Manitoba Natural Resources and Northern Development is sending out inspectors who will be looking for trees infected with dutch elm disease or infested with emerald ash borer.
You may see inspectors, who will be donning high-visibility vests and carrying government-issued identification, driving, biking, or walking around public and private properties.
As well as the previously mentioned things inspectors will be keeping an eye out for, they will also look for elm firewood with bark. It is illegal to store as it can spread dutch elm disease.
Staff may not go up to every resident or house before entering properties to do the inspections, but will ring doorbells or knock on doors before taking any branch samples or marking any trees for removal.
