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Experts Considering Effect of Bitter Cold on Insect Pests
ALB More Successful in Red Than Other Maples
Governor Honors Illinois EAB Wood Utilization Team
Four Publications Make Bestseller List
Urban and Community Forestry Coordinators for Mid-Atlantic
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Monitoring Workshop Will Train Volunteers
New Forestry Extension Materials
Recycling Christmas Trees a Tradition on National Forests
Snowblower Safety Demonstration
Sustainable Operations Tip
Power-IT-Down Initiative-Get on Board
New Employee Angela "Angie" Morgan


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January 27, 2014 
Experts Considering Effect of Bitter Cold on Insect Pests
The new year has brought below-normal temperatures to the Northeastern United States. (Source: http://www.weather.gov/forecastmaps)

CHICAGO--Though many people may not like the bitter cold, the up side is that it can be deadly for some invasive insects, such as the emerald ash borer.  Robert Venette, a research biologist with the U.S. Forest Service in Minnesota, was interviewed on this topic on NPR earlier this month. Hear or read interview.

ALB More Successful in Red Than Other Maples
Red maple (Acer rubrum). (Photo: Richard Webb, Self-employed horticulturist, Bugwood.org)

DURHAM, NH -- Federal researchers have taken a step forward in the battle against Asian longhorned beetle. A recent U.S. Forest Service study revealed the tree-killing ALB to be more than four times as likely to successfully develop into an adult when feeding on red maple versus other species of maple in Massachusetts forests.

 

The study, published in the scientific journal, Insects, could help prioritize ALB survey strategies in other states. Read more.
Governor Honors Illinois EAB Wood Utilization Team
Pictured--Warren D. Goetsch and Scott Schirmer, Illinois Department of Agriculture; Edith Makra, Metropolitan Mayors Caucus; and Tom Dilley, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry. (Photo: Jim Dexter, Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, University of Illinois)
ST. PAUL, Minn.--The Illinois Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) Wood Utilization Team was honored at a ceremony in Peoria, for their achievements in protecting the environment, helping sustain the future, and improve the economy. The team includes Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry (NA S&PF) staff and State partners.  The Governor's Sustainability Awards were presented by the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center--a unit of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois. The team's new approach emphasizes harvesting logs usually considered waste and processing them into lumber for locally used products. The team promotes this new sustainable model by linking segments along the supply chain--from managers of urban landscapes to sawyers to woodworkers to end users of wood products. Through financial assistance from NA S&PF's Wood Education Resource Center (WERC) and advocacy, education and training, demonstration projects, and with the technical support of its Deputy Director  Ed Cesa, the Team has built a network of 55 sawyers; trained 130 arborists; assessed the timber resources in the Chicago metropolitan region; promoted reclaimed baseball bats on national television; and transferred technology and know-how to help other States create similar regional urban wood efforts.

Four Publications Make Bestseller List

WASHINGTON--The most recent bestseller list of the U.S. Government Printing Office includes four publications of the Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry.  The newest is the 2013 children's book Why Would Anyone Cut a Tree Down? and the oldest is the Timber Management Field Book, in use since the late 1960's. Also listed are two pamphlets on tree care originally published in the mid 1990's and revised in 2012-How To Prune Trees and How to Recognize Hazardous Defects in Trees. How To Prune Trees is available in Swahili and Spanish, as well as English. View the complete list.

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Urban and Community Forestry Coordinators for Mid-Atlantic

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.-- Anne Buckelew, formerly with the Morgantown Field Office of the  Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry (NA S&PF), has joined the landowner and community assistance group in the Forest Service's National State and Private Forestry Office in Washington, DC, as a natural resource specialist.  Now that she is there, she is being detailed to cover for National Urban and Community Forestry (UCF) Program Manager Alice Ewen, while she is on a detail.

  

Julie Mawhorter and Donna Murphy will cover the UCF Program responsibilities for the Mid-Atlantic for NA S&PF.  Julie Mawhorter (410-267-5708), located in Annapolis, MD, will be the primary contact and leader for the States of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. Earlier Mawhorter worked as a natural resource planner with Sally Claggett on the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Forestry program.  Donna Murphy  (304-285-1547), located in Morgantown, WV, will cover the UCF program responsibilities for Ohio.  She will also handle grant administration for the Morgantown Field Office's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants and all Forest Health invasive plant grants, Cooperative Weed Management Area outreach across the Mid-Atlantic, and work with the Upper Delaware River "Common Waters" group.   Murphy formerly served as the coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic Center for Urban Forestry. 

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Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Monitoring Workshop Will Train Volunteers
WARREN, Pa.--The Nature Conservancy, Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and United States Forest Service (U.S. Forest Service) are organizing a workshop aimed at training volunteers to identify and report new hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) infestations in northwestern Pennsylvania and southwestern New York.  More information. 
New Forestry Extension Materials

Penn State Extension Forestry Newsletter and

University of Minnesota Extension Woods Calendar 
Recycling Christmas Trees a Tradition on National Forests

MILWAUKEE, Wis.--For many, purchasing or cutting a Christmas tree is a favorite seasonal tradition. But what do you do with your trees after the festivities end?

 

Tree recycling after the holidays has become part of community traditions on several Eastern Region national forests. Recycled trees can be used to establish fish habitats, create mulch for future plantings and build soil erosion barriers. Using the trees for these purposes also keeps them from filling up local landfills. Read more. 

Snowblower Safety Demonstration 

This pick from the variety of information available on the Internet uses a light touch in covering the serious subject of operating a snowblower.  Watch video.
Sustainable Operations Tip-

Insulating Your Home's Rim Joist

Common Air Leaks

Power-IT-Down Initiative--Get on Board

WASHINGTON--Power-IT-Down is a national Forest Service initiative that encourages employees to power down electronic devices and information technology (IT) peripherals.  You do not need to work for the Forest Service to follow along and save energy in your home and office.  Annual savings of $60 per computer is a conservative estimate associated with nightly shut down and powering down other IT peripherals.  In Forest Service offices across the country, the initiative has the potential to save $2.5 million a year, plus significantly reduce CO2 emissions. 

 

Phase 1 of Power-IT-Down recommends unplugging electronic devices and IT peripherals every weekend, unless there is a reason not to. To simplify the process, plug your peripherals into a power strip, and flip just one switch.  PLEASE NOTE: Inkjet printers should be powered down only using the device's power button, which moves the printer heads into a store position to prevent them from drying out and clogging.

 

Power IT Down is a collaborative effort of Forest Service Sustainable Operations and the Chief Information Office in response to legislation and Presidential Executive Orders. Begun in December, the effort is planned to increase frequency and number of offices participating through Phase 4 in Fiscal Year 2015. 

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New Employee Angela "Angie" Morgan 

Angie Morgan
Angie Morgan (Photo: Ralph Crawford)

Angela "Angie" Morgan 
has joined the Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry as an administrative assistant.  Read more. 

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