Milbank goes out on a limb to save ash trees from invasive beetle

Milbank goes out on a limb to save ash trees from invasive beetle

Ash trees make up more than 50% of Milbank's public tree canopy, including parks and its cemetery. (Photo courtesy of city of Milbank)It would cost up to $4 million to cut down Milbank’s ash trees, after state and city officials detected a beetle last summer that threatens to decimate the northeastern South Dakota city’s tree canopy. It’ll cost roughly 60% of that price, or $2.4 million over 12 years, to reach herd immunity against the emerald a…