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2007 GYPSY MOTH COOPERATIVE SUPPRESSION PROGRAM TO BEGIN
Charleston, W.Va. – Agriculture Commissioner Gus R. Douglass recently announced that the West Virginia Department of Agriculture’s (WVDA) aerial treatment for gypsy moth in the Cooperative State- County-Landowner (CSCL) Program will begin around the first week of May, depending on egg mass hatch and larval development. Commissioner Douglass said that, “public notification, environmental assessments, biological evaluations, work plans, safety plans, and decision notices have all been completed for the project which is a cooperative effort with the USDA Forest Service, West Virginia Division of Forestry and landowners to protect the State’s forest resources.”
The Program will likely operate out of the Cumberland Airport at Wiley Ford, West Virginia. The contact numbers for the operation will be 304-813-9625, the New Creek Office at 304-788-1066, or the Charleston Office at 304-558-2212.
A total of 11,237 acres in Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral, Monroe, Morgan and Webster Counties will be treated under the CSCL Program. The proposed treatments will consist of a single application of Dimilin 4L on 9,251 acres and a single application of Bacillus thuringiensis var karstaki (Btk) on 1,986 acres.
For more information on the WVDA’s gypsy moth treatment program, you may contact Gary Gibson, Director or Clark Haynes, Assistant Director, of the WVDA’s Plant industries Division in Charleston at 304-558-2212 or Butch Sayers, Gypsy Moth Program Manager, in New Creek at 304-788-1066.
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The West Virginia Department of Agriculture protects plant, animal and human health through a variety of scientific, regulatory and consumer protection programs, as mandated by state law. The Commissioner of Agriculture is one of six statewide elected officials in West Virginia. Currently, Commissioner Gus R. Douglass is the longest-serving agriculture commissioner in the nation. For more information, visit www.wvagriculture.org.
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