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  "path": "/news/2026-05-secret-bay-summer-woodchips.html",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-21T13:00:08.000Z",
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  "textContent": "New research has shown woodchips to be the secret weapon to keeping ticks off recreational woodland trails, including eliminating nearly all Lyme disease-carriers when treated with insecticide. The two-year experimental field study led by Katarina Ost, doctoral candidate at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa under Manisha A. Kulkarni's supervision, and in collaboration with researchers from Bruyere Health Research Institute, Université de Montréal, and Dalhousie University, provided evidence that both treated and untreated woodchip interventions can effectively reduce tick populations in a recreational context, a simple and cost-effective way for communities to combat these critters.",
  "title": "The secret to keeping ticks at bay this summer: Woodchips"
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