Quarantine Enforcement Action
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has begun taking enforcement actions on violators of the EAB Quarantine and firewood label laws.
A company located in Sherburne County that composts and mulches yard waste transported from Hennepin County was ordered to mulch their material after unprocessed ash was identified in their piles -- a violation of the EAB Quarantine. The emergency Corrective Action Order was to be completed within 7 days at the company's expense. The work was completed and all unprocessed ash that was not mulched was transported back into the EAB Quarantine where it was processed.
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Firewood Enforcement Action
The MDA issued a Stop Sale Order to a retail
store in Minnesota, after they were found to be selling firewood that
did not
list the county and state of harvest on the bundle label. Minnesota
State
Statute 239.093(c) requires firewood that is sold or distributed across
state
boundaries or more than 100 miles from its origin must include
information
regarding the harvest locations of the wood by county and state on each
label
or wrapper. The retail store has subsequently contacted the firewood
producer and corrected the problem with new labels. The firewood was
from
Catron County, New Mexico.
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Survey Update
 EAB survey crews have begun checking traps for EAB. As of July 8, 2010, a total of 1,172 out of the state's 3,000+ traps have been checked for EAB.
One of these traps has turned up positive for EAB! The trap was located near the St. Paul U of M campus -- already part of the Known Infested Area for EAB.
Surveyors hope to check all the traps at least once throughout the summer with the hopes of checking them up to 3x before being taken down for the season.
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Curtis Utley, CSUE, bugwood.org
 | Thousand Cankers Disease
For more information please visit My Minnesota Woods, or to request a hard copy of the survey form, please contact:
Kathryn Kromoy, MDA
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