Source: WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 9/8/16

An entomologist with the U.S. Forest Service says a beetle from Asia that is destroying ash trees across the country will arrive in western North Carolina in the next few years.
The Asheville Citizen-Times reports (http://avlne.ws/2c1EdW6) Paul Merten has spent nearly a decade chasing down the emerald ash borer.

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