Pierce county salal treated

The Washington State Department of Agriculture is working with the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and Forest Service, as well as the State Department of Natural Resources and Pierce County, to mitigate the impacts of the previously identified P. ramorum-positive salal plants in a native landscape adjacent to a Pierce County retail nursery. The response will include remounting drainage ditches where the landscape finds were made and lining them with rock. This will prevent any future nursery runoff from coming in contact with susceptible P. ramorum hosts. The infected salal plants have been killed with herbicide, and the debris cleaned out of the ditches. For more information, contact Brad White at bwhite@agr.wa.gov.