Ash Protection Collaboration Across Wabanakik

As of October 2024, Maine Forest Service recorded new satellite detections in Aroostook County and changed Maine’s EAB quarantine boundaries to now include parts of land stewarded by Mi’kmaq Nation. For basket makers needing to move a limited number of brown ash logs outside of Maine’s EAB quarantine area, a limited use permit can be […]

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On October 8th and 9th, 2024, APCAW hosted over 20 speakers and panelists from Tribal Nations, Universities, Federal and State agencies, and nonprofit partners to present to a hybrid audience of over 200 people about hope and challenges surrounding brown ash protection. While the first day focused on the scientific predictions of the impact of […]

Read about Maine Audubon’s efforts to release biocontrol, inject healthy trees, and collect seed to sustain the white ash trees in their property in Falmouth, ME: https://maineaudubon.org/news/putting-gilsland-farm-to-work-in-the-effort-to-preserve-maine-ash-trees/

Recent newsletter from the Maine Forest Service: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MEDACF/bulletins/3aac2ee The Maine Forest Service and the APCAW Lab at the University of Maine are cooperating with the USDA APHIS Forest Pests Methods Laboratory and private landowners in a study that will integrate insecticide treatments of ash with biological control releases. In this first year of the study, we would like to identify one more […]

On June 21st, 2024, John Daigle will speak about APCAW at the Lake Conference organized by the Lake Stewards of Maine & Maine Lakes. Find more information here. 

Forest Health Concerns for Tribal Forestry Programs in the Northeast April 04, 2024 – 12:00 PM Access the recording here. In this webinar, Tyler presented a framework for considering species preservation in the context of non-indigenous insects and pathogens (NIIP) as it is described in D’Amato et. al, 2023. He shared several NIIP that are […]

Dates: Still being finalized For Tribal Nation members only Beginning in February 2024, Tyler Everett is conducting four in-person community meetings with the communities of each Tribal Nation partner (Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point Sipayik and Indian Township [joint meeting], Penobscot Nation, Mi’kmaq Nation, and Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians) to discuss ash management priorities. […]

Members of the APCAW lab John Daigle and Tyler Everett recently co-authored a publication with a number of partners from Akwesasne Mohawk Tribe, US Forest Service, other Universities, and the Forest Stewards Guild about the adaptive strategies available to manage ash as EAB takes its toll on Northeastern forests. The information in this publication is […]

Collecting ash seeds is one way to conserve ash trees, and thus make it possible for Wabanaki relationships with ash to survive and thrive. On Tuesday, September 12th a APCAW hosted a seed collection training session at the University of Maine Forest which was attended by nearly 40 people, representing conservation organizations, state agencies, large […]