The County provides free disposal sites for private landowners to drop off their infested trees.
Clairmont Recycling & Waste Management Centre – Open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday to Saturday.
Gravel Pit located along Resources Road – on Resources Road 4.5 km south of TWP710. Seven days a week.
The County of Grande Prairie has not received any funding to do control work on private land. That means that residents are responsible to remove infected trees on their land.
The County did receive limited funding from the Forest Resource Improvement Association of Alberta to reduce fire risk on crown land in the area of Evergreen Park and the Wapiti Nordic Ski trails. This work is focused on reducing the risk of forest fire by removing dead and dying trees and reducing the accumulation of slash on the ground. This work is currently underway and should be completed by the end of June.
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Inspect Your Pine Trees
Please take the time to inspect your pine trees. Look for these signs and symptoms:
- Likely the easiest sign indicating the presence of Mountain Pine Beetle is boring sawdust found in bark crevices and around the base of the tree.
- Secondly, look for pitch tubes (small nodules of sap that look like crystallized honey on the bark).
- Peel back the bark and look for live larvae.
- From the air, you'll notice patches of completely red-brown or yellow-green pine trees.
If you do find live larvae under the bark, your healthy trees are at risk.
Remove infested trees immediately (by June 30th). Drop them off at one of the disposal sites provided by the County.
Preventative Treatments
This page contains links to information about sprays and other preventative treatments that have been used in an attempt to control the spread of Mountain Pine Beetle.
- Verbenone pouches can be attached to specific high value trees chosen to be protected; however, they are not a guarantee that pine beetles will not infest the tree. Verbenone is available at local garden centres.
- Keep your green trees as healthy as possible; water is key since a drought stressed tree is less capable of resisting a beetle attack.
Regardless of what you do, there is no guarantee you can save your trees. It depends upon the intensity and duration of the beetle flight in July and August.
