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01/18/07
CHELTENHAM - Three years ago, Helen Kittredge, noticed the leaves on the 21-year-old ash tree in her front yard were dying. At first, she thought the clusters of pansies and petunias she had planted around the base of the ash were responsible for the tree slowly withering. Find Us On Facebook
But in September a letter came from the Maryland Department of Agriculture that put her guilty conscience to rest. It warned of a new infestation of the emerald ash borer - an invasive beetle that killed about 25 million ash trees in the Midwest - in Prince George's County. She notified the department, and the next month, loggers and reporters were swarming around...
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