Goldspotted Oak Borer Publications and Links

Goldspotted Oak Borer Steering Committee

• Brochure (Tri-Fold, Pictorial)

• Oak Firewood Advisory Flyer (PDF)
  Advertencia Sobre La Leña De Roble/Encino (PDF in Spanish)

• Vendors & Sellers Firewood Advisory Flyer (PDF)
  Advertencia A Vendedores De Leña De Roble O Encino (PDF in Spanish)

• Goldspotted Oak Borer Community Preparedness Planning:
  Guidelines for Strategic Action before GSOB Strikes Your Communities (PDF)

• Goldspotted Oak Borer Issue Paper, January 2012 (PDF)

• Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Preventing the Spread of GSOB  Through the Movement of Logs & Firewood, June 2012 (PDF)
  
  

Federal

• New Pest Advisory Group Report , ammended 10/15/2009 (PDF)

• US Forest Service (Website)
  
  • Pest Alert (PDF)
  • "Wanted: GSOB/Trees" (Poster)
  • "Wanted: Evidence/Firewood" (Poster)
  • GSOB Poster (Poster)
  • GSOB Risk Analysis Report, May 2010

• Goldspotted Oak Borer: Insert for the Field Guide to Common Pests and Diseases of Oaks in California (PDF)
  
  

State

• California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection - GSOB Zone of Infestation
  
  
• Cal Fire - "Tree Notes" Fact Sheets
  
  • Tree Notes #3 - "Controlling Bark Beetles in Wood Residue & Firewood" (PDF)
  • Tree Notes #7 - "Keeping Native California Oaks Healthy" (PDF)
  • Tree Notes #19 - "Managing Bark Beetles in Urban & Rural Trees" (PDF)
  • Tree Notes #31 - "Goldspotted Oak Borer" (PDF)

• California Firewood Taskforce - "Don't Move Firewood/GSOB" Poster (PDF)
  
  
• California State Parks - "Goldspotted Oak Borer" (Website)
  
  
• California Forest Pest Council - GSOB Posts

• University of California - UCR Center for Invasive Species Research

• University of California IPM - GSOB Field Identification Guide (PDF)

• University of California IPM - Pest Note on Goldspotted Oak Borer (PDF)
  
  

Region

• Forest Area and Safety Taskforce (FAST)

Articles

• Bibliography (PDF) - Comprehensive list of science based publications

• Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 2008 article (PDF) by Coleman, T.W. and Seybold, S.J.

Licensed Arborists

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