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Tony Cordelette
Weed scientist and Supervisor of Noxious Weed and Industrial Hemp Programs at Minnesota Department of Agriculture since 1998.
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Jul 24, 2026
Teamwork Tackles Tree of Heaven
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Lonnie AndersonGUEST
And so they work together with Dakota County to figure out funding to help eradicate it on the private land.
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11:02Tony CordeletteGUEST
Yeah, and so this came to my attention from one of my staff brought it up.
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11:07Tony CordeletteGUEST
And, you know, we have a process in place at the Department of Ag for prohibited eradicate species.
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11:16Tony CordeletteGUEST
We've done the same response in dealing with roundleaf bittersweet, dumblation toadflax in northwest Minnesota, palmer amaranth statewide, and a host of other high priority weeds that we do not want to establish in Minnesota.
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11:32Tony CordeletteGUEST
And when this was brought up to me that MnDOT had found this, I put my team together on rounding up everybody we needed in sort of an incident command structure that we use that, you know, was really popularized in food safety, health types of areas.
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11:54Tony CordeletteGUEST
And what it's allowed us to do is get all the players we need in one area of communication, for lack of a better way to describe it, so that we're not duplicating things.
