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More Tennessee Counties Added To Emerald Ash Borer Quarantine

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The Tennessee Department of Agriculture has added six counties to a quarantine of ash trees and ash tree products.

Putnam County in Middle Tennessee, and the state’s five most northeastern counties (Sullivan, Washington, Unicoi, Carter, Johnson), have all been added to a quarantine that prohibits the movement of firewood, ash nursery stock, ash timber, and other material.

Now, 27 Tennessee counties are under that quarantine.

The emerald ash borer appeared in Michigan about 20 years ago and has killed millions of ash trees since. The beetle was first detected in Tennessee in Knox County in 2010.

The state Department of Agriculture reports that ash accounts for about 3% of Tennessee’s trees. There are about five million urban ash trees at risk in Tennessee, plus about 261 million ash trees on public and private timberland.

Chrissy served as WUOT's News Director and host of monthly public affairs talk show Dialogue from late 2021 to early 2023. Her first job with the station was as weekend student announcer while earning her bachelor's in Anthropology from the University of Tennessee. She had previously been the station's local host for NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered news programs; occasionally filled in as host for WUOT's Morning and Afternoon Concerts; and won multiple awards for her interviews, feature stories, and Dialogue.