New york emerald ash borer quarantine to be expanded

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[TD] Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Contact: Joe Morrissey
518-457-0752
Joe.Morrissey@agriculture.ny.gov[HR][/HR][/TD]
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[TD=”class: head3, align: center”]NEW YORK EMERALD ASH BORER QUARANTINE TO BE EXPANDED[/TD]
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[TD=”class: head4, align: center”]22 Counties Added To State Quarantine[/TD]
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[TD]New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens and New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (DAM) Commissioner Darrel J. Aubertine today announced that the state will propose a revision to its Emerald ash borer (EAB) quarantine order to include all of the State south of the New York State Thruway, and east to the state border, except for Rockland, Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk counties and New York City.
EAB is an invasive, exotic insect that quickly kills all ash trees once it becomes established in an area or community. It was first discovered in the U.S. in 2002 in Detroit, Michigan, and has since been found in 18 states.
This invasive tree and forest pest has killed tens of millions of ash trees in areas where populations have become established. Especially hard hit have been communities which have lost thousands of mature street and park ash trees, often originally planted to replace stately elms killed 80 years ago by another invasive pest, Dutch elm disease. Costs to communities for removal and disposal of dead, dying and hazardous municipal trees, and their replacement is a challenge……..Click link to read more,

http://www.agriculture.ny.gov/AD/release.asp?ReleaseID=2564
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