Natural Resources committee  David can talk to you about the risk analysis we did for the firewood pathway. What did you look at?

Natural Resources committee  We also looked at things such as what existing policies govern the criteria. We looked at public information, whether people are even aware that moving firewood is a bad thing. We're involved in partnerships that are doing just that. How far do people bring firewood, and what's

Natural Resources committee  I think it depends on the species. That document does exist for some species. I don't know that it exists in general for invasive species as a whole. We can certainly get you what we are aware of.

Natural Resources committee  In Ontario, for sure, we have EDDMapS, which provides an interactive map of where the invasive species are. In EDDMapS, you can also see the regulated areas under CFIA's control. That will show you where that species has spread and which areas have been regulated. Depending on t

Natural Resources committee  Sure.

Natural Resources committee  I would think that it would still remain invasive until such point as it doesn't have significant impact on the ecosystem and the economy there. That is the type of criterion we have: the significant impact. If there ever comes a time where the EAB doesn't have a significant im

Natural Resources committee  I guess there are examples of where that's not the case, but for our definition, if it goes outside its regular range and it meets the criteria for the impacts, then we consider it to be invasive. If it's already native to the area and it also has a significant impact, such as sp

Natural Resources committee  Thunder Bay is a good example of that, where we engaged our network. Within a week of their originally finding EAB in Thunder Bay, we had our network on the ground doing monitoring. They found how many more trees?

Natural Resources committee  I'll use invasive forest pests as an example, since that's why we're here. We have an insect diagnostician on staff at the ISC. If the citizen is out in the environment and find what they think is a potential sighting, we encourage them to report that through the EDDMapS tool. If

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  Exactly.

Natural Resources committee  To do the prevention, do you mean?

Natural Resources committee  I don't know that anyone has actually sat down and done that work, but we would be happy to do it. I don't know. It's hard to say. I think that would have to incorporate research. It would have to incorporate emergency response, and it could incorporate that fund that we're sugg

Natural Resources committee  The idea around our citizen science network is that we first generate interest. That might be through social media, website usage, or approaching the groups that already have these types of folks in there, naturalist groups and things like that. Once we have an interest and peo

Natural Resources committee  There are other citizen science networks or other organizations that run something similar in other provinces, but there's not necessarily one national citizen science network in place. In terms of being able to have a national reporting tool as well for them to be able to repo