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    • Great Smoky Mountains National Park Emerald Ash Borer Sites

    Metadata Updated: June 5, 2024

    Emerald ash borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, is an exotic beetle that was discovered in southeastern Michigan near Detroit in the summer of 2002. The adult beetles nibble on ash foliage but cause little damage. The larvae (the immature stage) feed on the inner bark of ash trees, disrupting the tree's ability to transport water and nutrients. Emerald ash borer probably arrived in the United States on solid wood packing material carried in cargo ships or airplanes originating in its native Asia. Emerald ash borer is also established in Windsor, Ontario, was found in Ohio in 2003, northern Indiana in 2004, northern Illinois and Maryland in 2006, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia in 2007, Wisconsin, Missouri and Virginia in the summer of 2008, Minnesota, New York, Kentucky in the spring of 2009, Iowa in the spring of 2010, Tennessee in the summer of 2010, Connecticut, Kansas, and Massachusetts in the summer of 2012, New Hampshire in the spring of 2013, North Carolina and Georgia in the summer of 2013, Colorado in the fall of 2013, New Jersey in the spring of 2014, Arkansas in the summer of 2014, and Louisiana in the winter of 2015. Since its discovery, EAB has: Killed hundreds of millions of ash trees in North America. Caused regulatory agencies and the USDA to enforce quarantines (Michigan, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Quebec) and fines to prevent potentially infested ash trees, logs or hardwood firewood from moving out of areas where EAB occurs. Cost municipalities, property owners, nursery operators and forest products industries hundreds of millions of dollars.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    References

    https://nps.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=22cd70839a5544ecb64b357e61608c94
    https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2229654

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date May 31, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date June 5, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOI EDI

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 31, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date June 5, 2024
    Publisher National Park Service
    Maintainer
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    Identifier NPS_DataStore_2229654
    Data First Published 2016-05-16T12:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2016-05-16
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 010:24
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    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id ebbecadd-ef22-4f09-acac-866677c32fcc
    Harvest Source Id 52bfcc16-6e15-478f-809a-b1bc76f1aeda
    Harvest Source Title DOI EDI
    Homepage URL https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2229654
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -84.0139,35.42586,-83.04249,35.8424072
    Program Code 010:118, 010:119
    Publisher Hierarchy White House > U.S. Department of the Interior > National Park Service
    Related Documents https://nps.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=22cd70839a5544ecb64b357e61608c94, https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2229654
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 009db144948f12821368bfd0209ca1c3aefca31f95a88b7926dc95efdfe9170e
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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    Temporal 2020-01-11T12:00:00Z/2020-01-11T12:00:00Z

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