What does treatment for emerald ash borer cost? (Lebanon, Indiana)

What does treatment for emerald ash borer cost?

It has already moved through Indiana and killed the overwhelming majority of untreated ash. An untreated ash here is on a clock, not at risk. In Lebanon, lebanon is the one town of the three with a genuinely mature urban forest: the comprehensive plan identifies 13 neighborhoods clustered around the courthouse square and the east side, and the pre-war ones — Old Northside, Historic Downtown, Longley, Witt Oak Hill — carry canopy old enough to be over the rooflines and into the primary wires, which is exactly the removal and reduction work that dominates here. The city's UDO requires ornamental (short-maturing) trees rather than shade trees wherever overhead utilities are present, an acknowledgment that the existing overstory and the lines are already in conflict; Lebanon has no published tree inventory, so species dominance is not documented. Treatable while the canopy is still mostly intact.

Lebanon's canopy and what's at risk

Lebanon is the one town of the three with a genuinely mature urban forest: the comprehensive plan identifies 13 neighborhoods clustered around the courthouse square and the east side, and the pre-war ones — Old Northside, Historic Downtown, Longley, Witt Oak Hill — carry canopy old enough to be over the rooflines and into the primary wires, which is exactly the removal and reduction work that dominates here. The city's UDO requires ornamental (short-maturing) trees rather than shade trees wherever overhead utilities are present, an acknowledgment that the existing overstory and the lines are already in conflict; Lebanon has no published tree inventory, so species dominance is not documented.

What to look for

Thinning from the top down, D-shaped exit holes about an eighth of an inch across, sprouts low on the trunk, and pale flecking where woodpeckers have stripped bark to get at larvae.

Whether the tree can be saved

Treatable while the canopy is still mostly intact. Once roughly a third of it is gone, treatment stops being worth the money and the tree becomes a removal — and a dead ash goes brittle unusually fast, which makes it both more dangerous and more expensive the longer it stands.

Timing in Boone County

Trunk injection in spring or early summer, repeated every one to two years for the life of the tree. It is a permanent commitment, not a cure.

What does treatment for emerald ash borer cost?

Lebanon's canopy and what's at risk

What to look for

Whether the tree can be saved

Timing in Boone County

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