Emerald ash borers found in NE Iowa

The Iowa Emerald Ash Borer Team confirmed today that the Emerald Ash Borer has been found in Iowa along the Mississippi River two miles south of the Minnesota border in Allamakee County.  The land is owned and managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  It's the first confirmed Emerald Ash Borer infestation in Iowa.

A quarantine prohibiting the movement of firewood, ash nursery stock, ash timber, or any other article that could further spread Emerald Ash Borer is pending from the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship.  A federal quarantine would follow the state quarantine.