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Forest Health

• Provides tree health care services for the Department’s state forests, parks, and reservations.

• Monitors and assesses factors that influence the health of Massachusetts’ forests utilizing aerial survey, permanent sampling plots, and pheromone traps.

• Maintains historical defoliation data and implements Integrated Pest Management (IPM) on state and municipal lands as required by state law.

New  Emerald Ash Borer Workshop Presentations held in 2012

• Emerald Ash Borer and Your Community:  What You Can Do Now presented by Mollie Freilicher, DCR Urban & Community Forestry

• Emerald Ash Borer: Federal Regulatory Overview presented by Marc Conlee, USDA APHIS

• Emerald Ash Borer: A New Threat To MA Forests presented by Ken Gooch, DCR Forest Health Program Director

• EAB: Outreach presented by Jennifer Forman-Orth, MDAR

• A Legacy in Wood presented by Peter Grima, DCR Service Forester

• Forest Health in MA 2012 Report presented by Ken Gooch, DCR Forest Health Program Director

• EAB in CT and MA Federal Regulatory Overview presented by Patty Douglass, USDA State Pant Health Director