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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">May 29, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Contact</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">: John Bott, (207) 287-3156,
<a href="mailto:john.c.bott@maine.gov">john.c.bott@maine.gov</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">Emerald Ash Borer Discovered in Maine</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
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<i><span style="font-size:13.5pt">State officials have been prepared for the destructive insect’s arrival</span></i><o:p></o:p></h2>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">AUGUSTA – Officials at the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) report that emerald ash borer (EAB) has been found in Maine. Despite an aggressive search for at least a decade, the destructive forest
insect from Asia had not been detected in Maine previously. It has killed hundreds of millions of ash trees in thirty-four states throughout the country.
<b>The estimated commercial (unprocessed) value of Maine ash trees is approximately $320 million. </b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials with the Animal and Plant Health and Inspection Service (APHIS) have confirmed the identification of a pre-pupa found in Madawaska, Maine. The discovery was made by a joint
DACF – U.S. Forest Service (USFS) team on May 22, 2018. The team had responded following the discovery of EAB in Edmundston, New Brunswick, just across the river from Madawaska.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Discovery Anticipated</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">The Maine DACF has long anticipated the arrival of EAB and the inevitable destruction that follows. Public outreach has been conducted for fifteen (15) years. Experts have long believed that the insect has been present Maine but
undetected despite an aggressive effort to find it. Its discovery in Quebec, Vermont and New Hampshire further added to the growing concern. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Steps Taken To Locate EAB (EAB Surveillance in Maine)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Firewood awareness (2003–present)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Exotic Woodboring/Bark Beetle Survey (2004–2007, 2015)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Girdled Trap Tree Surveys (2007–present)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Purple Trap Surveys (2008–present)—4,668 traps</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Hundreds of participating volunteers, looking for visual signs of EAB, including woodpecker feeding</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Cerceris Biosurveillance (2008–present)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Forest Pest Outreach Trainings (2009–present)—Outreach, events, presentations</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Nursery Visual Surveys (2015–present)—More than 30 nurseries</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Green Funnel Trap (2016–present)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Conservation District outreach and trainings (2016–present)</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Current Maine Response Status</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">State and federal officials are meeting to implement a statewide emergency-response plan. To determine the extent of the infestation, a multi-agency survey effort has been launched including personnel from the Maine DACF, APHIS
and USFS.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">As recently as April 26, officials conducted a multi-agency tabletop meeting to create an emergency plan for responding to EAB’s eventual discovery and implement a planned response. That is now underway.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">Additional information will be released as more is learned from teams in the field and as data is processed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Emerald Ash Borer (EAB)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">Emerald ash borer was first discovered in the Detroit, Michigan area in 2002, though it is believed to have arrived in the 1990s. The beetle is about one half an inch and metallic green. Its larva tunnels through the wood just
under the bark of ash trees and can kill even healthy trees in three-to-five years. Hundreds of millions of trees across the country have been killed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">Ash trees comprise 4 percent of Maine’s hardwood forest and are also an important street tree. Emerald ash borer threatens all species of ash trees (except mountain ash) and could have significant ecological and economic impacts.
There are no practical means to control EAB in forested areas, though pesticide treatments can protect individual trees.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">Slowing the spread of EAB is crucial. An emerald ash borer generally moves only about one half-mile on its own in a year, but can move hundreds of miles in a single day within a piece of infested firewood.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Caution Regarding Firewood</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">Emerald ash borer is not the only threat to our forests that can move in the seemingly benign firewood brought to camp. Numerous other insects and diseases can also hitchhike in firewood. Spread the word: use local firewood. If
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">More information about emerald ash borer is available at:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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