During the first half of the 20th century, many of the elms in North America and Europe were stunted or killed by Dutch Elm Disease. Dutch Elm Disease (DED) is a serious micro-fungal infection which was first reported in the United States in the late 1920s. The fungus is carried tree to tree by the elm bark beetle,… Read more »
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Roselle City Council Votes to Save Their Ash Trees
Earlier this month Roselle, Illinois City Council voted to save 635 of their parkway ash trees out of approximately 1,700 that were inventoried under a Federal grant they had obtained earlier in 2011. The Emerald Ash Borer Treatment contract was awarded to Emerald Tree Care LLC. A story recently broke about what the village is doing… Read more »