That’s the question I tackle in my Monitor column this week (read it here).
Spoiler alert: Variety is the spice of long life.
The photo taken in lat June shows a giant ash I stumbled across in 2018 and previously wrote about. To my pleasant surprise, it is still thriving despite emerald ash borer. Here’s a picture giving a better sense of the size of the trunk:
![Me and giant ash tree](https://granitegeek.concordmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ash-tree-lynd-7-1024x1024.jpg)