How important are ash trees to Wisconsin?
About 20 percent of our street trees are ash, and the loss of these trees would be devastating to many communities and very expensive to remove and replace. There are also approximately 727 million ash trees in Wisconsin’s forests. Ash is an important species in our northern and southern forests and a key component of forests growing in wet areas including swamps and along river ways. Wisconsin’s forest industry also relies on ash for paper, furniture, millwork and dozens of other forest products.
