Firewood Campaign
Amy Jordan, Special to the Gazette
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Visitors to Kansas’ popular outdoor venues will see something new this summer — signs that read “Burn it Where You Buy It.”
The signs, about the size used to advertise a house for sale, are part of a multistate campaign to educate summer travelers about the dangers of moving damaging insects from one place to another on firewood.
The Kansas Department of Agriculture joined the campaign to try to prevent the emerald ash borer from being brought into Kansas. The small, shiny, emerald green beetle has been spreading outward from the Great Lakes region since it was first discovered in 2002 in the Detroit, Mich., area.
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