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HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Agriculture Secretary Russell C. Redding reminded Pennsylvanians--particularly those that heat their homes using wood--that the Emerald Ash Borer quarantine remains in effect in 43 counties. The quarantine is designed to restrict the movement of ash materials and all hardwood firewood and wood chips. "Consumers who use wood to heat their homes and businesses are urged to burn local firewood only and heed the restrictions on moving...

WASHINGTON, May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- May 23 to 29, 2010, has been designated Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) Beetle Awareness Week and the public is being asked not to move firewood. See video from USDA at: http://inr.synapticdigital.com/USDA_37395 Federal and State agencies are waging war against the EAB, a small but destructive beetle that already has killed tens of millions of ash trees since being detected in 2002. Typically EAB does not travel far on its own, but it can live in cut wood and it...

HARRISBURG, Pa., May 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvanians can play an active role in safeguarding the state's hardwoods industry from a potentially devastating invasive pest, Agriculture Secretary Russell C. Redding said today as he stood among towering ash trees on Harrisburg's City Island. "Governor Rendell proclaimed this week as Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week to remind Pennsylvanians of the serious threat this invasive beetle poses to our state's nation-leading hardwoods...

Move Helps Protect Against Invasive Species, Benefit Important Industry HARRISBURG, Pa., March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding announced today that out-of-state firewood producers now have two additional treatment options for exempting their firewood products from a quarantine meant to keep harmful invasive species from entering Pennsylvania: heat treatment and fumigation. "Invasive species can have a damaging effect on Pennsylvania's...

Campers Statewide are Urged to Stop Transporting Firewood HARRISBURG, Pa., June 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Emerald Ash Borer beetles have been found in Allegheny Township, Westmoreland County, bringing to seven the number of counties where the ash tree-destroying pest has been identified, Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff announced today. The invasive beetle was first detected in Pennsylvania in the summer of 2007 in Butler County, and subsequently was found in Allegheny, Beaver,...

Forestry officials in the Northeast are scrambling to track thousands of residents of Massachusetts searching for tree-eating stowaway bugs they may have inadvertently carried to campgrounds or vacation homes.The insect is the Asian longhorned beetle, which has devastated trees in Worcester and surrounding communities.  Officials fear that some have hitched rides into other states in firewood transported by campers or seasonal homeowners."As far as New England is concerned, you should...

Quarantine Imposed; Campers Urged to Stop Transporting Firewood HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Emerald Ash Borer beetles, an invasive species that destroy ash trees, were identified in Granville, Mifflin County, Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff announced today. The beetle was first detected in Pennsylvania in the summer of 2007 in Butler County and was found again the following summer in Mercer County. To help slow the spread of the beetle, a state-imposed...

By Steve Bennish Staff Writer Free firewood is one of the big upsides to the aftermath of the Sept. 14 windstorm that hit the Miami Valley and southwest Ohio. With natural gas costs expected to soar, having a wood stove or fireplace insert as a standby heat source should pay off. The key is knowing how and what to safely burn. That means that the storm's bounty -- fashioned from the limbs, branches and sections of trees felled -- should be allowed to dry until next winter before it is...

By Scott Taylor AUBURN - Burning wood from the city's urban forests to heat homes this winter might be a waste, city officials say. "The fact is, we might be better off selling that wood for other uses, and using the profits to help pay for heat this winter," Recreation Superintendent Doug Beck said. "There is a lot of potential in our community forests, and it's our job to develop it for its highest and best uses." That doesn't mean simply burning the wood, Beck said. He recalls that the...

According to anba: In less than one year, over 5,000 hectares of dryland woods were preserved in the semiarid region of Pernambuco state. This preservation was only possible due to the use of sustainable wood promoted by the gypsum hub of Araripe, located 700 kilometres away from state capital Recife. This new raw material comes from areas of native vegetation (caatinga) but with plans of forestry management approved by the Brazilian Environment and Renewable Natural Resource Institute...