Forest Health Protection: Invasive Species Management Program

1. Figure 1. Forest Health Protection regional staff locations and territories. Forest Health - Role • Provide technical expertise in the prevention, detection, assessment, management and monitoring of invasive plants, insects and diseases that damage trees and forests, and the benefits they provide. Central Office Staff Program Coordinator Forest Pathologist Invasive insect Specialist Invasive Plant Specialist

2. Strategic Direction Forest Health Program

3. Forest Health - Role Provide technical expertise in the prevention, detection, assessment, management and monitoring of invasive plants, insects and diseases that damage trees and forests, and the benefits they provide.

4. Forest Health – Change • Continue shift toward increased emphasis on invasive species work. Continuing focus on emerging priority needs with a reduction in gypsy moth suppression efforts.

5. Forest Health – Maintain • Detection, delimitation, monitoring, impact assessments, risk model and map development. • Technical assistance to partners and land managers

6. Forest Health – Maintain • Work in partner with other DNR divisions, agencies and local municipalities to efficiently control damaging agents (NR 40)

7. Forest Health – Maintain • Education and outreach: BMP’s, detection, monitoring and management of invasive species. Seek new partnerships to share landscape-level management; expand web use.

8. Figure 1. Counties quarantined (red) for EAB as of November, 2010. Locations of known infested trees or positive traps (star). Map courtesy of DATCP. Emerald Ash Borer

9. EAB Survey Results Generally Infested Area: Newburg Infested acres 2009: 10,275 Infested acres 2010: 19,097

10. EAB Survey ResultsGenerally Infested Area: Victory Infested acres 2009: 16,948 Infested acres 2010:  20,897

11. EAB Survey ResultsGenerally Infested Area: Oak Creek Infested acres 2009: 1,825 Infested acres 2010:   16,516

12. Detection program on high-risk state properties. Aerial survey support for DATCP Emerald Ash Borer • Outreach and Education to woodland owners, tree-care professionals and government officials.

13. Emerald Ash Borer • Wood utilization project in the City of Oak Creek

14. Emerald Ash Borer – Implementing NR 40 • Stepping up enforcement of state and federal quarantines that restrict the movement of firewood. • Implementing NR40 pilot in the City of Oak Creek

15. Figure 8 (top). Number of EAB larvae per square meter on girdled and non-girdled trees. Emerald Ash Borer Slow Ash Mortality Project - Newburg

16. Emerald Ash Borer • Partnering with Resource Conservation and Development Groups to Facilitate sustainable harvests to reduce fiscal losses to landowners in EAB areas. Town and Country RC&D (southeast WI) Southwest Badger RC&D

17. Cerceris fumipennis and biosurveillance Cerceris fumipennis at rest while on its way back to its nest with Buprestid beetle prey. Photos by Matt Carpenter, (WI DATCP) B C A Cerceris fumipennis mobile colony project. A) Mobile colony construction consisted of PVC tubes filled with sand and placed in Rubbermaid bins. A light weight foam board was placed over the tube nests to secure the nesting area. B) A lid was placed over the mobile colony to create a wasp terrarium. Wasps were placed in the terrariums and allowed to acclimate to their new nest for 48 hours. C) Once wasps were acclimated, the mobile colonies were placed in the field at select sites, lids were removed and the mobile units were monitored. Photos by Renee Pinski.

18. Emerald Ash Borer • Urban Ash Management Guide • Silvicultural Guide for Woodland Owners • Preparing for Biological Control Release (in cooperation with UW research) • Supporting research: biological control; ash mapping project • Applied for competitive allocation funds to pursue black ash conversion study

20. 2010 - 5,574 acres sprayed @ $33.00/a Figure 20. Areas defoliated by the gypsy moth. Figure 21. Locations of 2010 gypsy moth suppression sprays. Gypsy Moth

21. 2011 WI DNR Proposed Suppression Treatment Areas -Approximately 2,991 acres proposed -38 treatment blocks -8 counties- 2011 - 2,991 acres planned for suppression @ $38.00/a

22. Scale first discovered in August, 2009 • Detection surveys were intensified • Several meetings were held with local forestry staff and DATCP to review options • Options were discussed with colleagues and partners • Decision was made to develop BMP’s • DATCP issued voluntary compliance agreements • Scion wood collected from one tree in 2011

24. Known Locations of H. irregulare as of 11/2010 22 Counties: Adams, Buffalo, Columbia, Dunn, Green, Iowa, Jefferson, Juneau, La Crosse, Marquette, Oconto (2010), Portage, Richland, Sauk, Shawano (2009), Taylor (2010), Trempealeau, Walworth, Waukesha, Waupaca (2009), Waushara, and Wood Counties

25. Sauk Co. forest (13 acres)

26. Columbia Co – private property • 19 acres • Stand established in 1961 • Last thinned 2001-2002 • Surveyed in 2009 • 18 confirmed pockets • Ave 3.1 dead trees /pocket

29. A “Field Guide to Terrestrial Invasive Plants in Wisconsin” was developed by staff to assist in identification.