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Pest Trend Impact Plot System

The Pest Trend Impact Plots (http://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/technology/ptips/plots.php)

project was funded to establish a series of permanent plots using consistent plot establishment, data collection, plot maintenance, and database management procedures. Over 17 years, plots were established and remeasured in stands affected by major forest pests, for use for the improvement of pest damage estimates, validation or development of pest models, and monitoring forest health. From 1990 to 2006, for 135 plot sets nationwide, in stands affected by: Comandra Blister Rust (33 plots), Root Disease (2,822 plots), Dwarf Mistletoe (409 plots), Pitch Canker (30 plots), White Pine Blister Rust (98 plots), Ozone Damage (57 plots), Jack Pine Budworm (262 plots), Spruce Beetle (95 plots), Western Spruce Budworm (1023 plots), plus an unspecified number of plots tracking impacts of Beech Bark Disease, Piñon Ips, Southern Pine Beetle and Douglas-fir Tussock Moth.

This project will organize and analyze Pest Trend and Impact Plot data to communicate pest trends in the USA to all interested parties. 1) To maintain the data, a repository for the PTIPS datasets will be created. Data will be sorted through, checked for accuracy, and explained with metadata; 2) The data will be analyzed to provide pest trend data summaries; and 3) to the extent possible, data will be analyzed more thoroughly and the findings from the PTIPS plot data published.

Project Locations

Tree Mortality: Scientific Resources

Resources:

Government Agencies

Australia
- Ensis Forest Biosecurity and Protection (Ensis joins Australia and New Zealand agencies)
Canada
- Canadian Forest Service
  - Forest health page
  - Atlantic Forestry Centre, Fredericton, New Brunswick
  - Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
  - Laurentian Forestry Centre, Sainte-Foy, Quebec
  - Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
  - Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, B.C., has a very nice forest pathology site that focuses in part on root and butt rots important in the Northwest, and includes a super online diagnostic and disease guide: Common Tree Diseases of British Columbia
  - Forest health research programs in Canadian Forest Service
- British Columbia, Ministry of Forests, Forest Practices Code Guidebooks
- Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Finland
- Finland's Metinfo Metsien Terveys (Forest Health Services) including basic facts, glossary, and an online diagnosis engine, no longer in English (Finnish)
New Zealand
- Ensis Forest Biosecurity and Protection (Ensis joins Australia and New Zealand agencies)
South Africa
- South African Tree Pathology Co-operative Programme
Sweden
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Forest Mycology and Pathology
Switzerland
- Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf
United Kingdom
- UK Forestry Commission Plant Health Page
United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization, forestry page
United States
- US Forest Service
  - National Forest Health Protection page. Shortcuts to regional forest health pages:
    - Northeastern Area, links to many online publications and other resources
    - R1 - Northern Region
    - R2 - Rocky Mountain Region
    - R3 - Southwest Region
    - R4 - Intermountain Region
    - R5 - Pacific Southwest Region
    - R6 - Northwest Region
    - R8 - Southern Region
    - R10 - Alaska Region
  - Research branch, with links to 8 research stations
  - Forest pathology pages by Brian Geils of the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Flagstaff AZ, with special, very useful sections on mistletoes and rusts (for instance, online literature searches)
- Colorado
  - Colorado State Forest Service tree pest publications
- Minnesota
  - Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources tree care
- Oregon
  - Oregon's Department of Forestry forest health page

Scientific Societies

North American Regional Groups

Southwide Forest Disease Workshop (SWFDW)
Northeastern Forest Pathology Workshop (NEFPW)
Northeastern Forest Pest Council (NEFPC)
North Central Forest Pest Workshop (NCFPW)
Great Plains Tree Pest Council (GPTPC)
Western International Forest Disease Work Conference (WIFDWC)
Western International Forest Insect Work Conference (WIFIWC)
California Forest Pest Council (CFPC)

Universities and Extension

Tree Pests and Disease course taught by William Livingston at University of Maine
Diseases of Forest and Shade Trees course taught by Robert Blanchette at University of Minnesota
Web page of Thomas Harrington, Iowa State University
Web page of Dale Berghdahl at University of Vermont
The Bugwood Network at University of Georgia (online documents and photos)
Fact sheets from Pennsylvania State University
The Texas Plant Disease Handbook has good coverage of trees in a nice list of diseases, including descriptions and management recommendations.
The forest pathology section of the Plant Pathology Internet Guidebook has lots more forest pathology links.
Ornamental Pathologist's Internet Guide at North Carolina State University
University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Forest Pathology and Dendrology Group

Mycology

The WWW Virtual Library Mycology Page - Kathie Hodges' ultimate catalog of mycological resources on the net.
A few chapters of Bryce Kendrick's The Fifth Kingdom have been adapted to the web and others have been supplemented with online photographs.
This page at the Univ. Wisconsin - La Crosse leads to lots of photos of forest fungi.
Fungal databases at the Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, USDA
Fungal databases at Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Search engine for Canadian culture collections
American Type Culture Collection
Index Nominum Genericorum-- a compilation of generic names published for all organisms covered by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
Mycology at Kew Gardens
Fungal Biodiversity Site at Cornell
A great online book on fungi in culture, by Dave Malloch: Moulds: Isolation, Cultivation, Identification

Web Sites on Specific Disease Types

The Mistletoe Center, maintained by Brian Geils
Pitch canker in California
Tree bark and canker site at University of West Virginia
Root disease management guidebook in British Columbia
American Chestnut Foundation
Sudden oak death in California and in Oregon
Exotic Pests: Online conference on risks of exotic forest pests and their impact on trade
Exotic Forest Pest Information for North America (EXFOR)
Heartrots in Plantation Hardwoods in Indonesia and Southeast Australia
Saskatchewan Dutch Elm Disease Association
Hazard Tree Web Page

Events:

North Central Forest Pest Workshop (NCFPW)

2011, October 3-6
Hartland, Michigan, USA
info

7th Continental Dialogue on Nonnative Forest Insects and Diseases

2011, October 5-6
Boulder, Colorado, USA
info

59th Western International Forest Disease Work Conference (WIFDWC)

2011, Oct. 10-14
Leavenworth, Washington, USA
info

IUFRO Alien Invasive Species and International Trade

IUFRO Working Party 7.03.12
2011, October 16-21
Tokyo, Japan
info

IUFRO Forest Entomology–Forest Pathology Joint Meeting

IUFRO Working Party 7.02.00 & 7.03.00
2011, November 8-11
Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay
info