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Forest Service hiring for 1,000 jobs in Pacific Northwest.

November 14, 2016UncategorizedMauget_Online

forestservice The U.S. Forest Service is hiring 1,000 temporary spring and summer jobs in Oregon and Washington, the federal agency announced last week.

Applications will be accepted from Nov. 15 to 21, with positions in fields including fire, recreation, natural resources, timber, engineering, visitor services and archaeology.
Applications must be submitted on www.USAJOBS.gov. Officials suggested applicants create a profile in advance to save time once the hiring process begins, the agency said in a press release.

“Seasonal employment with the Forest Service is a great way to give back to communities, learn new skills, and perform meaningful work,” said Regional Forester Jim Peña.

Those interested in finding more information about a specific position are encouraged to contact the National Forests where the position is hosted, the news release said.

Most current and upcoming Forest Service job opportunities across the nation can be found online at: https://www.fsoutreach.gdcii.com/Outreach

Training and certification 3

October 26, 2016UncategorizedMauget_Online

For over than 60 years now, Mauget has held and sponsored both academic and hands on training throughout the U.S. on a regular basis.
This assures that a Mauget Certified Applicator has a complete skill set to apply Mauget tree injections, including the use of the correct Mauget products used for specific situations.

Mauget Certified Applicators, through the Mauget training programs also have a rounded educated understanding of issues that effect proper tree health.
Customers contacting a Mauget Certified Applicator for treatments with Mauget tree injection products or just information on their trees health, have more confidence in a Mauget Trained and Certified Applicator.+

This allows the Mauget Certified Applicator a competitive advantage over other tree professionals driving more business their way.

Direct Mauget hands on training, whether held by Mauget Certified and approved Distributors, or Mauget personnel have trained thousands in the correct use of Mauget tree-injection technology to better serve their customers and saving them unneeded and unwarranted expense.

An applicator completing Mauget’s training earns a unique Mauget certification numbered and certificate that is kept in Mauget’s applicators data base for conformation.

After completing the certification exam, the applicator will be added and listed into the Mauget Applicators locator on the Mauget website where customers can easily locate applicators in their area.

Mauget certification and training programs mean that applicators gain full knowledge and competence in the use of the Mauget micro-injection tree technology along with a rounded understanding of tree physiology.

Shot Hole Borer/Fusarium Dieback

October 25, 2016UncategorizedMauget_Online

Shot Hole Borer/Fusarium Dieback

Beetle and Fungal Complex: The Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB), Euwallacea sp., is an invasive beetle that vectors a disease called Fusarium Dieback (FD). The disease stops the flow of water and nutrients in over 137 susceptible tree species, which can lead to the death of individual branches or, in severe cases, the entire tree. It is caused by the fungi that the beetle uses as a food source: Fusarium euwallaceae, Graphium euwallaceae, and Paracremonium pembeum. PSHB attacks a wide variety of host species. The beetles bore tunnels (galleries) in which to lay their eggs and grow the fungi.

Read Article and find complete list of trees susceptable

Mauget Certification and Training

October 20, 2016UncategorizedMauget_Online

For over five decades, Mauget has held and sponsored both academic and hands on training throughout the U.S. on a regular basis. Mauget certification training programs mean that applicators gain full knowledge and competence in the use of the Mauget micro-injection tree technology along with a well-rounded understanding of tree physiology.

Now we offer this same training on-line allowing you full access to this valuable training at your convenience. This assures that a Mauget Certified Applicator has the necessary skill set to apply Mauget tree injection technology, including the correct use of all Mauget products used to address specific tree problems.

An applicator completing Mauget’s training earns a unique Mauget certification number that is kept in Mauget’s applicators data base for customer confirmation.

After passing the certification exam, the applicator will be added to the Mauget Applicator’s locator list on the Mauget website where customers can easily find applicators in their area.

Customers contacting a Mauget Certified Applicator for treatments and tree care knowledge, have been shown to have more confidence in a trained Mauget Certified Applicator. This gives the Mauget Certified Applicator a competitive advantage over other tree care professionals driving additional business to them.

Late Fall Fertilizer Tree-Injections

October 17, 2016Fertilizers, news, UncategorizedMauget_Online

Plants including trees and shrubs utilize nutrients throughout the year in different ways.

Late Fall is a good time to micro-inject your client’s trees with Mauget fertilizer and micronutrients.
Generally there are two time frames that are best to fertilize trees:
Early to Mid-Spring and Late Fall (when plants are going into dormancy).
Late Fall, some nutrients are used in root growth, with the remainder stored in other plant tissues ready to be used when the roots resume absorption and expansion in the spring.nutrients are converted to essential plant compounds – sugars, carbohydrates and amino acids – that bolster stem, trunk and root growth.
Injecting Mauget’s micro-nutrients directly into a tree you can be confident that the nutrients are going into the tree and not being consumed by turf and ground covers.
Late Fall Applications of any of Mauget’s effective Fertilizes and tree micro-nutrients , Stemix Plus, Inject-A-Min Manganese, Vigor 53 or Inject-A-Min Iron/Zinc or with Mauget’s Liquid Loadable Hp products will be present within the trees system at the earliest stages of development, becoming available in the trees system exactly when needed early enough in Spring to give them a productive head start.
Early fall applications are generally NOT recommended because the resulting encouragement of growth that often occurs may not have adequate time to harden off before the onset of winter. If not winter-ready, the stems have a greater potential to suffer winter injury because of their soft and supple nature. Depending on where you live, root function can continue into December.

With Mauget’s tree-injection products, you can fertilize trees in which you have limited access to roots such as street trees and trees growing in parking lot island.

Applying Mauget tree-Injection Fertilizer to your client’s trees during in the Fall will free up valuable time in the Spring which is generally a much busier time of year for applicators.

For More Information, Go to: www.Mauget.com

Fall Anthracnose Treatments

October 12, 2016Mailings, news, UncategorizedMauget_Online

Anthracnose diseases affect a wide variety of shade trees. The disease commonly occurs very early each spring when the weather first turns warm.
Injecting trees in the Spring after they have begun to transpire but before the fungus has become active, can be challenging to applicators.
Fall applications of any of Mauget’s effective Anthracnose fungicides, Fungisol, Arborfos or Tebuject 16 will be present in the trees system at the earliest stages of disease development in Spring becoming available in the trees system exactly when needed early enough in Spring to suppress Anthracnose.
Fall applications of Mauget Fungicides are a preferred approach to Spring application because Anthracnose fungus fruiting bodies overwinter in dead leaves, twigs and canker margins on the trees.

Mauget’s effective fungicides, Fungisol, Arborfos and Tebuject 16 are highly effective for controlling Anthracnose in many tree species such as Sycamores, Maple, Ash, Elm, Oak, Walnut, Cottonwood, Dogwood. These are a few examples of trees that are affected over wide geographical regions throughout the world.

Springtime is also a time of year during in which most tree care professionals are very busy and should be watching each individual tree so that they are available to administer fungicides at time of bud break, a difficult task.
Fall injections with Mauget fungicides will solve timing concerns. Freeing up an applicators valuable time so that he can preform several other tasks, on more locations during the same period.

In severe cases of infections and or very favorable weather condition in a given year, an additional Mauget injection treatment may be helpful.

Other Fall Mauget tree-injection treatments can also benefit trees earlier in the Spring such as Mauget’s fertilizer products becoming most available in a trees system at the time most beneficial for the tree to utilize them.

For additional information on fall injections of Mauget’s products, please drop a note to:
info@mauget.com

Refer to Mauget labels for any additional specifications and visit Mauget.com for additional information.

University Of California New Diagnosis Tool.

October 4, 2016UncategorizedMauget_Online

A new plant problem diagnosis tool.
Find it here: UC
The University of California Statewide IPM Program (UC IPM) helps residents, growers, land managers, community leaders, and other professional pest managers prevent and solve pest problems with the least unintended impacts on people and their surroundings.

The program draws on expertise of University of California scientists to develop and distribute UC’s best information on managing pests using safe and effective techniques and strategies that protect people and the environment. These techniques and strategies are the basis of integrated pest management, or IPM.

UC IPM works through Cooperative Extension to deliver information to clients in every California county. Web and printed publications provide a wealth of how-to information about identifying and managing pests, and the program also provides online training courses.

Study Reveals Positive News for Bees and Neonicotinoid Pesticides,

August 18, 2016UncategorizedMauget_Online

A new study, which was published August 16 in the journal Nature Communications, also looks at an 18-year timespan that begins before neonicotinoids were introduced in 2002.
That means the researchers could actually establish a baseline for how bees were doing before farmers began widely using the chemicals.
Wild bee declines have been ascribed in part to neonicotinoid insecticides. While short-term laboratory studies on commercially bred species (principally honeybees and bumblebees) have identified sub-lethal effects, there is no strong evidence linking these insecticides to losses of the majority of wild bee species.
We relate 18 years of UK national wild bee distribution data for 62 species to amounts of neonicotinoid use in oilseed rape.

For a few bees, the scientists estimate about a fifth of their population declines was due to neonicotinoids.
That’s not enough to kill off bees taken by itself. But pesticides aren’t the only challenge bees are facing. Climate change, differences in how we use the land and what plants they can feed on, and parasites and diseases that infect bees are also putting a dent in populations.

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Emerald Ash Borer Now in Texas

August 16, 2016UncategorizedMauget_Online

The emerald ash borer, an invasive species of beetle responsible for killing tens of millions of ash trees across the country, has made its way to Texas, federal and state officials confirmed.

The beetle is responsible for killing tens of millions of ash trees across the country now has made its way to Texas, federal and state officials confirmed.

In the United States, there are 16 ash species susceptible to the emerald ash borer. Texas is home to seven of these species, most of which can be found in the state’s urban forests.
The U.S. Forest Service and Texas A&M Forest Service trapped four adult beetles in Harrison County, just south of Karnack in northeast Texas.
Lab results confirmed those beetles are emerald ash borers, which can kill ash trees within three years of infestation.
The beetle, native to Asia but turned up in the United States in Michigan in 2002 and since then, it has been found in 26 states including Arkansas and Louisiana.

“We are the 26th member of a club nobody wants to belong to,” said Shane Harrington, forest health coordinator for the Texas A&M Forest Service.
Texas officials have been anticipating the beetles’ arrival for years, setting traps across the state to provide an early warning.
Emerald ash borer (EAB) has bright, metallic green color and it’s about 1/2 inch long with a flattened back.

Officials have confirmed that the pest has reached the Lone Star State.
“Removal of poor quality ash, planting trees that aren’t susceptible to emerald ash borer, and protecting high value ash by treating them will help us weather this attack,” said Paul Johnson, urban and community forestry program coordinator for Texas A&M Forest Service.
If landowners suspect an emerald ash borer infestation, they should contact their nearest Texas A&M Forest Service office for help.

Thousands of California Trees Under Siege.

August 16, 2016UncategorizedMauget_Online

A new beetle/disease complex was detected that causes a Fusarium dieback on avocado and other host plants in and near Los Angeles and Orange Counties. The disease is caused by a new, yet unnamed Fusarium sp. that forms a symbiotic relationship with a recently discovered Euwallacea sp. ambrosia beetle,
which serves as the vector. This beetle is morphologically indistinguishable from the Tea Shot Hole Borer, Euwallacea fornicatus (an exotic Asian ambrosia beetle). We suspect that this is a new species (for which we propose the common name: Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer) based on the large differences in DNA sequence between the beetle invading California, and beetles from tea plantations in Sri Lanka and other Asian collection sites. The beetle discovered in California is smaller than a sesame seed (about 0.1 inch in length). The identical new beetle species was found in Israel in 2009 in commercial avocado orchards where it has been causing damage to avocado.

The beetle:
Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB) is very small and hard to see. The beetle holes penetrate ~1-4 cm (0.4-1.57 inch) into the wood and there are often many exit holes on an infested tree. Females are black colored and about (1.8 – 2.5) mm (0.07-0.1 inch) long. Males are much less common than the females, and rarely found. They are small, wingless and brown colored, about 1.5-1.67 mm (0.06-0.065 inch) long. The exit hole is about 0.85 mm (0.033 inch) in diameter.

Damage: Fusarium new species is inoculated into its hosts by the beetle. The fungus destroys the food and water conducting systems of the tree, eventually causing stress and dieback. The larvae of the beetles within the beetle gallery in infected trees feed on the fungus, forming a symbiotic relationship the fungus and beetle.

Fusarium dieback symptoms: White powdery exudate either dry or surrounded by wet discoloration of the outer bark in association with a single beetle exit hole. While there is no visible injury to the bark at this stage of colonization, examination of the cortex and wood under the infested spot bored by the beetle reveals brown discolored necrosis caused by the fungus.

Known Suitable Hosts: Box Elder (Acer negundo), Castor bean (Ricinus communis), Avocado (Persea americana), English Oak (Quercus robur), California coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia), Big leaf maple (Acer macrophyhllum) silk tree (Albizia julibrissin) Liquidambar (Liquidambar styraciflua), Coral tree (Erythrina coralladendron), Titoki tree (Alectryon excelsus), California sycamore (Platanus racemose) and Blue Palo Verde (Cercidium floridum).

Spread in California: Both the fungus and the beetle were found on several backyard avocado (cv. Hass, Bacon, Fuerte, Nabal) trees in residential neighborhoods and commercial avocado groves in South Gate, Downey and Hacienda Heights, and several public arboretums in Los Angeles and Orange Counties.

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