Dakota Gardener: The waiting is over

I moved to North Dakota in September of 2002. During my last week in East Lansing, Michigan, I was having a drink with a colleague who’s a forest entomologist. She had been on a conference call all afternoon, where they were discussing a new insect that they had just identified in the Detroit area. They called it emerald ash borer (EAB).

My friend said, “It’s going to be a bad one.”

Here we are, 22 …