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Mount Royal to lose 4,000 trees in Montreal's emerald ash borer cull

Published: 22 January 2018

City of Montreal will plant 40,000 saplings to replace trees that must be cut down

Thousands of ash trees infested by the tiny but destructive emerald ash borer will be cut down in Mount Royal Park by March 2019.

There are more than 10,000 ash trees in the park, and two-thirds have been treated against the invasive bug.Ìý The restÌýare getting axed.

...Many of the trees could not be vaccinated against the ash borerÌýbecause, on top of beingÌýan expensiveÌýprocess,Ìýa tree has to be healthy enough to respond,Ìýthe director of the Morgan Arboretum,Ìý´³¾±³¾Ìý¹ó²â±ô±ð²õ,Ìýtold CBC Montreal's Daybreak.Ìý

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