Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FRANKLIN ― It would be hard to overstate the importance of the black ash tree to the Abenaki people of Vermont. Not only does it ...

In northern Wisconsin, April Stone is carrying on a centuries-old Ojibwe practice of basket making. She uses wood from the black ash tree, a cultural keystone species that's now under threat from the ...

Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin member Sherri LaChapelle-Corn (Pitapanukiw) lectured on the plight of the black ash tree and taught a traditional basket weaving class for the Wisconsin Science ...

Joann Kelly Catsos makes her baskets from black ash 50 to 70 years old. An Ashley Falls neighbor has land bordering the Housatonic River, and in the swampy stretch along the river bank, ash trees grow ...

FRANKLIN ― It would be hard to overstate the importance of the black ash tree to the Abenaki people of Vermont. Not only does it provide the perfect material for their traditional basket-making, but ...