ALBERT LEA, Minn. – The emerald ash borer has been detected 13 miles from the Iowa border in the Albert lea area. Ryan Hajek, assistant city public works director, urged residents to hire a certified arborist to check whether to treat infected trees or take them down. The city has 12,000 ash trees. The borer, first identified in Michigan in 2022, apparently embedded in wooden crates from Europe, has killed tens of millions of ash trees in Midwest and Northeast states.
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