Ash Trees

Growing up in North Dakota, we were raised to be a conservative family of tree-huggers.  We got that from Dad.

I have a deep and abiding love of green and black ash trees, so it deeply saddens me to drive through the streets of St. Paul and see block after block of ash trees with the green plastic band around them.

These trees are all to be kept down in the rear guard, band aid attempt by foresters and public officials to limit the spread of the deadly emerald ash borer.
 This invasive Asian beetle is here to stay, and will lead to forestation Armageddon. It is reality and is mostly unstoppable. It is one of those nasty realities that we can neither avoid or deny.