|
Compliance Agreement Renewals
Do you have an expiring Compliance Agreement with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and/or the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)?
There are currently sixty-one (61) active Compliance Agreements with the MDA and/or USDA. Twenty-seven (27) additional ones have already expired. The time has come to begin renewing your Compliance Agreements! A handful of companies have already done so with a handful more in the works. Compliance Agreements expire after one year.
Ash material and hardwood firewood cannot be transported out of an EAB Quarantine without an active and valid Compliance Agreement. The MDA would like to thank everyone for their efforts in helping slow the spread of this devastating insect. Compliance Agreements are just one of the many regulatory tools aimed at keeping human-assisted EAB movement to a minimum.
To obtain a Compliance Agreement, or to renew your expiring one, please contact:
|
|
The 2010 Survey Season is Complete
The Minnesota Department Agriculture has finished another year of survey for EAB.
MDA confirmed the presence of EAB in Houston County along the Mississippi River in late April of 2010. This came as no surprise with the confirmation of EAB in Victory, WI the year before.
A total of 2,840 traps were placed statewide with placement broken up into three categories: Risk-based, Grid-based and Quarantine trapping (Hennepin & Ramsey County).
Risk-based traps were placed at campgrounds,
 | | Josh Plunkett setting a trap in Houston County 4/28/10 |
compost/environmental waste sites and at various other locations considered high risk.
Grid-based traps were placed to monitor the front line of EAB movement in 7 counties along the St. Croix and Mississippi rivers. Traps were placed based on map grids the size of 1.5 mi x 1.5 mi covering 7 counties (Anoka, Washington, Dakota, Goodhue, Wabasha, Winona and Houston).
Quarantine trapping in Hennepin and Ramsey County focused on detecting EAB's movement in the known infested areas of South Saint Anthony in St. Paul and Tower Hill Park in Minneapolis. Using EAB population densities and ash tree inventories provided by Minneapolis and St. Paul, traps were hung in an attempt to measure how far these infestations have grown so that mitigation strategies can be employed.
Traps were also placed in suburbs and other outlying communities of Hennepin and Ramsey County.
Of the beetles found on traps throughout the survey season, all were from known infested areas.
As always, you can find up-to-date survey data by visiting MDA's Interactive Minnesota Survey Map. |
