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Welcome and thanks for subscribing to the Forest Insect and Disease Newsletter. We really appreciate the opportunity to provide you up-to-date information about the health of our Minnesota forests.


In this issue:

photo: Newsletter imagesForest Health Unit news:

  • Ed Hayes retired in April 2010
  • Alan Jones retired December of 2010

2010 in the Rear-view Mirror

  • Ash management guidelines on Forestry-Administered Lands
  • Bur oak blight
  • Diplodia in red pine seedlings
  • Eastern larch beetle mortality
  • Emerald ash borer
  • First Detector training
  • Gypsy moth- MDA State Summary Report 2010 pdf
  • Spruce budworm

On the Horizon

  • Firewood regulations change
  • Forest tent caterpillar
  • Thousand canker disease of black walnut

News from Elsewhere

  • U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Lauches Website for Reporting American Elm external link
  • Symptoms of Annosum root disease

Feature Article

  • Knowing when it's time to say goodbye external link



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