The black ash tree is culturally significant to indigenous communities and has been used to make baskets for generations.
But tribal researchers and the U-S-D-A predict that grown black ash trees across the Great Lakes region will be wiped out by 2040.
Deb McCullough is a forest entomologist at Michigan State University and one of the co-authors of the report.
She's been studying emerald ash borers since they first landed in Michigan two decades ago.
"It's like a, an ecological catastrophe that's happening right in front of us...this is not something that's taking decades and decades to happen. It's going on right now."
McCullough says methods to save trees, like insecticides and biological control, have been largely unsuccessful.
