From listening to Mike Schmidt the GM for Operations at the MPRB
burning is not the only solution. Apparently if the trees are run
through a chipper the resulting chips are not a viable home for the
fungus or the beetles. This is the method the MPRB is currently
employing. The $2.5 million a year that the Minneapolis Tree
Commission recommends for the MPRB forestry budget would hire more
people and buy the equipment (including the chippers) the MPRB would
need to keep the Urban Forest healthy.
Liz Wielinski
Columbia Park
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