I noticed a city truck parked outside and I went to see what was up.
They were taking samples of my ash tree, again.
I found out last year, when they advised me of the road, drainage and sidewalk work they just finished a couple of weeks ago and took my fabulous red maple tree down, that my ash tree was registered with the state forestry service and had a serial number.
Apparently there are only a few hundred left in Indiana that are not infested with ash borer bugs. All they know of are registered, serial numbered and tested every month.
They've taken down two infested ash trees from near neighbors' homes this summer. They take samples of healthy trees trying to figure why some survive in the midst of so many infested trees.
Mine is still clean. No one knows why, but taking all these samples from healthy trees, maybe they can come up with something to save the few remaining ash trees in North America.
I told them to do what ever they need to do that could help.
It is not just a few species, either. The entire ash tree genus, Fraxinus is in danger of extinction.