Posts Tagged ‘apple maggot’
New Apple Maggot Signs Bring Renewed Awareness To Old Problem
If you’ve traveled over Blewett or Stevens Passes, you may have seen the posted sign warning travelers that they are entering or leaving an Apple Maggot Quarantine Area. That sign and others around state recently got updated, and in some cases, relocated. Marcus Bellissimo reports.
Read MoreLeavenworth’s Spring Cleaning Yard Waste Pick Ups Start This Week
Cleaning out your yard and burning brush in a quarantine zone – two annual spring-time goings-on this week in the Leavenworth area. Marcus Bellissimo has the details on what to do with yard waste if you live in the Upper Wenatchee Valley.
Read MoreApple Maggot Quarantine Expands Into Methow Valley
To ensure long-term sustainability, North Central Washington’s agriculture lands need protection. Whether it’s from drought or frost, or wildlife like deer and elk. But there’s a much smaller problem too, not in the size of the threat, but the size of the threat. There are currently 24 apple maggot quarantine zones in the state, mostly…
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Like Upper Wenatchee Valley Quarantine, Experts Suggest Apple Maggot Zone For Methow Valley
Western Chelan County – Peshastin, Leavenworth, Plain, Lake Wenatchee – is considered an apple maggot quarantine area. Now a working group with the state Department of Agriculture has recommended an apple-maggot quarantine for the Methow Valley after the discovery of dozens of adult flies and larvae — indicating a reproducing and established population of the…
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Wash. Ag Dept. Trappers Start Annual Hunt For Apple Maggots, Moths, Other Pests
Gypsy moths, apple maggots, Japanese beetles – all enemies of Washington growers. Scientists with the State Department of Agriculture start their annual hunt for these pests. Marcus Bellissimo has the details. Photos: Wash. State Dept. of Agriculture
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City of Leavenworth Update – Mayor Cheri Farivar
Leavenworth Mayor Cheri Farivar joins Dan Langager on the KOHO Morning Show to talk about a bill sponsored by Sen. Brad Hawkins and signed by Gov. Jay Inslee last week allowing the city to burn some yard waste despite its location within the state’s apple maggot quarantine zone. The city’s brush drop-off site opens next…
Read More2018 Session Concludes, Senator Brad Hawkins Recaps Bills, Budgets
12th District Senator Brad Hawkins has joined Dan Langager every Tuesday on the KOHO Morning Show during the 2018 legislative session in Olympia. The session wrapped up Thursday and Sen. Hawkins swings by the KOHO studio to recap his bills awaiting the Governor’s signature (apple maggots and forest health) and the supplemental budgets passed this…
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2018 Legislative Session Week 8 Roundup
The Washington Legislature has adjourned its 60-day legislative session. A one-time property tax-cut, fighting to uphold unamended apple maggot quarantine legislation, salary equality for men and women and the capital dome gets some much needed help. Marcus Bellissimo has your final Legislative Roundup.
Read More2018 Session: Senator Brad Hawkins Talks Local Projects In Supplemental Budgets, Sponsored Bills, Public Records Act
12th District Senator Brad Hawkins joins Dan Langager every Tuesday on the KOHO Morning Show during the 2018 legislative session in Olympia. Today Hawkins talks about the three supplemental budgets passed by the Senate this week – operating, capital, transportation, how to spend extra revenues and increase teacher pay, whether bills he’s sponsored in the Senate…
Read More2018 Session: Senator Brad Hawkins On His Forest, Yard Waste, Session Start Bills, Committee Process
12th District Senator Brad Hawkins joins Dan Langager every Tuesday on the KOHO Morning Show during the 2018 legislative session in Olympia. Today Hawkins talks about bills he’s sponsoring and their likelihood of making it out of committee: Senate Bill 6211 creates an account in the state treasury to process revenues collected under the Good Neighbor…
Read MoreChelan County Update – Commissioner Keith Goehner
Chelan County Commissioner Keith Goehner swings by the KOHO studios to talk about his trip to Olympia – meeting with Senator Brad Hawkins about the apple maggot quarantine zone in the Upper Wenatchee Valley, as well as other county issues like landslides, a new judge and more.
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