This is sad....removing Ash trees (Minneapolis, St. Paul: house, neighborhoods, station)

[golfgal]

St. Paul begins removing ailing ash trees along Lexington Parkway - TwinCities.com

We lost some HUGE trees to Dutch Elm when I was younger...now we are going to see the same devastation from the Emerald Ash Borer....

[MplsTodd]

I agree! I saw lots of red bands around trees in SW Minneapolis when I was back in town a few weeks ago. It will take many years for the streetscape to grow into the arching canopy that we used to have 10 years ago.

[golfgal]

A lot of these Ash trees were planted to replace the Elm trees too. The house I grew up in used to have a canopied street, when they cut down the elms-5 of them in front of our house-they replaced them with 2 1" diameter trees.

[Ghengis]

our arborist at work told me last year that within 10 to 15 years basically all he ash trees in the metro will be gone. remains to be seen how the cold temps this winter may have stemmed the spread of the EAB.

[pete6032]

Here's an idea. Don't plant blocks and blocks of the same tree. Instead plant a variety of trees on each block so when this stuff happens you don't have to decimate the tree canopies of entire neighborhoods.

[Mdcastle]

Watch some pest infest Autumn Blaze Maples in a few years.

[Kayekaye]

Doing the same thing NE too, taking down Ash trees.

Yes who's bright idea was it to plant only ONE kind of tree to replace the elm? Sheesh.