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.