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Volunteer program credited with preserving most ash trees after emerald ash borer threat
Summary
Trees R Us volunteers and city staff described a multi‑year ash tree treatment and planting program that preserved roughly 305 city ash trees and planted more than 500 trees since staff changes and volunteer efforts began.
A volunteer‑led tree program updated the council Monday on a multi‑year effort to protect city ash trees from emerald ash borer and to expand tree plantings across Bettendorf.
Bob Sartore, a Trees R Us committee member, told the council the volunteer program — which the group launched about seven years ago — has “succeeded” in keeping the city largely “out of the woods” with regard to emerald ash borer. He reported that, of 338 treated trees in one area near Veterans Park, about 305 remained; the program also planted dozens of…
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