To: Board of Supervisors
From: Agricultural Commissioner
Agenda Section: Consent
SUBJECT:
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Approval of Agreement No. 832639, the Invasive Shot Hole Borer University Reimbursement Agreement in the amount of $10,763.
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
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That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Approve Agreement No. 832639, the Invasive Shot Hole Borer University Reimbursement Agreement with the University of California, Davis; and
2. Authorize the Chair to sign the original agreement and return the signed copy to the Agricultural Commissioner's Office for further processing.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
University of California at Davis (UC Davis)
DISCUSSION:
The Agricultural Commissioner's Office receives annual subventions from the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to offset the local costs associated with enforcing certain state-mandated programs. One of these programs, pest detection performs annual surveys for known pests of agriculture and the environment. County detection surveys are the local component of an annual state-wide effort by CDFA and County Agricultural Commissioners to identify introductions of these pests before they become established.
Beginning in the spring of 2021, the Agriculture Department will survey Humboldt County for a recently introduced pest to California, the Invasive Shot Hole Borer (ISHB). ISHB are two closely related species of small, non-native beetles that bore into trees and introduces a fungi (Fusarium sp.) that causes a tree disease called Fusarium dieback. ISHB are believed to have been accidentally introduced into California via wood products or shipping materials from southeast Asia and were first identified in Los Angeles County in 2012. ISHB has since spread to 6 other counties (Orange, San Diego, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, and Riverside). ISHB attack a wide variety of tree species including avocados, common landscape trees, and California native species in urban and w...
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