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OUTREACH MDA MDA and UMN Extension presented EAB information to homeowners at Springbrook Nature Center April 13. About 25 people attended and had a lot of questions about insecticide options. MDA presented EAB information at Boston Scientific in Maple Grove April 20 and visually surveyed the ash on the property. Employees also asked questions during the lunch hour while MDA was staffing a table. MDA staffed a table at the Lakeville Clean Up Day April 22. A couple hundred families came out to learn about a variety of topics including invasive species and EAB over lunch. MDA presented EAB and firewood activities to 5 th and 6 th graders at Rice Lake State Park April 24 and in Isanti County May 19. A couple hundred students learned the importance of not moving firewood to prevent the spread of invasive species. MDA presented EAB information for 20 homeowners at Nerstrand Big Woods State Park April 29. MDA and UMN held EAB Regional Meetings to present current research, new infestation updates and share management experiences with more than 120 municipalities and ash managers. Three meetings were held: Blaine May 17, Rochester May 18, and Duluth May 23. MDA completed a How To Video on woodpecker damage visual survey techniques. The video will be available on the MDA website shortly. DNR th the Urban and Community Forestry Team provided an EAB Tour for the DNR’s Division On May 26 Management Team. The tour took the Division Management Team throughout the City of St. Paul to witness up close the coming losses and the potential for management through multiple methods. MNDNR Forestry Division now has a Twitter account. Please start following us @mnforestry. We provide Forest Health updates. Reach out to Jennifer Teegarden at jennifer.teegarrden@state.mn.us if you want @mnforestry to retweet your content. Feel free to retweet our content. Let’s work together! BIOLOGICAL CONTROL The 2017 field season for releases is now in full swing. 6,488 parasitoids have been released so far this season at 8 sites. Releases are alternating each week between two sites in the southeast, five in the metro area and one in Duluth. Yellow pan traps have been set once again in an effort to determine establishment of the biological control agents at two older release sites. 30 traps have been set at each of the two sites which are located at Robert’s Bird Sanctuary in Minneapolis and McNally Landing in Winona, MN. The traps will be checked weekly into September. RESEARCH The University’s Herd Immunity Insecticide study will be starting this month. The following cities have shown interest in participating in the study: Eagan, Coon Rapids, Hastings, Mendota Heights, Eden Prairie, Roseville, Andover, Rochester, Wabasha, Lake City, Red Wing, Duluth, Maple Grove, St. Paul, Shoreview, Blaine, and Maplewood. If your city was not listed and is interested in participating please contact Jennifer Burington at 651-201-6097 jennifer.burington@state.mn.us