Recent News Articles

Land owner, state disagree on plan to cut ash trees
Detroit Free Press - Apr 1, 2005
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- A St. Clair County man continued his quest Friday to prevent the state from cutting down trees on his property ...

IN A MINUTE: Appeal set for man fighting tree removal
Detroit Free Press - Mar 31, 2005
A hearing is scheduled Friday before a state agriculture officer in Lansing for Harsens Island landowner John Horvath, who is fighting the state's plan to ...

Harsen's resident bars tree-cutters
New Baltimore Voice Newspapers, MI - Mar 22, 2005
John Horvath of Harsen's Island wasn't about to let contractors working for the Michigan Department of Agriculture on to his property to remove 86 ash trees on ...

Ontario officials: Man's blockade may be raising beetle infestation risk
WOOD-TV, MI - Mar 18, 2005
... border. Now, Canadian officials are saying John Horvath may be increasing the risk of emerald ash borer infestation in their country. ...

Harsens Island man given a choice on trees
Detroit Free Press - Mar 18, 2005
BY MARTY HAIR. To dodge a misdemeanor and the bill for having his ash trees cut down, John Horvath has to take action. The state ...

Ash tree fight to go to court
Detroit Free Press - Mar 17, 2005
HARSENS ISLAND -- The state is going to court to force John Horvath to allow it to remove 86 ash trees from his property. "We are ...

Swan song of the ash grove? Today may be trees' last day
Detroit Free Press - Mar 16, 2005
BY MARTY HAIR. HARSENS ISLAND -- Today is the deadline for John Horvath to tell the state if he will compromise in his dispute over who will cut his ash trees. ...

Deadline passes; Harsens Island man ignores calls from state over infestation
DetNews.com, MI - Mar 16, 2005
... State officials gave John Horvath, 67, a 5 pm Wednesday deadline to allow state workers onto his 40-acre farm on Harsens Island in St. Clair County. ...

Man won't let state officials onto property
Detroit Free Press - Mar 15, 2005
HARSENS ISLAND -- The morning sun had barely risen over this icy island's wetland when John Horvath's bulldozer roared out Monday and parked at the end of his ...

State spares farmer's ash trees -- for now
Port Huron Times Herald, MI - Mar 15, 2005
... HARSENS ISLAND -- John Horvath made good Monday on his promise to keep state officials from cutting down ash trees on his 40-acre farm. ...

Property owner, neighbors use bulldozer to repel effort to cut some of the plants
DetNews.com, MI - Mar 14, 2005
... John Horvath, 67, parked the bulldozer across the drive to his 40-acre property to defend what the state says are diseased trees and said he was surprised by ...

State postpones plan to cut down land owner's ash trees
Detroit Free Press - Mar 14, 2005
Contractors were set to remove 86 trees from John Horvath's land in an effort to curb the spread of the emerald ash borer, a destructive pest that has wiped ...

Owner won't let state cut his ash trees
Detroit Free Press - Mar 11, 2005
HARSENS ISLAND -- Unless tempers cool this weekend, John Horvath and the state agriculture department are heading for a showdown Monday over Horvath's ash trees ...

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