Concerns over the Michigan Department of Agriculture's (MDA) policy of destroying healthy ash trees
Update April 2, 2005

To find out what the Michigan Department of Agriculture is Doing to Michigan's ash trees please read Who's doing this website and why?

Why is the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) destroying healthy ash trees on private property and how did they get the right to do that?

So, what's wrong with the MDA's interpretation of the law which he says allows him to declare the ash tree a host plant nuisance and to have it eradicated?

How else can the MDA fight something like the EAB?

Why do Michigan Acts 189 of 1931 and 72 of 1945 cover the same things?

In what section of the state did the MDA say they wanted to do an eradication?

Within what boundaries of a section of the state did the MDA determine an eradication should be done?

Was it really an eradication that the MDA Ordered?

Was the MDA supposed to treat trees before destroying them?

Was the MDA supposed to pay people for healthy trees he destroyed?

Is the MDA really doing an eradication?

Conclusions

Here's some other legal issues that the Michigan Department of Agriculture might want to look into

A message from Save Your Ash to the Michigan Department of Agriculture

If anyone has any information about the Ohio, Indiana or Canadian government programs which they would like to send us we will be glad to pass the word.