Thread: EAB reaches Wisconsin

We have a quarantine here on movement of firewood but no one is out there enforcing it. All winter I saw wood being trucked without being checked into non quarantined areas. My guess is they cannot afford to staff the positions and the cops don't want another job.

I applaud Wisconsin for developing their 'Invasive List', however as 'Treevet' says "their is no one enforcing it". How many cops would know giant hogweed from a '74 buick, or care. They have their hands full w/other things. This is a typical gov't response, develop a plan(?) w/no way to implement it.

Here is the latest in Wisconsin.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/44068972.html

They hang the traps, id the infestation areas, quarantine the county if not already done so and then...............what is the next move??????

Years ago they clear cut a 5 mile radius. Gave up on that one.

Now it seems they are focused on protecting high value private trees with research and commercials. Maybe the research (government) is now funded by the commercials?? What do I know, I am just another onlooker (just like they are).

Well, this is where we are at now...
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/44626312.html

Sounds pretty grim Glenn, but with as they say getting a lemon and making lemonade out of it (or something like that).

We in Cinci. are now in bloom of the Black locust. This is generally held as the timing of the emergence of adult EAB.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/45089472.html

I didn't expect it in Minn. until 2010. Which actually should be saying to Wisconsin that they have a larger population than they think they do... You have to think that even w/"planning" that this insect will run to the edges of the Ash trees natural range.

Originally Posted by glennschumann

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/45089472.html

That is a well structured article and includes all the frustration and give pause to consider the exponential effect that we are now witnessing and expected but hoped to be wrong about.

Arriving earlier than expected, showing up in places unannounced, areas over planted in ash, lack of funding compounding the bleak chances of eradication, dilemma of mass wood accumulation in the horizon but what to do with it as it spreads the infestation to move it.....no enforcement...etc etc.

Even under the best of circumstances, as Urban Forester said, insignificant eradication attempts are like pi$$ing in the ocean.

I posted this in another forum/thread but it might get missed there and this is all about helping each other thru this so here is some new info...

We have just days ago had a substantial new find of EAB in the Cinci vicinity.

Here is the website that prob has already been posted to go with it..

www.emeraldashborer.info

I visited the sites today and here are a few picts I took. No adults found as is common from what I hear.

have a few more but these give the idea of an early infestation. Since it is flight time they are keeping these up as a sink for eggs and after will cut them down (City of Cinci.). Thanks to Cinci. urban forester Matt ####man for directions and info. There were mass groupings of dead mature ash along a creek bed on Clough Pike that would number in the hundreds just from casual observation at a distance.

So strange, even eerie not to see any adults around.

I would love to hear from arborists in past infestation areas as to the progression and history of their areas as to what to expect. It seems so odd that it was discovered here over a year ago and then it went dead quiet for about a year after all the hoopla and now it is all over the news I heard. I got a little inside early info.