Is your community interested in learning about preparing for the arrival of EAB? Does your community have questions about the management of EAB? Does your community manage or have ash trees within its boundaries?
 
If you answered YES to any of these questions, continue reading to find out more about workshops in June that can help your community prepare for EAB.
 
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the University of Minnesota are hosting workshops throughout the State in June 2010, to help Minnesota's communities (cities, counties, townships and tribes) prepare for the invasion of EAB.
 
The goal of the workshops is to provide community leaders (administrators, clerks, planners, foresters, or anyone else responsible for planning and preparing for EAB) with the information and resources they will need to prepare EAB Community Preparedness and Response Plans.  Participants will learn about the following: guidelines for managing EAB, tools to help calculate the costs of EAB in a community, guidelines and tools for tree inventories and tree replacement, quarantine information, wood utilization ideas and management, and outreach materials that are available for use.   
 
If you are a community representative interested in preparing your community for the invasion of this destructive pest, please visit:

http://www.mda.state.mn.us/grants/grants/fprappropriation/eabworkshops.aspx

for more information on dates, locations and to pre-register.  The workshops are free of charge, but space is limited, so please register early.  Pre-registration will be accepted until May 27th or until workshop capacity has been reached, whichever comes first. 
 
*The MN EAB Community Preparedness Workshops will take place from 1 PM to 4 PM. In a complimentary but separate morning workshop, the Train-the-Trainer Workshops will focus on preparing participants to provide EAB presentations to the public. 
 
Support provided from the Outdoor Heritage Fund, a part of the Clean Water, Land and Legacy
Amendment, as appropriated in Minnesota Laws 2009, Chapter 172.
 
For more information and to register online, please visit:

http://www.mda.state.mn.us/en/grants/grants/fprappropriation/eabworkshops.aspx

Or, contact the Arrest the Pest Hotline at: