eab: community forestry update
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EAB: Community Forestry Update
Amy Kay Kerber | Forestry Legislative Affairs and Outreach Supervisor
Emma Schultz | Community Forest Project Specialist
m, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Big Picture: Ash in Minnesota
• Nearly 1 billion ash trees
• 1-in-5 community forest trees are ash
• Up to 60% ash in some communities
• EAB kill rate over 99%
• Kills saplings down to 1” in diameter
Percentage of trees of
the Genus Fraxinus (Ash)
Inside of Municipal
Boundaries in 2010 And 81 ck Alh Concentration n Cords p r Acr
Total Ash as a Pen:entage of
Total Trees Reported on 2010
Rapid Assessment (RA)
(RA sun,; d malntalned arus)
• 0. . 10
e 10,1 • lOX
• 20.1 . 3ox
30, • 40
• 40 .1 ·60
Bia Ash Forest
Concentrations !2011 Fl-'l
"'"1H per N:/e
CJ Low to None
2- S
5 · 8
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Recent Community Support
2019 • General Fund $700,000 • LCCMR $300,000
2020
• Bonding $1 million
2021
• General Fund + Heritage Enhancement $1.7M
• LCCMR $3.5 million: coming soon!
DNR Grants to Communities, 2019-2021
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m DE P.t.~H,U NT OF MI.T Ull'Al RESOURCES
Grantee Yea
• 2019
2019& 2020
2019& 2021
2020
2021
D County Bo\maries
D EAB County Ouarantil'le
Accomplishments with Legislative Funding
• New Public Tree Inventories and Ash Management Plans
• Newly-Planted Trees
• Communities Served
Community Forest Needs
• Inventories
• Management plans
• Treatments and ash removals
• Replanting trees for diversity
• Homeowner Assistance
Looking Ahead
Community assistance is critical
Lessons Learned
• Financial assistance helps communities, and Minnesota, slow the spread of EAB
• Spreading out the costs over time makes quality management feasible
• The biggest impacts from EAB are yet to come