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Tivon Feeley
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Emerald Ash Borer Page Update
Many parts of the EAB page are updated. The survey information should be there by the end of the week. IDNR…Continue
Started Jan 16
Top Five Emerging Threat's to Iowa's Forest
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Here is a nice summary of our top five pest concerns. …Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jamie Kirby Feb 5.
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Greatest Threat to Iowa’s Woodlands?
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Mulch with Weed Prevention
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:31pm 1 Comment 2 Likes
Each year holds new surprises for me as the Forest Health Program Leader for the IDNR. Last year we battled with Imprelis lawn chemicals killing conifers. The year before we had Arborvitae dying without a common theme, and we still do not know what caused it. We constantly monitor for oak wilt, bur oak blight, gypsy moth, Asianlonghorned beetles, emerald ash borer, and Thousand Cankers disease of black walnut (to name a few).
This year brings about a new question. Many garden…
Continue Arborvitae Browning
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 4:53pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
As you have seen, or will be seeing shortly, Arborvitae has taken a huge hit this winter. We had numerous days were the ambient temperature was well above freezing and the needles did not stay dormant. There is a tremendous amount of winter desiccation.
Management options:
- Start watering the trees now until the spring rains kick in.
- Prune out anything that has not greened up by the second week in May.
- If these are high valued trees, spraying…
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 9:12am on March 19, 2012, Administrator said…
Welcome to American Grove! We never get tired of your tree passion on The Grove. Please post feedback and/or questions about trees or our network by responding to this comment. Feel free to post photos or post to our tree blog. Thank you for joining your state grove.
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- At 11:22am on March 16, 2012,
Emma Hanigan (Bruemmer) said… Glad to see you have joined the Grove!
- At 10:27am on March 16, 2012, Laura Wagner said…
Hi Tivon - Thanks for the post. If you join the Iowa Grove group, then Iowa Grove members will be more likely to see it. You could also cut an paste it directly into a comment on the Iowa grove page
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