State awards $ 3.6 million for preventing, controlling invasive species

Michigan (WPBN/WGTU) – Michigan state spreads $ 3.6 million in financing at 32 projects that will help prevent and detect invasive species.

Financing is done through The program of granting invasive species in Michigan.

The program has four key objectives:

• Preventing the introduction of new invasive species.
• Consolidation of the early response and response network to the invasive level at the state level.
• Limiting the spread of recently confirmed invasive species.
• Management and control of large -scale invasive species.

Financing funds will support several early detection and response efforts for several invasive clock species, those that represent an immediate or potential threat to the economy, environment or human health in Michigan and either have never been confirmed in the wild in Michigan or have a limited distribution:

• The supervision and treatment of Adelgid from Hemlock to the northern edge of the infestation in the counties of Antrim, Charlevoix and Emmet along the shore of Lake Michigan.
• Conducting surveys for adelgide with hemlock wool along the southern coastal areas of the upper peninsula.
• Use of environmental DNA monitoring to detect hemlock woolen adelgide in high priority areas and to better identify and predict the insect.
• Conducting the survey and treatment of weed infestations mile-a-minor in Calhoun County.
• Following the progress of the symptoms of beech leaves to determine survival rates and possible American beech resistant stems.

Financing will also support efforts to prevent the spread of invasive species:

• Improve the effectiveness of eurasian water chemical treatments by genetic detection of Milfoil populations to determine their response to herbicides commonly used and emerging.
• Building a network for improving information on, preventing and monitoring and response to invasive aquatic species in northern Michigan Lakes.
• The support of the Go Beyond Beauty program, which increases the awareness of the invasive ornamental species with high priority in the trade, as it extends the regional centers to several cooperative areas for the invasive species in the state.
• Continuing support for the clean schedule for boats, clean water, including its subsidy program and mobile boating crew, to educate ships and fishermen on the prevention actions of the invasive species they can take.
• Supporting the continuous public reporting of invasive species detects and an increased library of identification resources and training opportunities through the information network on invasive species in Midwest, housed at Michigan State University.