Is the MDA really doing an eradication?

Updated April 2, 2005

If your read Within what boundries of a section of the state did the MDA determine an eradication should be done?" you see that Section 20 of Act 189 says an eradication should be removing all host plant nuisance within specific boundaries of a section of the state. The MDA determined that they would remove all host plant nuisance within ½ mile (2,640 feet) of a found EAB. Action taken within 3,000 feet of where the pest has been found is, according to Act 72, is called "repression and control." The MDA is not even taking action in the full 2,640 feet specified in the MDA's Order. They are acting only in a 600 foot distance (One twentieth of the area called for by the half mile cut.) If action in 3000 feet is "repression and control," how can the MDA call action to an area just one twentieth that size to be an eradication?