Deborah McCullough of Michigan State University’s Department of Entomology describes the national impact of the Emerald Ash Borer. The Emerald Ash Borer has become the most destructive forest pest to impact North America both in regard to forest health and economic impacts. Jonathan Lelito (USDA APHIS PPQ) also describes the emerging national biological control program [...]
Michigan sees another invasive pest enter the state. The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) is an arthropod pest that feeds on can be a serious pest of a variety of fruits, vegetables, field crops, and ornamental plants. Here are some links to currently available information regarding BMSB: Press release from the Michigan Department of Agriculture. [...]
Gabriel, Travis and Amos are hard at work training the Mackinac County SLAM crews in Moran, MI. Eighteen crew members in attendance and all are becoming ArcMoblie fans! Gabriel and Travis are doing their usual excellent job.
Here’s to you ‘Graduate Student Dudes from Da UP’. A couple of graduate students from Michigan Technological University came up with this little tribute to one of our favorite forest pests. They are not currently working on emerald ash borer, but they seem to have a future in outreach communications.
Let the setup of the GeTac units for the SLAM project begin! Travis Perkins begins the process of assembling the GeTac field kits for distribution to the three SLAM project sites. We first had to charge the 25 units and that took all the strip outlets we could borrow. Then it was onto the assembly [...]
Deb McCullough has hopeful news on the emerald ash borer front. She was recently interviewed by Kirk Heinze for the Greening of the Great Lakes talk radio show on News/Talk 760 WJR. She highlighted the Slowing Ash Mortality (SLAM) project and what impact it might have on the reduction of ash mortality. Applied Spatial Ecology [...]
ASETS has developed a new Flex based data viewer for the Michigan Invasive Species Information Network (MISIN). This new viewer was built using the ESRI Adobe Flex API and provides viewing of the state wide distribution of reported invasive terrestrial plants in Michigan. Users are able to select a single species from the “View Species” [...]
A new Emerald Ash Borer infestation was discovered near St. Paul, Minnesota recently. What follows is the official press release from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) today announced the discovery of an emerald ash borer infestation (EAB) in St. Paul just northeast of the intersection [...]
The Michigan Invasive Species Information Network (MISIN) reporting website has officially launched. The invasive species reporting capabilities of MISIN were launched to coincide with the kickoff of the Stewardship Network’s 2009 Garlic Mustard Pull. The Stewardship Network is a grassroots cooperative organization working to protect, restore, and manage Michigan’s natural lands and waters. It helps [...]
