City removing trees infected by Emerald ash borer

The city will remove dozens of trees found to have been infected by the Emerald ash borer.

Dozens of trees, in the area near Glenwood Community Centre and Glenwood School, will be removed this week.

The city says it’s the first major infection found since the bug was detected in the city’s ash tree population in 2017. At that time, the city had expected it to decimate the trees, but it credits quick actions with tree removal and “proactive preventative injections” with slowing it down.

Only 22 trees were removed between 2017 and last year.