On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:08:45 -0000 (UTC), Mike Duffy wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:03:11 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> It would have been over $10,000 [...] on my property.
>
> Easy. As you said,
>
> DO Cost_Item IN [ Height Diameter Infected Rotten Obstructed ]
> Cost += Several(Cost_Item) * $K
> ENDDO
>
> I paid $2K for one healthy white ash. The city paid me several hundred.
> In Quebec, the emerald ash-borer beetle, (Or as Trump calls it, "The
> Chinese Beetle"), is spreading way faster than anticipated.
>
In 2017, my b-i-l and I went on a cycling holiday along the Canal du Midi
in southern France. We saw the devastation wreaked by a fungus on the Plane
trees that line the banks that is thought to have been introduced from
wooden pallets originating in the USA. They cut down the infected trees and
burn them nearby.
Photo 1 shows what it should look like:
https://postimg.cc/K1n43C46
This is a typical scene where a recent infestation has been dealt with:
https://postimg.cc/y3Z74SZM
This is an extreme and, unfortunately, not a rare case:
https://postimg.cc/Fd2QZsBD