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Alert!! Harvesting and Buying Hemlock from Southern York County Maine2008-09-25
 

Do you plan to harvest any hemlock in the southern York County towns of Eliot, Kittery, Ogunquit, South Berwick, Wells or York? Do you plan to buy hemlock harvested in any of those six towns or from adjacent areas in Southern New England? If you answered yes to either question, the information that follows may impact you. 

[Photo]: Adult Pseudoscymnus tsugae.Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) is an introduced insect which is spreading throughout eastern North America and killing hemlock trees. To help slow the spread of this insect, Maine has a quarantine on all hemlock products with bark from HWA infested areas.  Movement of nursery stock and other live hemlock material from quarantined areas is prohibited.   Movement of harvest related products such as logs, pulp, and chips, although not prohibited, is restricted. 
 
[Photo]:Hemlock woolly adelgid infested branch.At this time of year, adelgid nymphs are settled on hemlock twigs and eggs and crawlers are not present. There is a low risk of spreading adelgid on harvest-related hemlock products and those products may be moved from within the quarantine zone to any facility outside the quarantine zone that has a compliance agreement for HWA. 
 
If you are planning to harvest or buy hemlock from the HWA quarantine area in Maine (the southern York County towns of Eliot, Kittery, Ogunquit, South Berwick, Wells or York) plan to move products to their final destinations before February 28th. After that date, hemlock must be inspected by a Maine Forest Service inspector (or equivalent from the state of origin) and certified apparently free of adelgid. If you do plan to buy hemlock products from the quarantine area, be sure you have an up-to-date compliance agreement with the Maine Forest Service
 
For more information about hemlock woolly adelgid and the quarantine in Maine, visit  www.maineforestservice.org/HemlockWoollyAdelgid.htm ;or contact Allison Kanoti, Maine Forest Service, at allison.m.kanoti@maine.gov or (207) 287-3147. 
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