What is an EAB Plan and Why Does A Community Need One?

1. What is an EAB Plan and Why Does A Community Need One? 2010 Minnesota Community Preparedness Workshops

2. "I will prepare and someday my chance will come."-- Abraham Lincoln Photo by: Russell Carr

3. MnSTAC Community EAB Checklist

4. What is an EAB Community Preparedness and Response Plan? • Explains a community’s objective and approaches it will use to meet current or anticipated impact of EAB • A plan that administrators, staff and residents can follow

5. Why Does A Community Need a Plan? • To determine the actions that must be performed to protect the urban forest • Acting now = Spreading the costs over a larger period of time • Opportunity to think about and coordinate sharing costs • Provides a community with a reasonable and responsible method to respond

6. Key Elements for Your EAB Preparedness and Response Plan • Title • Purpose • Applicability • Administration • Ash Management Plan • Monitoring and Reporting

7. Key Elements for Your EAB Preparedness and Response Plan • Update Ordinances or Policies • Identification of Resources and Needs • Potential Competing Priorities • Authority • Communication • Education and Outreach

8. Ash Management Plan

9. Ash Management Plan • Determine how a community will manage the loss of a significant number of trees • Plan for tree diversity to increase resiliency to future pests

10. Monitoring and Reporting

11. Monitoring and Reporting Methods • Purple Traps • Tree Sampling

12. Monitoring and Reporting Methods • Visual Survey • Citizen Reports

13. Monitoring and Reporting: Reporting Protocol Do I have EAB Checklist? Contact Arrest-the-Pest Hotline 3. Confirmation of new infestations

14. Resources

15. Resources • Determine and Describe Resources that will be needed in a community, including: • Financial • Personnel/Volunteers

16. Resources • Financial considerations may include cost of: • Developing the plan • Conducting or updating tree inventory & assessment • Ash tree removals • Tree replacements • Insecticide treatments • Wood disposal • Equipment

17. Financial Resources Purdue EAB Cost Calculator http://extension.entm.purdue.edu/treecomputer/

18. Personnel Resources • Personnel/Volunteer considerations may include • Number of staff and hours needed • New hires vs. contractors • Shared resources among communities • Identifying skilled volunteers • Ex. Tree Care Advisors, Master Gardeners, neighborhood organizations, etc. • Coordination with local emergency response staff

19. Authority

20. Authority • Local Ordinances and Policies • State Statutes and Quarantine • Federal Regulations and Quarantine

21. Quarantines and Wood Disposal • Prohibits Movement of: • Ash material • Hardwoodfirewood • Ash debris must be disposed of or treated within the quarantine • Material can be treated and moved

22. Education and Outreach

23. Education and Outreach • Determine the approach used to educate and inform: • Officials (councils, boards, etc.) • Staff • Public • Contractors

24. Education and Outreach Approaches • Presentations • Handouts • Brochures • Flyers • Mailings • Videos • Others Example of EAB Utility Billing Insert

25. Additional Considerations

26. Additional Plan Components to Consider • Purpose • Declare the purpose and intent • Applicability • Administration • Principle responsibility for implementing the plan.

27. Additional Plan Components to Consider • Potential postponed work • Contact list • Community contacts • Plan preparer contact • Communication • Message • Target Groups • EAB Team

28. Additional Plan Components to Consider • Definitions • Less commonly used terms • Information Section • Provide a brief background of EAB and the community’s stance

29. Summary - Key Elements • Key Elements of Plan • Ash Management Plan • Monitoring and Reporting • Ordinances and Policies • Resources • Outreach • Authority

30. Arrest the Pest Hotline "Arrest the Pest" Hotline651-201-6684 - Metro Area or 1-888-545-6684 - Greater MinnesotaArrest.The.Pest@state.mn.us