Urban Forester

West Des Moines is hiring a full-time urban forester, who will be charged with overseeing an emerald ash borer removal plan... the register says the city set aside 370 thousand dollars for the plan for fiscal year 2015... in all the plan is set to go six years and cost 1 point 7 million dollars... 12 hundred ash trees will be removed from city property... eight counties in Iowa have confirmed infestations of emerald ash borer.