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Rochester Arborist Workshop 2/20/2020 - Staffed a booth at an event for people in the forestry/tree care industry with over 125 attendants MDA contracted with an advertising firm who is handling all of the EAB/DMove Firewood outreach. Plant Pest Insider articles about EAB are typically sent out monthly. Printed the EAB Look-alike handout. If you need copies of EAB handouts please request them by email arrest.the.pest@state.mn.us Upcoming MDA Outreach September 15 - Emerald Ash Borer: Current Status, Trends, and New Resources for Landowners and Managers through the Univeristy of Minnesota Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative & University of Minnesota Extension Webinar Series, sfec.cfans.umn.edu/2020-webinar-sep DNR Some DNR foresters are including information/fact sheet on EAB in the Woodland Stewardship Plans they write for private landowners. detected for checks on southwest and central Minnesota. DNR Grant Update many cities postponed grant activities scheduled in the spring due to partial government shut down. o Preparing for EAB: eligible activities include tree inventory, management plans with an EAB component, ash tree and stump removal, and tree replacement. These cities have begun grant work: Columbia Heights Duluth Kellogg Moorhead New Ulm o EAB Community Forest Response Tree Planting: eligible activities include tree planting and equipment and materials needed to plant trees. These cities have begun grant work: Hutchinson Mendota Heights Sauk Centre Winona Biologoical Control Results from yellow pan trapping in the summer of 2019 came back from Juli Gould at APHIS. Yellow pan trapping efforts resulted in the recovery of two adult Tetrastichus planipennisi from a new location in Farmers Park in Winona County near Lewiston. The native parasitoid, Atanycolus spp., was recovered from Battle Creek, Farmers Park, Fort Snelling and Mississippi River Park. Winter sampling activities were completed for the 2019-2020 winter. Bark samples were collected from eight locations including White Water WMA and Fort Snelling State Park for intensive sampling. Samples were taken from live ash trees showing symptoms of EAB infestation at each site by using a draw knife to remove the outer layer of bark from the stem of the tree. Samples were dried, sieved and inspected under a dissection scope for healthy EAB eggs and eggs suspected of parasitism by Oobius agrili.