Thank you Anderwood for your information on very cold weather and the EAB. As a rule it doesn't get much lower than ten below zero in Schaumburg, Il. This year we got down to nineteen below one day. It's the wind chill that can make it feel like fifty below zero or more. Since I have the only green ash in the entire neighborhood, maybe the EAB have left the area. Our town elected to try and preserve only the most mature trees on public ground. I don't think they realized that it would cost them more money to cut the trees down rather than treat them. They were late in taking any preventive measures. A town thirty miles away was devastated by EAB three years before it reared it's ugly head in Schaumburg. Our town used to have a Treetown rating award. It was a lovely, lush place to live. It's still a great place to live but looks like a newly developed neighborhood instead of one that's thirty-five plus years old. Our parkway tree was replaced with a crimson maple. I don't know the botanical name. The town has learned not to count heavily on one kind of tree. They have planted a larger variety.
