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Ed Czerwinski was stopped at a North York traffic light last Halloween when he spotted a stand of dying ash trees that made his stomach drop. The 47-year-old forest health technician pulled over to investigate, and ripped back the bark on one of the trees. As he feared, the trunk was riddled with emerald ash borer, a pernicious alien beetle that has killed more than one million trees in Southwestern Ontario, but which officials then believed had spread only as far as London.
"Your gut says, oh my goodness this is not good," Mr. Czerwinski recalled in an interview. "You realize the implications of it. It`s huge."
In terms of the potential loss of trees and money, the emerald ash borer`s arrival in Canada`s largest city is indeed huge news.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=344757
"Your gut says, oh my goodness this is not good," Mr. Czerwinski recalled in an interview. "You realize the implications of it. It`s huge."
In terms of the potential loss of trees and money, the emerald ash borer`s arrival in Canada`s largest city is indeed huge news.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=344757