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Article: Como Park residents give nod to fell ash trees; A St. Paul experiment to slow ash borer will raze all ash trees in a two-block area and replace them with a different species.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- October 28, 2009
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Byline: CHRIS HAVENS; STAFF WRITER
Miles Gregoire is going to miss the big, leafy trees that line his block in St. Paul's Como Park neighborhood.
Most of them are ash. Instead of prolonging their inevitable demise to the destructive emerald ash borer, he and his neighbors are going along with a city plan to remove 40 trees on two blocks and plant new ones.
No ash borer bugs have been found on his block of W. California Avenue yet, but the ash trees aren't as healthy as they used to be.
"It's hard, but I've seen the trees decline," Gregoire said.
He was joined by about 20 neighbors Tuesday night at a meeting to discuss the ...