The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has updated its regulated areas to contain the insect hemlock wooly adelgid (HWA). It has been announced that it includes areas of Nova Scotia.
The change is due to previous detections of HWA in Lunenburg County in 2020 and Kings County in 2021.
Effective immediately the movement of all species of firewood and hemlock materials including logs, branches and woodchips are restricted from the following Nova Scotia counties:
- Lunenburg
- Digby
- Kings
- Shelburne
- Yarmouth
- Annapolis
If you need to move regulated articles such as logs and branches or firewood of any species out of the HWA regulated area, you can contact your local CFIA office to request written authorization.
HWA poses no threat to human health, but is highly destructive to hemlock trees. It poses a major economic and environmental threat to urban and forested areas of North America.