Publications and Links

• Trifold Brochure (English)(PDF)
• Trifold Brochure (Spanish)(PDF)

• Goldspotted Oak Borer Infested Wood Best Management Practices (Factsheet; English) (PDF)

• Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Preventing the Spread of GSOB
  Through the Movement of Logs & Firewood, November 2015 (PDF)

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

• Goldspotted Oak Borer Briefing Paper (PDFs):
  • January 2012
  • October 2014
  • May 2015

• Burned Oaks: Which Ones Will Survive? (PDF)

Federal

• Forest Insect & Disease Leaflet 183: Goldspotted Oak Borer
  (August 2017) (PDF)

• Goldspotted Oak Borer IPM Poster (PDF)

• New Pest Advisory Group Report (amended October 2009) (PDF)

• US Forest Service (Website)
  
  • Pest Alert - New Pest in California: The Goldspotted Oak Borer (October 2008) (PDF)
  • "Wanted: GSOB/Trees" (Poster)
  • "Wanted: Evidence/Firewood" (Poster)
  • GSOB Poster (Poster)
  • GSOB Individual Pest Risk Assessment (May 2010) (PDF)

• Goldspotted Oak Borer chapter in Field Guide to Common Pests and Diseases of Oaks in California (2011) (PDF)
  
  

State

• CAL FIRE - "Tree Notes" Fact Sheets
  
  • Tree Notes #3 - "Controlling Bark Beetles in Wood Residue & Firewood" (July 1996) (PDF)
  • Tree Notes #7 - "Keeping Native California Oaks Healthy" (June 1990) (PDF)
  • Tree Notes #19 - "Managing Bark Beetles in Urban & Rural Trees" (May 2015) (PDF)
  • Tree Notes #31 - "Goldspotted Oak Borer" (March 2009) (PDF)
  • Tree Notes #34 - "GSOB Update" (October 2020) (PDF)

• California Firewood Taskforce - "Don't Move Firewood/GSOB" Poster (PDF)
  
  
• California Invasive Plant Council - GSOB Information and Interactive Map (Website)

• California State Parks - "Goldspotted Oak Borer" (Website)
  
  
• California Forest Pest Council's GSOB page (Ctrl+F "goldspotted oak borer")

• UC Riverside's Center for Invasive Species Research - Goldspotted Oak Borer

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

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

Region

• Western IPM Center - Goldspotted Oak Borer Special Report (May 2017) (Website)