Update on LSU Mulch Warning

**Yvonne Savio y*@ucdavis.edu**

Hi, All--

Thanks to Wynne Thursby, one of our Master Gardeners, who checked further:

>>Further checking on this shows that quarantine procedures are in place in 
>>the affected parishes in LA to prevent this from happening. To wit,
>>
>>Movement of wood or cellulose material is prohibited unless either (1) it 
>>is fumigated or treated for Formosan subterranean termites and is 
>>approved for movement by the commissioner or his designee(s) or (2) 
>>written authorization is given by the commissioner or his designee(s) for 
>>the movement of untreated wood or cellulose material from the quarantined 
>>parishes.
>>
>>So the likelihood of this becoming a problem is extremely small.

Ciao for now.

Yvonne Savio
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