Farm: Long Point Basin Land Trust launches campaign to save old growth eastern hemlocks

NORFOLK—Long Point Basin Land Trust (LPBLT) has launched a fundraising and awareness campaign to help protect some of the largest recorded eastern hemlocks in Canada from an invasive pest that is spreading across southwestern Ontario. Hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) is a small, invasive insect that feeds on eastern hemlocks and can quickly kill mature trees. As HWA spreads, previously unaffected…