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<br /> <br /> <br />Emerald Ash Borer Management Plan <br />City of St. Anthony Village, MN <br />WSB Project No. 020736-000 Page 6 <br />Map 3: St. Anthony Village Emerald Ash Borer <br />Status-MN Department of Agriculture June 2023 <br /> <br />Infested ash or infested neighborhoods represented by green dots, <br />St. Anthony in orange circle area <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />5.0 Tree Inventory and Ash Population <br />When WSB began the project, St. Anthony public works staff had already hired a <br />local non-profit organization to start a complete boulevard and City property (public) <br />tree inventory with a grant award from Hennepin County. The results revealed that <br />ash trees account for about 7 percent of the total tree species composition on <br />City property. WSB’s first step was to analyze the in-progress ash tree inventory <br />data to determine the total number of ash and quickly assess if any of the condition <br />ratings were high enough to merit protection with a systemic insecticide. The <br />analysis revealed that about 20 percent of the village’s inventoried ash met the size <br />and condition ratings to be preserved. <br />Each ash tree was assigned a condition rating of “dead, poor, fair, good or excellent” <br />by the City’s inventory contractor. The ratings consider tree health such as evidence <br />of EAB, but also physical condition such as branch structure, presence of decay, <br />wounds, presence of stem-girdling roots and more. <br />