This Very Destructive Beetle That Can Devastate Ash Trees May Be in Dallas County
One of the action plan's goals is to decrease the beetle’s effects on the overall forest canopy in Dallas by increasing the populations of other native trees and reducing the number of ash trees. Meanwhile, the city says it wants to preserve as many of the ash trees as it can. This is because they can benefit people, wildlife and the environment.
The beetle’s arrival within county or city limits seems inevitable. But as talks of an action plan for when that day comes started heating up last year, some worried the response may be too hasty. According to a 2015 report by the Texas Trees Foundation, 13.1 percent of all trees in the city are ash, an estimated population of nearly 2 million ash trees.. “The ash borer will not only kill off nearly all of our ash trees. It will likely wipe out many insect species as a host for eggs and larva.
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