The Emerald Ash borer infestation that began in 2002 and
slowly spread across Ontario and then into Quebec has made a big leap to
Bedford, N.S.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has imposed restrictions
on moving any wood out of Halifax County in an effort to contain that
infestation.
Before this discovery, the furthest east the pest had been
found was in Western New Brunswick.
The insects have left a tragic landscape of dead ash trees
all across most of Ontario and Southern Quebec.
