2011 Season Highlights
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2011 Season HighlightsJames Kruse
USDA Forest ServiceForest Health Protection
Fairbanks UnitRoger Burnside
Alaska Dept. of Natural ResourcesDivision of Forestry
Mortality agents (e.g. Ips engraver)
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60,000Northern Spruce Engraver (Ips) Damage 1990-2011
Overlapping Ips & spruce beetle
Ips
Year
Acre
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Green Alder Sawfly
Cooperative project between UAF and USFS complete – Wipfli lab
Willow Leafblotch Miner Cooperative project between UAF and
USFS complete – Wagner lab
Geometrid Moth Defoliation
Other Defoliation – Hardwoods & Shrubs
Firewood SurveySpecies Family Notes on distribution
Ips pini Scolytidae Previously found in AK
Scolytus monticolae Swaine Scolytidae Not previously found in AK; known from AB and BC
Aulonium longum Colydiidae Not previously found in AK, known from BC
Tomnoscheila chlorodia (Mannerheim) Trogossitidae Not previously found in AK; known from other parts of PNW and as far north as S BC and NW Territories
Corticeus praetermissus (Fall) Tenebrionidae Previously known from AK and much of North America
Cooperative Early Detection Efforts• Alaska Pest Risk Assessment Committee
• Exotic scolytid (bark beetle) EDRR National Program• Cooperative U.S. Forest Service grants (Early Detection focus)
Ips perturbatus slash management study – interior AK
Questions?
national forest native other federal state & private unknown Total Of Sum Of ACRES AGENT
1,722 842 9,090 11,654 Alder Canker
11,571 27,016 59,984 22,635 121,206 Alder defoliation
11,761 49,766 45,943 22,881 130,351 Alder Dieback
182 73 1,560 12 1,827 Alder leafroller
279 1,329 2,933 4,541 Aspen defoliation
17 43,690 23,903 71,614 139,223 Aspen Leaf Miner
498 387 18,489 15,100 34,474 Betula nana defoliation
1,432 1,432 Birch aphid
2,667 5,004 14,725 18,111 40,507 Birch defoliation
304 304 Birch Leaf Miner
1,407 200 24 1,631 Black-headed budworm
24,183 269 2,352 26,804 Cedar decline
1407 1,802 730 467 4,407 Conifer defoliation
1,331 13,564 2,270 3,011 20,177 Cottonwood defoliation
3,202 3,202 Cottonwood Leafroller
127 283 165 147 722 Flooding/high-water damage
799 2,958 1,691 1 5,449 Hardwood defoliation
5,240 234 754 6,227 Hemlock Dieback
8,323 1,021 44 1,772 11,161 Hemlock sawfly
197 146 214 557 IPS and SPB
2,827 2,024 1,222 6,073 Ips engraver beetle
1,270 32 107 268 1,677 Landslide/Avalanche
107 4 111 Larch sawfly
127 39 53 1,629 1,848 Large aspen tortrix
115 6 22 73 216 Porcupine damage
189 6,093 27,913 14,659 48,853 Spruce beetle
308 411 147 866 Spruce broom rust
278 182 460 Spruce defoliation
1,661 952 74 1,437 4,123 Spruce needle aphid
57 9 66 Spruce needle rust
3 3 Sub Alpine Fir Beetle
509 5,661 5,249 2,964 14,382 Willow defoliation
380 127 306 814 Willow Dieback
14,715 13,588 21,176 49,479 Willow Leafblotch Miner
2,817 122 28 531 3,498 Windthrow/Blowdown
3,165 4,604 2,585 10,354 Winter damage