Illinois has 130,000,000 ash trees. If only 2,000,000 ash trees become infected on private property, the cost to the Illinois home owners to cut them down and dispose of the wood could exceed $2 billion. Over 20,000,000 ash trees have been infected or cut down in Michigan and Ohio since 2002. We have a problem and our government has told us there is nothing we can do. That is not good enough!