I’m pessimistic about the ash trees. It seems unlikely that a fungus that killed 90 per cent of Denmark’s trees and spreads by air will not be devastating here, too. There is a glimmer of hope in the fact that ash, unlike elms, reproduce sexually so they are not clones — uniformly vulnerable to the pathogen.
Matt Ridley
Losing the ashes
The Forestry Commission’s carbon fetish is to blame for the failure to act sooner to save our trees

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