The early frost got our ash tree this spring and now there are a lot of suckers coming up at the base.

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It sounds as if you have emerald ash bore, which is an insect that kills the tree.  The suckers will come up, but eventually will die.  If the tree is dead, or partly dead, you have already lost it.

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