The Greenway Field Homes Association demonstrated ash tree injection treatments at Strawn Park and surrounding neighborhoods to kill off Emerald Ash Borer. We've watched on the map spread through the city of boulder and now it's starting to hop from community to community in Boulder County, and it's made its way into Broomfield and now it's in Westminster,” said Sara Davis, the Urban Forestry Manager for the City of Denver.
Homeowners will want to decide if they want to save a valued ash tree by beginning treatments next spring, or if they instead want to plant another tree species now as an eventual replacement, said Lonnie Messbarger, an MDC resource forester based in St. Joseph.



More information on dealing with the emerald ash borer menace can be found on the Conservation Department's website, , searching for emerald ash borer treatments and reading the Emerald Ash Borer Management Guide for Missouri Homeowners published in April 2015.
According to the University of Missouri Extension, the quarantine requires specific actions to reduce the risk of borers surviving before any part emerald ash borer treatment in kansas city of an ash tree, including logs and green lumber (as well as any firewood from all hardwood species) can be transported out of the quarantine area.

If you are a lover of ash trees, have them on your property, noticed signs of distress in your ash population, or simply want more information on this topic, keep reading to learn how to identify and eradicate this invasive species in your neck of the woods.
Research indicates that regular treatments may be necessary for 6-10 years while Emerald Ash Borer outbreak populations persist. The hope is to keep the ash borer away from healthy trees that can yet be saved. That means that you can not take any ash wood out of your county.

If you have ash trees on your property, you need to protect them. Without living ash trees this moth will become extinct because that is the only plant its caterpillars are designed to eat. EAB attacks and kills both stressed and healthy ash trees and is so aggressive that trees typically die within two to four years after becoming infested.