A Tennessee tree nursery that transported seedlings infested with an invasive species into New York in violation of state regulations will be subject to fines and advance monitoring, the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced Tuesday.
Tennessee Wholesale Nursery will have to pay the state a $2,500 penalty and submit monthly nursery stock orders through 2020 in order to continue doing business in New York.
The business brought eastern hemlock seedlings infested with the hemlock wooly adelgid, an invasive, aphid-like insect that threatens New York's ecologically important hemlock trees, into Oswego and Schenectady counties, according to the DEC.
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