National Park Service to remove ash trees from Arch grounds

Friday, March 9, 2012

ST. LOUIS -- The large ash trees that line the walkways and make up nearly half of the trees on the grounds of the Gateway Arch will be cut down, in part because of the inevitable arrival of a beetle that has already killed millions of trees in several states.

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