Hello tree loving folks! Our City Forester, Jacob Ryg, has been approached by the University of Minnesota to assist in a project which will study ways to prepare, manage and respond to the threat of Emerald ash borer (EAB). One of the tasks is to collect data on about 2500 trees (public and private). Professor Gary Johnson will be doing the training, which will amount to about 16 hours. Any event Gary is involved in is always a fun time….

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A Plan to Reforest Our City This article was taken from the “MN Shade Tree Advocate Newsletter” and written by Derik Olson, MN GreenCorps Member and Urban Forestry Specialist for the City of Rochester. In Rochester, we have over 30,000 vacant tree planting spaces.  Last year we planted 500 trees, and those were just to replace the 1000 that were removed because of poor condition, damage or disease.  I think most cities would like to do more, but with one tree costing between…

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