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Yesterday qualifies as a day of contrasts. There was a sharp wind accompanying what looked like small kernels of snow. It was the kind of snow that was considered perfect for skiing when I lived in Salt Lake City. After … Continue reading
Category Archives: Ash Borer
From the Daily Herald: Game, set, match to emerald ash borer: With the Illinois Department of Agriculture having given up on trying to contain the emerald ash borer, it’s not hard to understand the village of Arlington Heights pulling out … Continue reading
In shopping areas on both sides of Crystal Lake’s Route 14 ash trees are dying. Shows what happens when property owners don’t take preventive action as I am doing with our ash tree in Lakewood. I know that one other … Continue reading
I sent my April 23rd story to Wayne White, the Board Certified Master Arborist who is going to make my ask tree probably the only one left in Crystal Lake’s and Lakewood’s Country Club Additions subdivision to see if I had … Continue reading
Master Arborist Wayne White was in town today spraying insecticide around the trunk of the ash tree that shades our bedroom. He was so busy, he wrote on a note I found by my front door, that he didn’t have … Continue reading
Last night I wrote that I hadn’t seen Wayne White, the Master Arborist who has been treating my ash tree for the Emerald Ash Borer since 2008. He’s usually in Crystal Lake at the end of the first week of … Continue reading
Spring was late this year and so was Wayne White, arch foe of the Emerald Ash Borer. White drives his truck from Michigan to treat trees in Illinois and Wisconsin. He comes with the message that ash trees will die … Continue reading
Algonquin has apparently made it decision to do nothing to try to save the 4,400 ash trees found on public property. The village’s most recent reaction to the Emerald Ash Borer, according to the First Electric Newspaper, is to buy … Continue reading
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin sent out a press release about a month ago listing Illinois cities “infested by (the) Emerald Ash Borer” that would get $10,000 to a couple of tens of thousands of dollars. I’ve finally read his press … Continue reading
It seems strange to me, but the official announcement of the emerald ash borer’s having invaded McHenry County has come from the Village of Algonquin. The daisy chain starts with folks who send the collected insect specimen to Brighton, Michigan. … Continue reading