The new Virginia quarantine of EAB has expanded to include Fairfax, Arlington, Fauquier, Loudoun and Prince William counties.

Todd Haymore, Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), signed orders Monday (July 21, 2008) expanding the Fairfax County quarantine area to include the counties of Arlington, Fauquier, Loudoun and Prince William and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax City, Falls Church, Manassas and Manassas Park.

The emerald ash borer has once again been found in northern Virginia, and we (the  Virginia Department of Forestry) all knew this day would come.

Sudden Oak Death has been implicated in the Basin Complex Fire (Big Sur, California) as making the burn hotter and harder to fight.

The threats to the redbay tree of southern coastal areas are vividly described in Susan Cerulean’s new article on www.terrain.org

Redbay will brush against you - from your knees to your chest - from Virginia south into the Everglades, and west to Texas if you walk into a river bottom forest, or a coastal hammock. High in the canopy, there it is too, filling up the space between the level ground and the branching of live oaks, palms and pines. You can count dozens to hundreds of trees per acre.

A community blog in Maryland featured dontmovefirewood.org on Saturday the 5th.

A community blog in Maryland featured dontmovefirewood.org on Saturday the 5th. It is great that other blogs are picking up our site- this will help our message spread far and wide.

Visit the Rockville Central blog at  this address: http://www.rockvillecentral.com/2008/07/dont-move-that-firewood.html!