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• 7/31/2023 • Grant Success Stories Grant Success Stories Columbia Heights:2019 Preparing For EAB ' Lake Crystal:2019 Preparing for EAB Erma�"'•ft Baer Musgaistrw (S100k in grant funds). • 1 ($4,500 In grant funds) ••296 ash trees removed s •• Public tree inventory and EAB management plan • 344 new trees planted ' completed with contractor assistance • 223 ash preserved with emamectin '' "... 7°s• ' --v ' •The EAB plan provided a strategy for low-income . benzoate through match funds ' ,,r homeowners to successfully address EAB. • Every City newsletter during the grant had ` •'s' $. •A page on the City's webske was set up.It will •stories about EAB,Including grant activities • �. be updated in the future to communicate and updates.The City had many social additional implementation efforts. � ,d,,,,,,,e•��• media updates about grant activities,as •�; • �••-- well as several videos posted to YouTube. ' xn2=41... imam ...a.s../......weran,Wl A 7Is1 M ..nivp.lmmo eitylorit• M. Grant Success Stories EAB Management Guidance . Moorhead:2021 Preparing for EAB • Minnesota Department of Agriculture considers May 1—September 30 to be ($60,000 in grant funds) the flight season for EAB.This means that EAB adult beetles are emerging •182 ash trees removed,182 new trees ' ° _,I from infested wood or trees and flying in search of new hosts during this time. planted " The best management practice is to not remove ash trees when EAB are •146 of the removals and 151 of the 4. actively flying(May-September),to avoid the risk of EAB emerging from this material In transit or at a processing location. replacement trees were in El census tracts.; - a •Residents impacted by the removal of a i boulevard tree were notified of the project a and were issued a survey asking their III---,.'t ,.a,, , • • reference on-trees " _- p species replacement. 71B1Bl4 r.ar.,wytimr.rd.t,mr ]S 7I$ 5I. rairam'namw.i,w«ny M CI