Jade Harrell with Skip Kincaid, Forestry Commissioner City of St. Louis and Donna Coble, Executive Director Forest ReLeaf of Missouri.
A tiny green exotic wood-boring insect called the emerald ash borer (EAB) is invading the City of St. Louis’ popular ash trees. Since 2002, the EAB has been killing all untreated ash trees in cities they have infested. They burrow into the trees, damage their veins and cut off their water supply. Once dry and brittle, ash trees can fall and damage people and
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The City of St. Louis Forestry Division takes the EAB problem very seriously and is being proactive before stopping the insect becomes much more difficult, dangerous and costly to manage. It has created a five-year plan that combines the lessons learned from other cities that have been infested by the EAB. unnamed1For instance, several cities decided not to remove their ash trees until they died. Then they realized they could not keep up with the mounting number of dead trees or the cost of removing them.
Here in Chicago after discovering God sent cure back in 2008 transforming each treated tree into supersized EAB bug zappers. Today our remaining specimens only require low-dose-reinoculations every 4th or 5th Year. As of 2018 even unprotected trees lucky enough to still be alive have already began remarkably recovering once fatal infestation population permanently passes. Today EAB no longer has enough living trees to exponentially rebuild to fatal levels.
Of course while we begin paying our respects keep a proud eye out for few of St Louis most historic structurally sound specimens having just spent their first 150 yrs slowly preparing to live out an additional 150 years or more. Just like George Washington's pops 275-year-old planted white ash tree being whose mother tree stood over 350 years.
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