7/15/2013 7:07 AM
I know this will probably rub many the wrong way but the emerald ash borer has its benefits. As our course gets walloped by the shiny green menace I realize that any ash that is not protected is definitely, no doubt about it, gone. As the tree canopy gets thinned for the first time in many, many decades I realize how beneficial the insect is. Selectively removing hundreds of trees in a very over-treed course is truly a gift. If I were to propose such a removal on this public domain, I would be out of town on a rail. I am by nature truly a tree hugger. To see the overcrowded tree situation and weak turf in heavy shade - I can actually say thank you for coming EAB. We are trunk applying Safari to 40-50 trees and the other 400 hundred ash are going byebye very rapidly. That still leaves us with 2000 trees.