The City of Wabasha Public Works Department is finishing up planting over 643 trees of 6 different varieties.
The City of Wabasha received a $33,343 grant from the DNR to plant trees in order to replace the 950 ash trees that had to be removed due to the Emerald Ash Borer Disease.
This disease is from an invasive beetle from Asia that attacks and kills trees and it has decimated almost all ash trees in Wabasha and across the Midwest.
Tony Johnson, Public Works Director says trees increase the city’s air pollution filtration, provide shade, and increase property value. Johnson says all trees have already been allocated for specific locations around town, if you get a tree on your boulevard, they ask the public to help them out by keeping the trees watered this summer.
The Wabasha Kellogg Area Community Foundation also supported the purchase of some of these trees with a financial contribution to the City of Wabasha.
If you would like to support more trees being planted in the City of Wabasha, you can donate to the City, with your gift being designated for “Wabasha Trees”.
(Photo by: City of Wabasha, Brandon Huth, and Ryan Johnson)