Next Steps This Fall, the Team will assist Maine and Wabanaki tribal governments in developing EAB response plans. Monitoring and seed collection efforts will continue, along with meetings and workshops to spur dialogue and collaboration between stakeholders. The Team also plans to collect data on brown ash ecology, and to survey expert knowledge of Wabanaki brown ash harvesters. These data will be integrated utilizing Bayesian Belief Networks to map areas favoring growth and regeneration of basket-quality trees that will receive highest-priority EAB protection. The 2010 workshop hosted Dr. Mike Bohne of the US Forest Service, Philip Bell of USDA APHIS, and Les Benedict and Richard Davis of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe. Both workshops also facilitated breakout sessions where participants discussed important topics such as seed collection, public education, mapping the ash resource, and forest stewardship strategies. Knowledge-to-Action Our facilitated workshops with key stakeholders have identified three primary areas of research: mapping ash resources, public education/outreach, and seed collection for gene conservation and replanting. During the Summer of 2010, Native American youth from the Penobscot Nation-Indian Island school participated in a 2-day seed collection workshop that will enable future generations of Wabanaki people to maintain the ash resource. Methods Our Team includes university researchers in anthropology and forestry working in concert with Wabanaki basket-makers, tribal governments and organizations, and the Maine and US Forest Services. Our group is facilitating a process designed to link knowledge and action for sustainability while at the same time studying how different groups come together to address a common invasive species threat. Our approach pairs social science research methods such as focus groups and one-on-one interviews with explicit knowledge-to-action integration. Introduction We seek to study and facilitate the ways that Wabanaki basket-makers, tribes, state and federal foresters, university researchers, landowners and others come together to monitor, detect, and respond to the threat of the emerald ash borer (EAB) – an exotic beetle that attacks and kills all three ash species (Fraxinus sp.) found in Maine. EAB is now found only a half day's drive from the state. EAB (Agrilus planipennis) is a small exotic beetle from Asia. Adult beetles feed on the leaves of all ash species, causing minor damage. They then lay eggs on the bark of the tree, and the larvae hatch and burrow inside. Once there, they feed on inner bark, eventually killing the tree. New infestations typically result from transporting infected firewood. The Wabanaki culture and brown ash (F. nigra) have coexisted for centuries, and the creation story of the Wabanaki people is based on the brown ash. 1 PhD Student, School of Forest Resources, UMaine; 2 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UMaine; 3 Associate Professor, School of Forest Resources, UMaine; 4 Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance; 5 Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Forest Resources, UMaine; 6 Undergraduate Research Assistant, School of Forest Resources, UMaine. This project is supported by National Science Foundation award EPS-0904155 to Maine EPSCoR at the University of Maine. Mobilizing Diverse Interests to Address Invasive Species Threats: The Case of the Emerald Ash Borer in Maine Erin Quigley 1 , Darren Ranco 2 , Rob Lilieholm 3 , Theresa Secord 4 , Jennifer Neptune 4 , John Daigle 3 , Jon McCloskey 5 , William Livingston 3 & Molly Lizotte 6 Workshops Two workshops entitled Kolunkayowan Wikpiyik (Protecting the Ash for Future Generations) have been held at the University of Maine – one in October of 2009 and one in May of 2010. The 2009 workshop included presentations from Dave Struble of the Maine Forest Service; Mike Benedict, a Mohawk basket-maker and BIA forester; Theresa Secord of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance; Kelly Church of the Grand Traverse Band of Chippewa and Ottawa; John Banks and Tami Connolly of the Penobscot Nation; and Dr. Bill Livingston of UMaine.
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Next Steps This Fall, the Team will assist Maine and
Wabanaki tribal governments in developing EAB
response plans. Monitoring and seed collection
efforts will continue, along with meetings and
workshops to spur dialogue and collaboration
between stakeholders. The Team also plans to collect
data on brown ash ecology, and to survey expert
knowledge of Wabanaki brown ash harvesters. These
data will be integrated utilizing Bayesian Belief
Networks to map areas favoring growth and
regeneration of basket-quality trees that will receive
highest-priority EAB protection.
The 2010 workshop hosted Dr. Mike Bohne of
the US Forest Service, Philip Bell of USDA APHIS,
and Les Benedict and Richard Davis of the St. Regis
Mohawk Tribe. Both workshops also facilitated
breakout sessions where participants discussed
important topics such as seed collection, public
education, mapping the ash resource, and forest
stewardship strategies.
Knowledge-to-Action Our facilitated workshops with key stakeholders
have identified three primary areas of research:
mapping ash resources, public education/outreach,
and seed collection for gene conservation and
replanting. During the Summer of 2010, Native
American youth from the Penobscot Nation-Indian
Island school participated in a 2-day seed collection
workshop that will enable future generations of
Wabanaki people to maintain the ash resource.
Methods Our Team includes university researchers in
anthropology and forestry working in concert with
Wabanaki basket-makers, tribal governments and
organizations, and the Maine and US Forest Services.
Our group is facilitating a process designed to link
knowledge and action for sustainability while at the
same time studying how different groups come together
to address a common invasive species threat. Our
approach pairs social science research methods such
as focus groups and one-on-one interviews with explicit
knowledge-to-action integration.
Introduction We seek to study and facilitate the ways that
Wabanaki basket-makers, tribes, state and federal
foresters, university researchers, landowners and others
come together to monitor, detect, and respond to the
threat of the emerald ash borer (EAB) – an exotic beetle
that attacks and kills all three ash species (Fraxinus sp.)
found in Maine. EAB is now found only a half day's drive
from the state.
EAB (Agrilus planipennis) is a small exotic beetle
from Asia. Adult beetles feed on the leaves of all ash
species, causing minor damage. They then lay eggs on
the bark of the tree, and the larvae hatch and burrow
inside. Once there, they feed on inner bark, eventually
killing the tree. New infestations typically result from
transporting infected firewood.
The Wabanaki culture and brown ash (F. nigra)
have coexisted for centuries, and the creation story of
the Wabanaki people is based on the brown ash.
1PhD Student, School of Forest Resources, UMaine; 2 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UMaine; 3 Associate Professor, School of Forest Resources, UMaine; 4Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance; 5Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Forest Resources, UMaine; 6Undergraduate Research Assistant, School of Forest Resources, UMaine.
This project is supported by National Science Foundation award EPS-0904155 to Maine EPSCoR at the University of Maine.
Mobilizing Diverse Interests to Address Invasive Species Threats:
The Case of the Emerald Ash Borer in Maine Erin Quigley1, Darren Ranco2, Rob Lilieholm3, Theresa Secord4, Jennifer Neptune4, John Daigle3, Jon McCloskey5,
William Livingston3 & Molly Lizotte6
Workshops Two workshops entitled Kolunkayowan Wikpiyik
(Protecting the Ash for Future Generations) have been held
at the University of Maine – one in October of 2009 and one
in May of 2010. The 2009 workshop included presentations
from Dave Struble of the Maine Forest Service; Mike
Benedict, a Mohawk basket-maker and BIA forester;
Theresa Secord of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance;
Kelly Church of the Grand Traverse Band of Chippewa and
Ottawa; John Banks and Tami Connolly of the Penobscot
Nation; and Dr. Bill Livingston of UMaine.
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