Acknowledgements
We thank all of the community scientists who participated in this
project including Albert Krause, Alex Brown, Bill Collins, Bill Kleiman,
Bob Kidder, Craig Mott, Donna Glenn, Erwin & Gwen Thomas, Everett
Fuller, Daryl Guest, Sean Burdick, Harry Bartges, Francis Culbertson,
Gary Kraszewski, Greg Helfrich, James Meehan, James Roberts, Jeanne
Menard, Jennifer Williston, John Sineath, Kaitlyn Sarlo, Karen Blakeley,
Kirk Barkel, David Allen, Larry Strack, Matt Dettlaff, Matt Ross, Nate
Hibshman, New England K9 Search and Rescue, Nikki Gammans, Norman
Pollock, Paul Hicks, Quality Deer Management Association (National Deer
Alliance), Randy Behm, Rich Herd, Richard Poeppel, Rick Hill, Robert
Barnes, Russ Hartwell, Shane Hesting, Suffolk County Department of
Health Arthropod-Borne Disease Laboratory, Ted Nixon, Tim Lewis, Todd
Woida, and Vincent P. Sharkey. JCF and ATT were partially supported by
Grant No. DGE-1545433 from the National Science Foundation and the IDEAS
program at the University of Georgia. MJY and ATT are partially funded
through Cooperative Agreements AP19VSCEAH00C004 and AP20VSCEAH00C041,
Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
Additional support was provided by SCWDS member state wildlife agencies
provided by the Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Act (50 Stat. 917)
and through federal agency partners, including the United States
Geological Survey Ecosystems Mission Area and the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge System. ATT was partially
supported by and through the United States Department of Agriculture
Animal Plant Health Inspection Service’s National Bio- and Agro-defense
Facility Scientist Training Program. Tick samples collected by HCT from
Illinois drag collections resulted from work supported through an
agreement with the Illinois Department of Public Health. The content is
solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily
represent the official views of NSF, USDA, the Illinois Department of
Public Health, or the Centers for Disease Control. GD was supported by
funding from the US Department of Energy through Cooperative Agreement
number DE-FC09-07SR22506 with the University of Georgia Research
Foundation.