HWA Guided Tour
Shaun Kittle
Hemlock Wooly Adelgid
The group at Stewart’s Ledge Overlook
On March 8, 2025 a group from Schroon Lake Association attended the Guided HWA Walk with Shaun Kittle from APIPP and Leah Smistoff from Lake George Land Conservancy. This event took place on the Buck Mountain Trail at Lake George and was well worth attending! The group was taught to identify HWA along the trail and trained to use the iMapinvasives app. The education will enable SLA to be better scouts when we “adopt a trail”.
From Shaun Kittle:
Adirondack Park
Invasive Plant Program (APIPP)
Communications Manager
Anyone can be a Forest Pest Hunter
It’s true! Even if you couldn’t make the guided walk, there are plenty of resources online to help you begin your Forest Pest Hunter journey. Sometime in April HWA becomes mobile, so APIPP has set a cutoff date of April 6 for monitoring for HWA. We discourage people from getting too close to HWA when it’s on the move because we don’t want the little insects hitchhiking to a new location. Even with the cutoff date, there is still plenty of time to adopt a trail to monitor for HWA. Take a look at APIPP’s Forest Pest Hunters page for additional resources, and sign up for a trail to monitor here.
And of course, we need to know if you did or didn’t find HWA! Let us know by using the iMapInvasives app to report either a detect or non-detect in the area you monitored. By submitting a non-detect, you are letting us know that the trail has been monitored and that HWA was not found.