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Ash borer found in Homewood trees
January 28, 2008 by Carla A. Mullady, Southtown Star

The emerald ash borer has been found in three trees in the Calumet Country Club area in Homewood....

Invasive pest threat prompts state ag department to ask consumers to check wooden planters
January 25, 2008 Winona Daily News

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is asking consumers for help in tracking down wooden planter boxes from Indiana that might be hiding a tree pest called emerald ash borer.
Officials made the request after learning that the boxes made from potentially infested ash wood were improperly shipped to Minnesota in violation of a federal quarantine.
The planter boxes in question are labeled “Nature’s Own Planters” by Lawson Products. They are about 24 inches by eight inches in size, and made from ash tree slabs with bark attached...

Ash borer fells a Wilmette tree -- and 90 more are set to fall
Winter proves a good time to inspect leafless limbs, take action against insect
January 17, 2008 By Tara Malone- Tribune reporter

Less than two years and a half-mile from where the metallic-green pest first appeared in Wilmette, arborists this month took down another tree infected by the ravenous emerald ash borer beetle.

A 50-foot tree that overlooked Lake Avenue for more than three decades was sliced apart and fed into a wood chipper stationed along the residential street. It was the first of at least 90 Wilmette ash trees that are being removed from public land in the coming weeks -- a big loss that's an urgent reminder of the borers' widespread reach across the Chicago area and the Midwest...