TURNER PUBLISHING • June x, 2020
Auburn has been approved for a 2020 Project Canopy Assistance grant that will allow it to educate homeowners with ash trees about the Emerald Ash Borer and to begin to replace trees as needed. The $8,000 grant is through the USDA Forest Service Project Canopy program. The Emerald Ash Borer is an invasive insect native to Asia. It was introduced to the United States near Detroit during the 1990s and first identified there in 2002. It spread rapidly and has killed hundreds of millions of trees in North America, since it has no natural enemies here. It was first identified in Maine in May 2018 and has been found in Aroostook, York, and Cumberland counties.