City May Spend $1.5M to Remove Ash Borer
The City of Highland Park may need to shell out $1.52 million over the next five years to remove trees that are expected to become infected with emerald ash borer.
The City of Highland Park may need to shell out $1.52 million over the next five years to remove trees that are expected to become infected with emerald ash borer, TribLocal reports. Want Highland Park news in your inbox? Subscribe to Patch's newsletter. Highland Park has 4,125 ash trees trees on public parkway and about 2,000 more on publicly maintained areas like bicycle trails, according to TribLocal. The plan calls for removing all ash trees and replacing them with another kind, according to the Highland Park News. The newspaper reports that chemical treatment is not part of the plan. Emerald ash borer is an exotic beetle that was discovered in southeastern Michigan near Detroit in the summer of 2002, according to Emerald Ash Borer …
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Michael Ioffe
8:55 am on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Dear posters, please inform local and central government if you can. We could create millions of local jobs in all states in USA RIGHT NOW. Harvest of 2013, profit from energy production, reduction on emergency spending will cover all our expenses after 8 months. Farmers, unemployed from housing, forestry, have skills, machinery, and will to make it happen: Killer beetles destroyed more than 100,… more ›