The symposium will include speakers from the US Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the US Forest Service, the Maine Forest Service, the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, New Hampshire Forest Health Program, updates from New York and Michigan, as well as Wabanaki Tribal resource gatherers who rely on Brown Ash trees for the art and tradition of basket weaving.
Funding for this event has been provided by the Sustainability Solutions Initiative and the Sustainability Solutions
Initiative and the Nation Science Foundation award EPS-0904155 to Maine EPSCoR.