CommuniTree program begins replacing ash trees

Photo Courtesy: City of Sioux Falls

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) — The CommuniTree program is up and running in Sioux Falls.  The city received a three million dollars USDA grant to plant five-thousand new trees in the public right-of-way.  The trees will replace those lost to the infestation of Emerald Ash Borers.  Crews will be using an assembly-line approach to prepare planting sites, deliver trees and plant them, with a final crew mulching and staking the trees and handling cleanup.