HOUGHTON (AP) -- Michigan Technological and Michigan State universities are sharing in a $2.2 million federal stimulus grant to fight the spread of the emerald ash borer and save trees in the Upper Peninsula.
Houghton-based Michigan Tech is getting $650,000 for its part of the project, headed by forest insect ecologist Andrew Storer.
Other participants are the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Michigan departments of Agriculture, and Natural Resources and Environment,
Ash borers have killed tens of millions of ash trees. They infest at least 12 states and two Canadian provinces.
Michigan announced this week an infestation on the Lake Superior State University campus in Sault Ste. Marie in the Upper Peninsula.
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