Monitoring and Managing Ash (MaMA) program for citizen scientists and land managers

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Monitoring and Managing Ash (MaMA) program for citizen scientists and land managers

Time: September 25, 2018 from 1pm to 4pm
Location: Cornell Botanic Gardens,
Street: 124 Comstock Knoll Drive,
City/Town: Ithaca, NY, 14850
Phone: 3157814385
Event Type: workshop
Organized By: Hilary Mosher
Latest Activity: Sep 17, 2018

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Join Us!Monitoring and Managing Ash (MaMA) program for citizen scientists and land managers

WHEN: September 25, 1pm-4pm, WHERE: Cornell Botanic Gardens, 124 Comstock Knoll Drive, Ithaca, NY, 14850, RSVP by: September 22 to mosher@hws.edu- space is limited, reserve your seat today! More Information? Contact Hilary Mosher, Coordinator, Finger Lakes PRISM- mosher@hws.edu

This program is sponsored by the Finger Lakes PRISM and Cornell Botanic Gardens

Monitoring and Managing Ash (MaMA) is an innovative ash conservation and emerald ash borer (EAB) mitigation program created and directed by the Ecological Research Institute (ERI), in close consultation with the US Forest Service. It provides specific actions for each stage of EAB invasion, including pre-invasion. These include participating in MaMA’s land-manager and citizen-science projects enabling detection of “lingering ash”, naturally occurring trees that stay healthy even when the nearby trees around them have died from EAB. Our partners at the US Forest Service use lingering ash to yield EAB-resistant lines of native ash, with these trees offering the best hope for ash conservation and restoration.

Using the MaMA Ash/EAB Surveys citizen science/land manager project to report sites where you have or have not detected signs of EAB infestation. This project, hosted on the citizen science platform Anecdata.org, is open to public participation and tracks EAB’s spread and effects in real time. Because knowing where EAB has not yet appeared is important in prioritizing management, both EAB presence and absence reports are needed.

Setting up an ash mortality monitoring plot as part of the MaMA Monitoring Plot Network.  This rapidly growing network comprises sites where land managers or citizen scientists designate particular trees for annual reporting of those killed by EAB. The data that you upload via Anecdata.org are used by ERI to determine which areas are ready to be searched for lingering ash. Participation in this project requires attending a single-session MaMA training workshop.   

Searching for and reporting lingering ash using the MaMA Lingering Ash Search project. Once the appropriate ash mortality threshold has been reached in an area, ERI will notify citizen scientists and land managers to search for lingering ash there.  The locations of lingering ash can then be reported via the MaMA Lingering Ash Search project, also hosted by Anecdata.org. Participation in this project requires attending a single-session MaMA training workshop.  

Using the MaMA Potential Lingering Ash Toolkit to protect trees that might hold the key to ash conservation. It can take years from the onset of EAB infestation for an area to reach an ash mortality threshold triggering the local search for lingering ash. However, before these thresholds are met, you may notice trees that are unaffected by EAB, even when those around them are dying. Our toolkit will help you protect these potentially important trees from being cut down.

Employing the MaMA decision tree to decide between cutting trees vs. treating trees vs. leaving trees for mortality monitoring and lingering ash detection. h.

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