Grundy Center Park Board takes preventative steps to preserve ash trees.

    GRUNDY CENTER — The Grundy Center Park Board has undertaken a preventative treatment plan in its three city parks to ward off the destructive ash borer. 
    The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) is a tree insect that feeds under the bark of ash trees and damages the ability of the tree to transport water and nutrients. It may kill a tree in as little as two to four years according to information found on the Iowa Tree Pests.com website.
    The emerald ash borer, though found in 25 states since 2010 and most recently spotted in 28 Iowa counties, has not been confirmed in Grundy County, though ash trees in nearby Black Hawk and Bremer Counties have been infected, which prompted the City Park Board to take preventative action.
 
For more of this story see the Oct. 1 Grundy Register.