invasive species

WSDA: Check Your Trees, Wreaths For Pest
WSDA: Check Your Trees, Wreaths For Pest
WSDA: Check Your Trees, Wreaths For Pest
The State Department of Agriculture is asking Washingtonians to check their Christmas trees, wreathes and other purchased holiday greenery for invasive species.  Last week WSDA confirmed elongate hemlock scale, Fiorinia externa, on out-of-state sourced holiday greenery.  The Dep...
Ag News: AFBF Women’s Boot Camp
Ag News: AFBF Women’s Boot Camp
Ag News: AFBF Women’s Boot Camp
**The American Farm Bureau Federation recognized 15 farm and ranch women leaders as graduates of its Women's Communications Boot Camp fall session. The intensive four-day course comprised hands-on sessions related to public speaking, working with the media and messaging...
Invasive Green Crabs Found off Olympic Peninsula
Invasive Green Crabs Found off Olympic Peninsula
Invasive Green Crabs Found off Olympic Peninsula
BREMERTON  (AP) — Officials in Washington state say an invasion of the European green crabs that could disrupt the Puget Sound ecosystem is continuing. Biologists with Washington Sea Grant tell the Kitsap Sun that 16 of the crabs have been caught this spring at one location on Dungeness Spit near Sequim on the Olympic Peninsula...