Are You Planning to Harvest Hemlock in York County?
Notice:  NEW RULES — Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

Hemlock woolly adelgid is a dangerous insect pest of hemlock.  In response to the adelgid’s presence in Maine and its range expansion in states to our south and west, the Maine Department of Agriculture and Maine Forest Service have worked together with stakeholders to revise the quarantine rules for this non-native insect pest.  Hard copies are available from the Maine Forest Service Insect and Disease Lab, call (207) 287-2431. 

Regulations of the quarantine restrict the movement of all hemlock products with bark attached including (but not limited to) biomass, logs and pulpwood from six southern York County towns:  Eliot, Kittery, Ogunquit, South Berwick, Wells and York.  Movement of hemlock products from infested counties in other states is similarly restricted.

The new rules affect hemlock forest products in the following ways:

• Hemlock forest products may be transported freely within the quarantine area
• In Maine:  Eliot, Kittery, Ogunquit, South Berwick, Wells and York.
• Outside of Maine,hard-copy maps and county lists will be provided upon request (call:  (207) 287-2431) on-line versions can be found at:
• Map:  http://www.na.fs.fed.us/fhp/hwa/distribution_maps.shtm
• List:   http://www.na.fs.fed.us/fhp/hwa/infestations.shtm
• From August 1st through February 28th hemlock from the quarantine area may be transported to mills or other businesses outside the quarantine area which maintain a compliance agreement with the Maine Forest Service related to the handling of regulated products.  Please contact the Maine Forest Service Insect and Disease Lab at (207) 287-2431 for a current list of companies with compliance agreements to receive regulated materials. 
• From March 1st through July 31st hemlock forest products harvested in the quarantined area may not be moved outside the quarantine area without first being inspected by a Maine Forest Service inspector and certified as apparently free of adelgid.  Prior to harvest, please contact the Maine Forest Service Insect and Disease Lab to set up an inspection.  Following certification hemlock products may be moved to a facility with a compliance agreement to receive regulated products from the hemlock woolly adelgid quarantine area.  No hemlock material from infested stands may be moved outside the quarantined area between March 1st and July 31st.

If you have any questions please contact: 

Health and Monitoring Division

Maine Forest Service

SHS #22, Augusta, ME  04333-0022

(207) 287-4981 or in-state 1-800-367-0223

www.maineforestservice.org

 

 

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