You have your N. Od it since it's such an ambitious agenda to get through in one hour. And I don't have a copy in front of me but maybe we can just start with a status report and and move into like survey and monitoring and then move on to the next to the other subcommittees as they choose. So Cody, would you be willing to that is going to our here's Patrick, maybe he
goes, go ahead. I don't have any real announcements other than I've been searching and I'm guessing Can folks see the chat box at all? Is there is or is that still not available for folks? I know we've been dealing with that. Not seeing it. Okay. I've gone through just about every setting I can in between meetings and it worked for another meeting I had that. Apparently still not work in here. So I apologize for that. I'll keep looking into it. If there's anybody out there who's a team's expert please let me know. We'd love to figure it out somehow. Happy Election Day, also, and then I wanted to quickly share an update on our website as an announcement. So thanks to Jim Kirk Spock from odf for helping with this. We had some issues with a domain being transferred over that was previously used the Oregon EAP dot info. So that one is currently inactive if you try to if you've tried it, so we just purchased a new domain. It's Oregon eap.com which might be a little better for the public and we've updated our EAP page here, too. And we've stolen some of this information from various places. So if it looks familiar to some of you, it should so thanks for anybody who we have copied but press releases videos. This is where we'll put the various resources. And we're still working to update this taskforce area with minutes and recordings and things like that. So standby for that. We're also doing kind of a complete overhaul of the invasive species Council website. Altogether that we've been working on for the last couple of months. So this will look differently. I mean the contract will be the same but the site itself will look a little different in the in the coming days and weeks. Okay. So Cody, status update, and then we can roll into committee reports.
Yeah, and just make sure I'm partitioning this correctly. And also before I do that, thanks so much for your hard work, Jim Griesbach, and Patrick and others who have been working on that website. That's wonderful to see some progress there. So thank you. That's wonderful. Did you want me to give an update just generally or did you want me to get into the survey subcommittee updates?
Why don't you go ahead
and knock out both. That'd be that'd be great. General landscape. So your committee update?
Sounds good. Well, I think more generally, Chris has been working on getting a release date for the quarantine. And right now we're looking at November 21. Is when that's hopefully hitting the ground. And I think we have a lot of things nailed down for Washington County and what that language looks like one thing that is in need of some more refinement and I will be looking for some input from the steering committee is the marshalling yards. We need some better communication between the waste subcommittee and the steering committee as to what language we put in there as we refer people to waste facilities and other yards that can be used to take waste to I think we have some lists that have been generated by Wyatt Williams and others but why it has told me that he hasn't quite gotten to vet those yet. And he also wants to have a discussion with the steering committee of those that are listed are appropriate cooperators so that's the topic I think that needs some more, more love here in the next two weeks, especially. So but yeah, hopefully we'll have the quarantine out for Washington County here at the end of the month, which would be wonderful. I think a lot of people are waiting on that. So but as far as survey subcommittee goes, I was able to have a meeting yesterday with my group. One of our larger cooperators in that group is Clean Water Services, Robert Emanuel. He was not at the meeting and did relayed to me just that they've been doing the same thing they've been using survey 123 or possible and out on the ground, doing some visual observation and building protocols to help train and get more people involved on their team. So not too much to report there for Clean Water Services. Portland Metro did chime in and let us know that our special use permit that will allow us to work on their land is going through right now. So if you do have desire to be on the ground and any Metro properties, please connect with us make sure we are on the same page as what you're up to there and the activities meet the standards. Of that permit that we filed with them. And
yeah, I
rob Hamrick from Portland Metro also brought up in our meeting, the idea of expanding the survey 123 app access to others in his team and at our advisement of making sure to connect with the training committee. We said that that was probably something that he should look into doing, especially in the Greater Portland metro area. So if you have other team members that you're working with that maybe want to be a part of that. Again, make sure they're getting that first detector training and working with Alex Gorman, getting the right materials, the right exposure, but we'd like to build upon that team of people who are cooperating So Alex, I know I'm saying your name a lot feel free to chime in and say no way but Sorry, I
go you That was perfect. Timing. I literally just joined the meeting. Oh, perfect timing. Indeed. Yeah, I was I was actually looking at some ash and was like, oh, so I love it. Here. Sorry for missing all of what you
said. No, no, it was all good. I was just telling folks that you know, we had some Robert Hamrick at Portland metro was saying he might want to build upon his team members that are actually contributing to the survey 123 app and contributing to that data we can all see on the dashboard and we just reiterated to him that we wanted to make sure they were getting that training via first detector training or at least speaking to someone on the taskforce about how to get that training. So I mentioned your name to those folks that were interested in getting some training, so you might get some emails there. But yeah, I just wanted everyone to know that that's something we're pushing for. We want to get more people involved if you haven't already gotten involved.
So
and then I talked with APHIS. They didn't have a ton to report beyond our last taskforce meeting beyond the fact that they were just continuing to build upon their survey plans for this next year. We're going to be cooperating with them in a large way, I think as we get more of the visual survey done in Forest Grove, and they'll be helping us out with that over the next few weeks to a few months. We had Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation districts with us there Tyler Peterson represented that group and told us they were doing some assessments of some of their natural reserve areas, making sure to get some ash inventory protocols built up so they could possibly join the fight and add to our database as well. We did have some representation from fish and wildlife as well and they were also wanting to grow their team of people surveying and so they were reaching out about those training materials too. And then a lot of them our work was pretty Oda focused last few weeks I think. I've had Max working on bio control efforts, I think in past taskforce meetings. I've touched on that a little bit. But Max has continued to go out and to get some data on some of the Fernhill wetlands and gills Forest Grove properties. Those are Portland Metro properties just south of Forest Grove. And they are pretty ideal release sites for some of our beneficial parasitoid wasps. And so Max is building up a nice dataset of well over 2700 ash trees now that we're getting crown classification data on and we'll be able to use this not only for Wasp release information, but also going forward we'll be able to look at what our ash stands in this area look like this year, compare the two years going forward. So I think it should be a great first effort here and kind of getting established on these areas. Max Do you want to add anything there or show them the dashboard real quick?
Yeah, I can share that map. Yeah, it is a huge undertaking, and something that we likely will not measure every tree again at the next site. Can you see my screen? Yep. Right. So this is Fern Hill wetlands. For those of you not familiar, the first detection is just honestly not too far off the map. Just north of Fort burn Hill. By law, honestly, it's a quarter mile. But also there was one positive purple prison trap right here in Fern Hill wetlands. So what you're looking at here is each individual.is An individual ash trait size of the dot corresponds to DBH and color of the dot corresponds to canopy class. Green being a canopy class one perfect healthy tree. Red being academy class five, the canopy is completely dead and gray being canopy class while we were doing this in the last couple of weeks, so it's kind of turning into fall and we can't do canopy class after the leaves fall. But DBH is still an important metric to get for this. So this is the gist of it. This is what we've been up to recently and it is a massive undertaking. 2700 Trees measured so far and we still have a large section of the wetland to go
if if you found any other evidence add in there.
Some evidence of minor infestation but we're not currently doing any D barking or branch cutting we're going to work with Fern Hill. Use this data set to pick trees to the bark, branch cut etc. Later in the winter, I wanted I was at this point prioritizing getting as much of the site surveyed with canopy class as possible before the leaf starting to fall. Right now that site
to max and others have found some late instar I think fourth instar larva and some of the smaller trees there. Correct me if I'm wrong there, Max.
We found a third instar larvae that was during the USDA training day in one of the trees actually. Rob walked by it after taking the training right it was right next to where we all parked. So sometimes, you know, pack mentality is not great. But yeah, so we've found EAB there. I from looking at the site overall. I think it's an early infestation I think as a perfect bio control release site. It's not heavily invested. We're not seeing huge ash mortality across the site. It looks like it'll be a great spot for multiple of the all of the species that we're going to release in Oregon, which I believe are gonna be three and four species we might release the fourth at the top to USDA about that it's getting into the weeds. But overall the survey there is going quite well. We have text on the feet on the ground this week, working on the dash and working on the dashboard extending it outward further and re surveying some of the trees in Forest Grove to basically add a second set of eyes on those trees as the winter comes. Woodpecker activity gets a lot more prevalent now and as a great symptom inside to look for. So that's what we're going to be focusing on coming soon.
Yeah, thank you so much Max. I appreciate you showing them out there. Carrie, I might if you have the time to show us the other map that you're building great. If not, I'll just talk about it here in the next few minutes. But beyond bio control efforts, Oda is also working with a team of four seasonal staff that are going to be here through the winter, furthering our visual survey efforts, and we'll also have a coordinator coming on. Right now. In the interim we have Ashley Toland, who's normally working on our Japanese beetle eradication efforts. Ashley is going to be helping lead that team of four into winter surveys here. We've got a 50 mile radius buffer around Forest Grove that we're putting quarter mile grids over overlaying that area. And we're trying to go through and systematically check for Ash so that we have a better idea of where we can act in the spring with treatments and other efforts. And also at those locations while we're doing the visual inspection looking for any signs of EAP as well and adding that to the EAB survey 123 dashboard. And so they are really excited to get more of that data coming in a little more systematic less random as it's been the last few months. So if you have desire to get to know the Forest Grove area for any of your needs, we should have a lot more data coming in on the presence and absence of ash around some of these riparian areas and within Forest Grove so yeah, carry I don't know if you have that map already, but if not, we can probably leave it at that and if anybody has any questions on that,
I didn't have a I mean, it's an online map. So I don't know if it's gonna show a whole lot of it. I mean, just the survey 123 that's embedded in the field map. So the techs have access right there and in the map because we also have the grid that Cody mentioned. So they can click on each quarter mile grid and then classify it as how much ash is there. So that we wanted to have, you know, that was the survey 123 all in the same place for the tech so they can enter it really quick.
Thanks, Carrie.
Yeah, so if anyone has any questions on those efforts, please don't feel like you can't reach out. I'm working with Mariah probably the next week or two on getting APHIS up to speed on our protocols there and how we're going to be doing things they can either contribute or at least not double dip and we can make sure to adjust the area appropriately. But yeah, that's that's what's going on with survey efforts. I know there's a lot there. Apologies. I'm usually a time sink here. But I think that's it for the most part. I already mentioned that we needed to connect as a steering committee on I think the GreenWaste situation. Yeah, my I think upcoming tasks for my committee will be talking through treatments as well. That's another big discussion of creating trap trees this spring and treating trees around that. We're working with Karen Ripley and US Forest Service right now on funding that would target treatments specifically around riparian areas around Forest Grove and we also have our own emergency board funding to do treatments within Forest Grove itself. So it'll be a pretty massive effort and one that if you find yourself wanting to be a part of that conversation as well, I'd love to have you attend one of our future subcommittee meetings. Anyway, I'm gonna leave it at that and if you have any questions on quarantine treatments, survey, anything like that for this message me or the team that I'm part of.
Thanks. Thanks, Dr. Curry. Any questions for Cody? Okay, let's go to communications. And Jim and his cat look like they probably have an update.
Yes, she's fascinated by the Zoom calls. Yeah, so a couple of things. I've spent some time with Wyatt Williams going over the communication plan for the fall and any updates and I see. Cody, one of the things that we should add in there is if you guys are going to be officially designating a quarantine zone that was one of our contingency things was we were going to communicate when there was in fact a quarantine declared. So you're saying that will be just prior to Thanksgiving. Is that still something I should go to the bank on?
I feel pretty confident at this time. That's hopefully the day it actually gets through right now. It's going up to my superiors here at the ODA to get signed by the director. But assuming everything goes normally up there and we get paperwork back in a timely manner, that's that's the date that Chris has put forward.
Okay. And my assumption is that that would be coming out since that's an Oda is the ruling body that you would be enforcing. I mean, you know, you're the ones that officially release the quarantine, put it on and release it so I'm assuming that's an Oda would be distributing the news release out to the media, etc, right. And then what if we can get a copy of that then we can post it on the away a C with working with Patrick and get that up and on there, the same day that it's, you know, official so that it's available to everybody on that central site. And then people could link to that if they want to put the details about that. Will Let have a map because I think that'll be what a lot of people want to know. So I'm assuming there's a visual attachment to that.
Yeah, so with the release of this new rule on quarantine, we're going to be putting out two different outreach letters or materials, whatever you want to call them. The first will be more of like a basic fact sheet that we'll talk about the quarantine and what that means for those that are involved. And then we'll have a second document that's more of an official letterhead going out to larger cooperators and industry leaders that might have a larger stake in the game. The first document there is something that we're trying to make a lot of headway on now. I have Daniel Mettler who's a part of the comms committee working on it currently. And so, my hope is that he'll be able to work with you closely on what we're building up on that document and how it can kind of work in tandem with the announcement that you'd like to make.
Perfect. We're, I'm hoping to put out a an announcement about our schedule will be the second the Communications Subcommittee will be meeting the second Monday of every month. So November 14, is would be our next scheduled meeting. So we can have Daniel, he's a member of that subcommittee. Give us a rough you know, kind of an update on where things stand and and what we can anticipate for that. So I just want to make sure that because I think that's going to be our next outward communication. The emergency funding that came through the emergency board has already been out through Andrea's releases. So November 21, the quarantine and then early December. I think the grant for the ash seed saving the federal grant that odf received, they have wrapped that up. They're sorting seeds now but they're done with a collection. They're going to have a final tally of how many seeds they actually did collect under that and we'll be putting something out about what's going to happen with all that seed probably in December, so that would be the next wave of communication would be quarantined. Then, conclusion of the ash seed saving project and then in February is the national invasive species week is February 27 through March 3. And one of the things we want to do at least at odf. And I would encourage other agencies to do that is highlight any EAB activities during that week. So we'll be posting on social media one day in particular, they'll be five different days where we're going to hit different invasive species but highlighting EAB on one of those days as one of the biggest things currently affecting Oregon and again, linking people to that central information page it will be to read more go to I guess the Oregon eab.com Now is the length that we're going to be using but that's where we would drive people in that and then at the end of April when when the trees are leafed out enough that you can actually identify them. And hopefully prior to the emergence of EAB adults, we would then have a more general release at that time that says now's a good time to if you haven't already learned to identify the trees. Take advantage of some of the things that we have been so Alex, I'm kind of looking to you guys, if you have a lot of things planned in the spring identification classes, things like that. We kind of roll that into this release that would sort of be a general call to now's the time to get active about learning and preparing, identification and also being aware that when the adults fly, do you know the difference between that and a look alike and then again, hitting the central place to report which is going to be that OASC webpage? So those are the kinds of looking out over the next say six months, being able to have those as the highlights. Again, individually, each agency if you have a particular class or a tree Walker, a talk that you're giving in a local area, kind of like what Alex did up in our story with the master gardeners in Clatsop County. Do send you know, write those up, send those out to your you know, target audience, let us know or send us a copy and we'd be happy to you know, put those on the website if they're abroad or interest but we are tracking those and I put in the teams for those who have access to teams you can update and upload those yourself under the communication sub folder. If you don't have access to that. I'm happy to upload them for you. And we're really just looking for people if you do have any kind of outreach give us how many people did you reach? Who were they? When was the event? What was it virtual or in person? And that way we can at the will have a running tally. So if anybody from the legislature says well, how many people have been reached without reach or education? We'll be able to say the running tally as of today from what's been reported as X number of people in this many venues 60% of which were in person or whatever. So encourage people if they haven't gone to the team site, see if you can get on there if you are able to check out that spreadsheet and add in any that are missing that you haven't you know if you've done something like that could even be just a small group or you know could be even your own in person, you know, to your own staff trainings could potentially count and I think those are kind of the major ones that I was thinking about. Yeah, the subcommittee meeting the 14th. And I think that's essentially the major highlights except that beyond that in June, we're going to have the Oregon Community trees annual urban conference with odf is held in Portland world forestry center and its focus will be on EAB. Some some talk about other pests but predominantly about EAB as the primary example of an invasive species. That's really impacting tree health in the state. And we'll have hopefully and Scott can maybe address as we were hoping to videotape the presentations, there will be panel discussions that will go very in depth on treatment options, removal versus treating, when where why, how much what are the risks and benefits and then one on wood waste. So where you know, where should you be taking this wood? What can you do with it? If you want to burn it, what are the best options for doing that? That don't get you in trouble with the smoke in the communities, you know, burial versus killed treatment etc etc. And then also very important is trying to get some nurseries and others together to talk about what are we going to do about replacement trees. And that's a big, big topic and there's kind of two tracks to that. One is replacement trees within natural areas. So you know you're looking at native species predominantly, but also in street tree situations and parks and private lots. What can we do about the replacement trees that we are going to need? Are we going to have enough of them? And do we need to in advance grow those so they're there in three to five years when the mortality really starts kicking in, in a big way. So I think Scott's going to be involved in helping pull that panel together in June. So more to come on that and each of those can then be a five minute modular video that can be posted again on that common website and available for people that can't make it to the in person event on the first of June. That's I think under report for now.
I don't want to interrupt the flow. Jim, what was the name of that event? Again?
It's the annual urban forestry conference and it's put on by Oregon Community trees and odf and it's on Thursday, June 1 Kind of 8am to about four in the afternoon. So it's kind of an all day conference. Awesome. Thank you
chair. Research Committee, Dr. Dave Shaw
ever everybody Yeah, I've been somewhat of a slacker our group has not had a Zoom meeting or anything like that yet. We have circulated some, some discussion around what are the what are the major topics that we would want to get research programs going in? Right now. We're talking about seven different areas. Once the eaab biology and life history in Oregon, which I think Max is all over that and is working on that as he does these other studies. The controlling Oregon biological control, and perhaps biological control beyond the parasitoid was management of post EAB wetlands. This has come up as sort of the number one topic of most land managers, especially in the North Valley, and around porn and nursery production of ash in Oregon is also sort of a question Is there still nursery stock being grown in Oregon? Is this possible? There's some other discussions around that, particularly if alternatives to you know, for urban forestry if some of the Asian ash were to be grown in Oregon. Anyway, and then genetics of Oregon Ash is a pretty important one and then just the whole vegetation ecology around Oregon ash and and Oregon ash dominated wetlands in particular. So those are the general topics, the group we're there's some some kind of question about what the goal of our group should be, in terms of in my mind, I guess in terms of whether we should be actively like writing research proposals, or are we actually just facilitating research, you know, basically research coordination, and sort of networking and facilitating and helping anybody who's going to submit some proposals. So for example, I think Alex and Chris are working with Jared Polis and Dave Showalter, who may be the team lead. On a proposal right now with Karen. Alex do or Chris, do you want to describe real briefly what that project is?
Yeah, I can jump in and care and I believe, call Karen. You know, correct me if I missed anything. So really the big goal for this project with David Shaw authors, a postdoctoral scholar at OSU with jailable. This is going to be developing tools and resources for small woodland owners, not aerial timber, landowners to conduct survey and monitoring on their properties. And so we have we're also working with Patrick Phillips out of shorts out of Washington State University Extension. He covers nine counties in southwestern Washington and so he's got a landowner in Richfield Washington. We've got a landowner in Washington County that we're going to use as these sites to develop David will develop those materials and, you know, there's a bunch more we're trying to figure out but you know, site characteristics, and all that stuff and potentially carry I don't know if we've talked about it yet, but also, trials for plantings big might be a thing we talked about so that was pretty pretty quick by Karen anything want to add to that? I guess
I just say he's, he's gonna develop a standardized inventory system that will feed into landowners management plans, that target landowners kind of 300 to 2000 acre landowners, so not just non industrial privates, but maybe conservation area managers and to help them understand what their ash resources and some of the physical conditions that that Ash is growing in that might influence the suitability for different alternate ash species. And so, looking forward to part of the requirements for Dave's work is to work closely with the research committee and the survey and monitoring committee in order to help you know, create efficiencies and provide some tools for these larger landowners and land managers to understand their ash and position them for moving forward making decisions about what they can continue to grow. They're
great, well, thanks, you guys. So that's one of the projects that's sort of a mix of both the survey and monitoring and there's some research questions that they want to answer in there. Particularly, I think the trial plantings of other species in these wetlands and then determining how they grow. Yeah, did you want to add anything there, Alex? Or no? Okay. So we have had folks from the Institute of Applied Ecology, join the research community also and there is a lot of interest in you know, what, what could potentially be lost with ash and I think that's a big gonna be a big research question of a lot of people out of interest but controlling the EAB and protecting these other resources would be you know, some of the highest priorities so the research committee, we hope to have a meeting this month, and, and then I think we'll be, you know, facilitating things. Oh, oh, and also Rob sleepsack has with the US Forest Service, research Pacific Northwest Research Station has also submitted proposals to his groups to potentially do some vegetation ecology research, also associated with ash in Oregon, Washington. So anyway, that's just it sort of the short, short end of that our committee I think, is some, you know, like I said, we'll be meeting later this month, and then hopefully, we'll have more to report. We have sort of a list of priorities. I guess the The final thing I would want to say is that the Oregon Department of Forestry did send me their top three priorities for research. And one their number one was research and monitoring plots of VAP spreading establishment and it sounds like Oregon Department of Agriculture is already implementing this. The project with Alex and Karen I think would Dave Show otter would continue this. They're really interested they're one of their number one concerns was replacement tree species. You know, what can we replace Oregon ash with and then finally, they were Aligarh excuse me why I was noting that od odf is concerned about any research into wood waste, wood utilization, biochar, firewood, sterilization, firewood, risk benefit modeling or anything along those lines. They're really interested in supporting and seeing get done. I don't know if anybody from odf wants to jump in there. But I got those three points from Wyatt, who's also on our committee here. Okay, well, thank you.
Any Do you want to jump in gyms
or? Yeah, just real quick on your alternate planting of species to replace ash. That was one of the things that has come into the communications is a real strong desire from landowners and others to get what are my my options for replanting. So, we I think we'll probably have to by 2020. You know, by the time when we get into next year, we're probably going to have to have a document of some kind that says at least here's what your options are now, and it would be good to tie into but further research is you know, we can mention whatever it is that you're going to be doing. So that we can say this is temporarily what we know now. It's kind of state of the art like you know, if you if you're bound and determined to replace in 2023. Here's what we know. But we don't know a lot about some of these species. We don't know their survival rates in areas that were formerly dominated by ash, etc, etc. So be good to coordinate on that document. With you research folks, what is the state of the knowledge about replacement species, particularly in riparian areas that are not so difficult in the urban areas? Because we you know, they're they're more artificial sites, but I think that natural area, keen interest but not a lot of hard, solid native species documentation yet.
My God, sorry. Sorry,
I Sorry to interrupt. Go ahead.
No, no, no, I was just please go.
Okay. While I was thinking of it, I know that the Tualatin River Valley is unique amongst watersheds. throughout the US. So much focus has been placed on the reducing thermal loading of those critical waterways and I would love I think we have an opportunity here to do some pre eaab water quality, temperature modeling and so now would be the time to I and I'm sure folks are doing it but close to with a view to kind of gauging before and after so if we could, uh huh. I don't know how one would even go about that. But getting the right folks at the table because that is really where we stand to lose as the most as we all know, in terms of water temperature and stream shading. So it seems like a natural fit for research to kind of say this is why investments in this are so important, because they pay dividends down the down the line.
Recently, oh, I'm sorry. I recently went to a talk as it was weeks back from some folks from city of Portland, and another gentleman whose name I'm forgetting now, even though we talked I just met him had done that research specifically on a couple of watersheds within the city of Portland. And so the, I think the the structure of the model is already there to expand I think that there's just getting the folks who want to expand it more Willamette Valley wide and figure out funding for the field tax to actually get out there and do all the verification but my I think my office is particularly interested in that as well because of the thermal loads and streams on fish. So I would love to follow up with you and anybody else on that.
Yeah, I talked to Laura trunk who's on our committee, she's from Jackson bottom wetlands Preserve. And they have some experience along those lines too, and she had a lot of thoughts. I have a feeling it's going to vary geographically, you know, as you go north and south through the valley. But definitely, I think there is we, we, it'd be great to pull that experience together right off the bat because I think there's people who've been doing this and observing survival and that kind of thing. Okay, any other comments on that? I will turn it back over to you, Patrick.
Yeah, one comment. Following up on what you were just discussing. Dominic Mays did that for the City of Portland and he was the one that actually was the first detector for our EAP. So you might want to just connect with him, because he already has that kind of template. Laid out where they did that in Portland.
Yeah, thanks for seeing Yeah, I remember it was Dominic and Julia bond. I just couldn't remember the name of the third individual there. And I didn't want to misstate anyone's name.
Take a quick time check here. We've got about 15 minutes and four committees to get through although I think two folks aren't here but let's go to IPM with Chris Hedstrom.
Hey, everybody, um, so we have a quick update. We've been working to get our document out. We were working on our document to address what to do. What do I do if I'm in the immediate area, that draft is near completes? It's still waiting on wood waste info from Oda and Wyatt, but Kevin Ripley, Max ragazzi. No, Alex Gorman and myself have gone over the draft that currently exists and a Google doc multiple times to kind of really hone it down. Most of it comes a lot of it comes from Alex's work prior with his list of approved pesticides and sort of that that guide he's written. we condense that down. So currently, it's about four or five pages. I'm not sure what format it's going to take. That's kind of up to the comms committee, whether it's going to be a printed material or just going up on the site. Makes sense to put it up on the website. Now. So we can link it. But the key parts, especially right now, or would waste quarantine information, since that's new, we can add that right in there just to link to that. If that changes anything for it. It needs approval that the claims are correct and consistent. So I would like to get that would waste paragraph in there as soon as possible about what to do with it if you're cutting down your tree so we can send it over to the steering committee for final approval, and then go over to comms but once that's done, I think that's set and we can start working on the wider one about what to do if you or how to plan for the eventual EIB investigation in your community. But yeah, so our report is that our draft is almost ready to submit to you. It's just waiting on like maybe a paragraph from odf and Wyatt and otherwise then you guys can can chop it up and we can edit from there
questions for Chris?
No, I'll I told ya I'd fill in for him. I too am on the GreenWaste and would utilization subcommittee and we have a meeting scheduled towards the end of the month but it sounds like it would be helpful to get that feedback that paragraph to you before then or? Yeah, I
think the idea was to try to have this out to coincide with the quarantine announcements since people were going to have a lot of questions and there's probably going to be another media blast at that point. I'll send it directly over to you Scott. I mean, it's an open editing thing right now is just a link that anyone can edit. So don't share it widely. But I'll send it over to you Scott and Christine. I see you're on the call also. Wyatt and indicated that you guys have been working on a document separately anyway, so there's probably some information there. And if you guys have a document that will be ready you know when that is ready. We'll just link to it at that point. But at least for now, something that says hey, if you're cutting down trees, you need to know you can't just do anything with them. And that's essentially what the language says now, but if there are specifics, we'll put them in there. Very good, but I'll send it over to you. Right now.
I guess. Thank you.
But that's all we have.
Mr. Do you have a distribution plan for that? Is that going to be mailer to is going to be mailed to everybody or how?
Nope, that's you guys.
You don't have a distribution plan. You want
us to figure out how we you know we just came up with content embedded it came with resources we liked and made sure that the the language was as consistent as we'd heard from you guys. So once that gets approved, I'll leave that to comms as to the format that that's going to take and where it goes. I think the idea was that either it was going to be I mean, if it can be put into a mailer and condensed that'd be good if you have a list of mailers. The idea was also that it was going to be published through Oregon State University Extension. Jennifer Alexander is on the comms team so she can handle that easily or I can. But I think the easiest way to get it out in the way people are digesting information for the most part is on the web. So at least if it goes up on Oregon EAB with as much detail as we can put in that'd be great. Yeah, okay. Yeah. All we got right now is the document with the content. We have not done a formatting for distribution. Yet.
Perfect. Okay.
Did you have anything else on the wood waste utilization committee to report other
meeting? Not much. We have a meeting coming up and there has been a lot of discussion about identifying suitable marshalling yards for amassing biomass and green waste and then finding suitable sites. In addition to milling opportunities recently had a consultant out visiting from Michigan who found started a business called Urban ashes in Michigan and is really interested in the nexus of building capacity, removing market barriers and regulatory barriers for wood utilization and biomass utilization specifically biochar production air quality permits are a major barrier currently, and just getting folks familiar with the possibilities that you can dispose of ash material, not just through tub, grinding or chipping or slash burning, but through through other means, which are arguably more environmentally sustainable. So we're doing our best to to broaden those and make those connections. I think Alex might mention a little bit about that during his brief. That's about it, though.
Thanks, Scott. Let's see training. Technical Assistance. Mr. Gorman.
Yeah, yeah, so I'll I'll just jump in right where Scott left off. So we had a wonderful as your contacts for so maybe this morning. And Scott brought up the potential of putting together a kind of field day or, you know, training with the air curtain burner. So that's something we're working together and we're going to be talking about and so that's, I think it'd be really exciting possibility and then also what is super exciting is we now have a bunch of Ashwin samples that are kiln dried and ready ready for you know, teaching opportunities. So last Monday, Dave Shaw, Max and then my friends you know, then Olivia earned from 12 soil water conservation and I met with Tom Arden down at Forest bro that's true naturally came down, bagged it did all the ODA approved stuff, took it down to the killer instance or sensing killing Gaston that was treated at 75 degrees Celsius for an hour and then got it all bucked up into and figured you know, I got some soil water gaps that I believe Max got sound and so did basically OD and odf crops up as well, as far as I know, but figured best way to present that would be firewood because that's how the majority of people interact with wood and hopefully really drives home the point that please Don't Move Firewood because you can see there's a there's a bug inside it. Which was so and they are they're dead. That's one of their they've been cooked sufficiently. Not desiccated because it was very humid in the kiln, but they are dead. So just want to reiterate that so not much else to updates. Got some trainings coming up that I'm giving to some master gardeners and you know working with the City of Portland and some other stuff so yeah, we're just you know, do nothing and fun.
Thanks, Alex. Any questions for Alex? Okay, funded committee. I know Chris Benjamin is not here. But Karen Ripley, do you have any updates there?
I think I am the only person on the funding committee. Last month Chris gave a quick report that they Oda had received $550,000 I believe from the emergency board to support their response activities. The Forest Service has provided about $200,000 75,000 to odf for their capacity within their urban and community forestry program $70,000 In the bipartisan infrastructure funding to Oda and that'll support treatments around the Forest Grove area. Part of that slowing ash mortality. effort. And then as we just mentioned earlier, 65,000 to Oregon State University to support a postdoctoral student or postdoctoral appointment for developing these standardized inventory and strategic planning. Tools. And that's what I know about funding for EAB so far.
You're very much Karen.
Okay, four minutes left anything for the good of the order here.
I'll just add that some of the things we're looking at to make the use of that funding. One project I'm very excited about is looking at expanding statewide nursery capacity for urban tree planting. We currently don't have the supply that we need for high quality urban trees that will meet our needs down the line. So anything that we can do to expand that so we're going to be working with a consultant or two to convene folks and problem solve to once again, remove mark, identify and hopefully remove market barriers and create incentives to get more trees grown and in the hands of organizations and individuals. Also looking at expanding paradigms or opportunities for wood utilization that don't just process the wood but involves some social endeavors as well as adults in custody or youth at risk or exploring work force development possibility. So hitting multiple objectives, not just what utilization
Okay, thank you, Scott. Tom Martin.
Yeah, I just have a quick question. We did take out that tree. Alex was there last week, the one Oh, that was Joe Joseph gal Park. The one that was taken over by out of the school district. We did the same thing. We put plastic over a couple of layers and everything's there. There was some labels on that visqueen that said government properly do not transport. Does anybody know where those were generated at or who generated those?
Yeah, that would have been Oda back and that was a second weekend after the first observation. I think we went and put down some tape and some stickers on there. So no one that wasn't supposed to would mess with it.
Is there any way you can share some of those stickers with me?
Yeah, I imagine so. We have people that are actually heading out to Forest Grove pretty consistently. So we just need to connect and get a meeting place. I need to talk with you. Anyway. I actually was talking with Scott yesterday about and as well as Margaret Miller, who I think is also here. We wanted to proposition you with the idea of possibly if you had a place to host that air curtain incinerator that we've been talking about. So it sounds like we've got multiple things to talk about. So I'll probably be calling you Tom.
Oh, that'd be great. Yeah, cuz I've got two more trees that I know for a fact that we got to take out so.
Okay. Yeah. Great to know. Yeah, we'll be we'll be in touch then.
Sounds good. Okay, thank you very much, everybody. We will see you all. While we've been on here. I've been updating the website a little bit so you'll be able to find some of the past meeting at least that transcripts and audio recordings, we're going to put those in a little bit more organized, edited fashion. So right now that transcripts that are on there are not edited. So that's the Mater AI version, which may not be fully correct. So I'll go in there and clean that up a little bit. Our next meeting is December 13. So we'll look forward to seeing everybody then and please keep up the good work and thank you, everybody. For everything you're doing. Have a happy Thanksgiving.
