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

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South Dakota Searchlight

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 ash []