when a tree’s leaves are too high in the canopy to clearly see. Topics of ...

  4. Researchers Investigate Nursery Stock Bark Splitting

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/researchers-investigate-nursery-stock-bark-splitting

    January 3, 2006 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nursery tree stock throughout Ohio is suffering from bark ... felt that bark splitting was something that was easy to diagnose. But what is happening here is ... unusual." Bark splitting, or cracking, occurs on thin-barked trees and most commonly on the southwest side ...

  5. Ohio State Scientist: EPA's Alert on Imprelis is Warranted

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/ohio-state-scientist-epas-alert-imprelis-warranted

    including to Norway spruce and white pine, after Imprelis was used. On Aug. 11, the EPA issued an order to ...

  6. Ohio Christmas Tree Association honors Dave Shetlar

    https://students.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/ohio-christmas-tree-association-honors-dave-shetlar

    We’re pleased to inform you that Dave Shetlar, Entomology, has been elected to the Hall of Fame of ...

  7. Horse Resources

    https://medina.osu.edu/program-areas/agriculture-and-natural-resources/horse-resources

        VIDEO: Tips on Buying Horse Hay:    Factsheets Help! My Horse is Too Thin! University of ...

  8. Ohio State Experts on Emerald Ash Borer (Updated February 2007)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/ohio-state-experts-emerald-ash-borer-updated-february-2007

    Conducts research on resistance of different species of ash to EAB and insecticides. —David Shetlar, OSU ... Extension entomologist, (614) 292-3762 or shetlar.1@osu.edu: Member of the Ohio Emerald Ash Borer Task ...

  9. Use Glyphosate Properly to Protect Woody Plants

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/use-glyphosate-properly-protect-woody-plants

    improperly or in too high of a dosage is causing a phenomenon known as split bark-- where, through the ... tree's uptake, the chemical is deteriorating the bark structure and destroying the winter hardiness of ... industry from bark cracking is conservatively estimated at $6.6 million a year. That's roughly 2.5 ...

  10. Forest Products Industry: Learn about EAB Quarantines, How to Stay in Business April 23 in Holmes Co.

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/forest-products-industry-learn-about-eab-quarantines-how-stay-business-april-23-holmes

    die within three to five years. The pest belongs to a group of metallic wood-boring beetles. Adults ... beneath the bark of ash trees, and when they emerge as adults, leave D-shaped exit holes in the bark about ...

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