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)

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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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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