Will There Be A City Of Ashes Movie
Christel Malden
The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is a small, green boring insect that attacks and kills all trees in the Ash family (Fraxinus spp). This invasive insect has been spreading across the State of Wisconsin for the last ten years and is firmly entrenched in River Falls. About 20 percent or 1900 of our public trees in River Falls are Ash.
EAB is having a major impact on our urban forest and will continue to do so as long as there are Ash trees present. The city anticipates EAB to spread to its peak in three to seven years. With the assistance of our contractor CNUC, the city has evaluated the condition of all the boulevard and parks ash trees in River Falls. The plan can be found here What is city's plan to combat EAB?. The goals of the city are to retain canopy and to systematically remove and replace Ash. Tree health, public safety, budget and city staff workload are key drivers of decision making. Approximately half of the Ash trees in the city have been deemed treatable and will receive treatment over the next two years, starting in spring of 2023. A reevaluation will occur in 2025 to assess the effectiveness of treatments. The other half of the Ash trees will be marked and removed over the next 10 years.
There are a few options you can take to help fight the spread of EAB. If you have or think you have an Ash tree or an infected Ash tree on your boulevard and want to know your options for removal, please contact the Public Works Manager Erica Ellefson at 715-426-3406 or by email.
There may have been hope that The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones could still make a profit thanks to DVD sales, video-on-demand rentals, or the streaming services available at the time. Even after the disappointing box office, Screen Gems and Constantin Film were still considering bringing The Mortal Instruments: City Of Ashes to the screen.
The Mortal Instruments didn't just have a disappointing box office return; City Of Bones also received disappointing reviews from critics. Years later, it holds a 13% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes. The most common criticism of the movie was that it combined too many fantasy elements without actually utilizing them, but since the movie was meant to introduce audiences to a new urban fantasy setting, some were willing to overlook that and hope that later installments had more effective world-building.
The plan was to plod ahead with The Mortal Instruments: City Of Ashes. Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Lena Headey, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers were all set to reprise their roles and Sigourney Weaver was in talks to join the cast. After several delays in the production, however, it was eventually announced in October 2014 that Constantin Film had decided to cancel The Mortal Instruments movie sequel.
Because there is so much source material for The Mortal Instruments franchise, it also seems unlikely that there would be additional movies. Instead, it seems more likely that a television or streaming series would be the way to go. After all, Disney+ has a reboot of the Percy Jackson stories on screen, a series instead of standalone movies featuring the characters. Six to 10 episodes on a streaming platform inevitably have a higher budget than longer seasons of shows on a television network, which could very much help the production value of The Mortal Instruments series.
Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) was detected in north Fort Collins on May 11, 2020, just outside of city limits. EAB has not been identified outside of where it was first located, however, it has likely spread south/southeast about one mile.
There are approximately 70,000 ash trees in Fort Collins, which equals 33% of the canopy cover. The City maintains about 10% of the 70,000 ash trees, the remaining are privately-owned, making it important for community-members to make their own ash management plan.
The Forestry Division has strategically selected 2,100 City-owned ash trees to be treated in a three-year rotation. To learn more about the City selection process, view appendix A in the Emerald Ash Borer Response Plan.
Anyone interested in self-funding treatment of trees in the public-right-of-way that are not being treated by the City Forestry Division, should contact fore...@fcgov.com to receive a permit, prior to starting independent treatments. Permits will be issued only after a tree evaluation to assess if it is worth treating. To see which City-owned trees are being treated, click on the tree in TreeKeeper.
EAB signs and symptoms include thinning canopy, loss of leaves, new sprouts on lower trunk or lower branches, vertical splits in bark, D-shaped exit holes about 1/8-inch wide, S-shaped tunnels produced by larvae under the bark, and increased woodpecker activity.
If you decide to treat your ash tree(s) with an insecticide, keep up with the treatments as EAB has never been eradicated out of a community. Water, water, water! This will keep your tree healthy and help with better pesticide uptake once you start treating.
If you decide to not treat your ash tree(s), it is safer to remove the tree before it is killed by EAB. Make sure that you are replacing them with a suitable species for this area. If you are planting multiple trees, make sure that you diversify so that when the next pest moves in, you are then prepared.
Adult beetles are strong flyers, but they typically fly less than half a mile once they emerge from their host tree. This means that the pest most likely arrived in our area via human transport of infested ash wood, such as firewood or other raw ash material.
An adult EAB is an emerald green metallic beetle that is about -inch long and is bullet-shaped. The area under the wing covers of an adult beetle is coppery red. The larva is off-white and flat with bell-shaped segments and can grow up to be about 1-inch long.
The following App is a handy tool to help you identify what type of trees you may have on your property: search for EAB/Ash Tree ID. Not an App/smartphone user? Send pictures to fore...@fcgov.com or contact a Licensed Certified Arborist.
Forestry also just finished a re-inventory of our entire ash tree population. This re-inventory updated tree diameters, conditions and helped establish prioritization of initial EAB treatment plans going forward.
Even though EAB has been found on the edge of our community, there is time to be strategic and proactive in implementing the management plans for public and private trees. The presence of this pest does not automatically put us into a purely reactive mode. It is very important for our whole community to join us in this approach that works to balance the social, environmental, and economic impacts of EAB in our community.
We suggest hiring a licensed, certified Arborist for all pruning, removal, and pesticide treatment work. Click here for a current list of certified Arborists in your area. You can also contact us for more information at 970.221.6660 or fore...@fcgov.com.
At this time, the Forestry Division is advising Fort Collins residents to act now and start implementing their own EAB management plans. Residents should first determine if their property has any ash trees, and if so, evaluate the condition of each tree, with continued monitoring throughout the year. Residents should also decide whether to have infected ash trees treated, or removed and replaced. City Forestry staff urge residents to weigh the benefits and costs associated with ash removal and replacement, versus ongoing insecticide treatments.
If the ash tree is in poor health or is smaller than 11-inches in diameter, Forestry recommends either planting another tree near-by (shadow planting) or removing and replacing the ash with a suitable species for the Front Range.
You can have the tree removed, but we strongly suggest that you replant it with a new tree species that is well adapted to our area. Be aware that EAB is an aggressive pest and has never been eradicated from any community, so if you chose not to treat, your tree will eventually be killed.
The City of Roseville is within the Emerald Ash Borer infestation zone. This means that all ash trees within the city are considered to be infested with Emerald Ash Borer, or will become infested with Emerald Ash Borer (EAB). Unfortunately, EAB eventually kills all infested, untreated trees.
The city is currently implementing a multi-pronged, proactive approach to managing public ash trees including REMOVAL of diseased trees that have shown significant signs of decay, PLANTING trees of different species to replace ash and TREATING select ash trees.
Residents in areas where trees will be slated for removal will be notified via USPS, at least two weeks ahead of any removal activities. Trees will then be marked with a green ring approximately one week ahead of removal. At that time, nearby residents will also receive a door hanger with information related to the upcoming removals. Because our contractor is prioritizing most urgent removals first, it is possible that an ash tree in front of your residence may not be removed until a later date.
Click here to see the tentative removal schedule
Following removal, tree stumps will be ground, and the area restored. During the winter months, this process may be delayed due to snow cover and/or frozen ground. It is the intent of this program to complete the removal, site restoration and replanting (if appropriate) within a 6-month timeframe.
Of the 1,152 ash trees across our city, approximately 238 trees are planned for preservation using a trunk injected, non-neonicotinoid insecticide. Most of these trees are located within our parks and public spaces and are providing significant benefit to our community. The city has agreed to continue to treat these trees in order to preserve those important environmental benefits mature trees provide.