Ash Tree Treatment in Milbank, SD
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EAB confirmation in Milbank was significant enough that South Dakota’s DANR added Grant County to the state Plant Pest Quarantine as a direct result, joining Brookings, Minnehaha, Lincoln, Turner, and Union counties. That quarantine restricts moving ash firewood and material out of Grant County — buy firewood where you’ll burn it, and don’t bring outside ash wood in.
For individual Milbank ash trees, the decision is the same as anywhere else in a confirmed county: get an in-person assessment before deciding whether treatment or removal makes more sense for that specific tree.
Why did EAB in Milbank affect the whole county's rules?
DANR's quarantine system works at the county level. Confirmation of EAB within a city triggers evaluation and, as happened with Milbank, expansion of the quarantine to the surrounding county — in this case, Grant County.