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Curculionidae.
Balaninus sp.
Larvae in Quercus californica acorns.
Note:
- Above is the original taxonomy in the documentation from 1916; see update below.
- In F.P. Keen's Cone and Seed Insects of Western Forest Trees (USDA Technical Bulletin 1169), this image is Figure 4 on page 44. The caption reads: "The filbert weevil, Curculio uniformis (Lec.), and its damage in California black oak acorns."
- The imnage was also used for Figure 196 on page 323 in: Furniss R.L. and V.M. Carolin. 1977. Western forest insects. US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. The caption reads, "Damage by the filbert weevil (Curculio occidentis) to California black oak acorns." archive.org/stream/westernforestins1339furn#page/322/mode...
Photo by: J.E. Patterson
Date: October 1916
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: BUR-1966
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
USDA Bureau of Entomology Forest Insect Station Number 6. W.B. Turner (left) special agent in charge of cooperation with private owners; and H.E. Burke, Agent and Expert in charge of the Northeastern Oregon Bark Beetle Control Project. Baker, Oregon.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: 1911
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: H.E. Burke Collection digital files; Regional Office; Portland, Oregon.
This photo and the following excerpt are from:
H.E. Burke. 1946. My Recollections of the First Years in Forest Entomology. Berkeley, California. 37 p. www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/recollections-on-forest...
"The Northeastern Oregon [Bark Beetle] Forest Control Project really started August 17, 1907, when at the request of Supervisor Howard O'Brien of the Imnaha (Wallowa) National Forest I examined dying lodgepole and yellow pine on teh divide between Little Sheep and Big Sheep Creek near Joseph, Oregon. The mountain pine beetle was found to be the main depredator, but the western pine beetle was also present in the yellow pine. During the preceding three years, 90 to 95 percent of the lodgepole and much of the yellow pine had been killed on the area of over 100,000 acres.
During the spring of 1910, W.C. Calter, an agent of the Wallowa Timber Company of Warren, Pennsylvania, stationed at Baker, Oregon, became alarmed at the dying yellow pine near Baker and started a movement among the private owners to have something done about it. From the Forest Service he heard of the Office of Forest Insect Investigations and started corresponding with Dr. A.D. Hopkins. Forest Ranger W.D. Edmonston of Colorado and I were ordered to Baker to represent the Bureau of Entomology at a meeting of private owners, forest officials and others interested in protecting the timber. Private owners from Baker, La Grande, Portland and Spokane were present and forest officers from Portland and Sumpter (Whitman) National Forest.
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August 3, 1910, Agent W.B. Turner arrived from Washington, D.C. with instructions to work with the private owners of timber and help them to organize and work for an appropriation for forest insect control work in the area."
For more information about this bark beetle control project see:
Burke, H. E., and B. E. Wickman. 1990. Northeastern Oregon bark beetle control project 1910-11. PNW-GTR-249. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 55 p. www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/26285
For a Forest Service account (by Ephraim Barnes and Henry Irelan) of the control work done on the Whitman National Forest, see:
www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev7_015536.pdf
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Central Aircraft's Travelaire 4000 discharging DDT spray over budworm-infested forest. Western spruce budworm control project. Kinzua area, Oregon.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: 1948
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: Boyd E. Wickman Collection; Regional Office; Portland, Oregon.
Andy Eglitis brought Boyd's slides from Bend to Portland February 13, 2019.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Ellen Goheen presenting (center); Sheila Martinson (left) and Kristen Chadwick (right) taking notes, at the first meeting of the Pacific Coast Whitebark Pine Working Group. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon.
Note: "In October 2005, a whitebark pine workshop held at Crater Lake National Park brought together a small group of biologists, geneticists, ecologists, entomologists, and pathologists from California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. The workshop was an opportunity for participants working in Pacific Coast high elevation ecosystems to share information; discuss issues, and concerns; and to help develop a strategy to maintain and restore whitebark and other high elevation five-needle pines in our region. After presentations by Dr. Frank Lang, Emeritus Professor of Biology at Southern Oregon University on the ecology and biology of Pacific Coast high elevation five-needle pines and Dr. Diana Tomback, University of Colorado and the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation on the concerns and status of whitebark pine in the Rocky Mountains, participants engaged in more focused discussions about the questions that need to be answered regarding these species."
For more, see: Proceedings of the Conference Whitebark Pine: A Pacific Coast Perspective, R6-NR-FHP-2007-01 here: pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e1d5/ef37b3e8f9a80683aa51b682f5f...
Photo by: Richard Sniezko
Date: October 5, 2005
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center.
Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
A large area of pine mortality on National Forest lands at the southern end of the Blue Mountains in Oregon.
Note: This photo is Figure 11 in Forest Health Highlights in Oregon - 2015, www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd497928.pdf
Excerpt: "Mountain pine beetle (MPB; Dendroctonus ponderosae) is most often associated with overly dense or mature lodgepole pine but will also infest large-diameter ponderosa as well as the five-needle pines (sugar, western white and whitebark). In 2015, aerial surveys attributed over 290,000 acres of tree mortality to MPB (Figure 11). MPB-caused mortality across all pine species was a quarter less than that from 2014, most likely due to the loss of preferred hosts from previous attacks rather than from improving conditions. "
Photo by: Rob Flowers
Date: 2015
Photo credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection, Central Oregon Insect and Disease Service Center.
Source: Forest Health Highlights in Oregon - 2015; www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd497928.pdf
Annual Forest Health Highlights for each state are available here: www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/protecting-forest/forest-healt...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Seated (left to right): H.E. Burke, Assistant Forest Expert; J.L. Webb, Assistant Forest Expert; and A.D. Hopkins, in charge of Forest Insect Investigations. Standing in the background is F.C. Pratt, Assistant in Truck Crop Investigations. In the first office occupied by forest entomologists in the old insectary, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Washington, D.C.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: December 1902
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: H.E. Burke Collection digital files; Regional Office; Portland, Oregon.
This photo and the following excerpt are from:
H.E. Burke. 1946. My Recollections of the First Years in Forest Entomology. Berkeley, California. 37 p. www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/recollections-on-forest...
"As the leading authority in the United States on forest entomology, Dr. A.D. Hopkins was chosen by the Division of Entomology, U.S. Department of Agriculture, to make an investigation of the Pacific Coast forests during the summer of 1899. On this trip he found the western pine beetle and the mountain pine beetle killing number of trees in the pine forests of California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
One stop on the trip was at the Washington State College at Pullman. Here Hopkins visited C.V. Piper, entomologist of the Washington Experiment Station. Together they made a trip into the pine forests of western Idaho to study various insects, one of these the western pine beetle.
As a result of this trip, Piper induced one of his students, J.L. Webb, to take up forest insects as a major. Webb, therefore, was probably the first college student of forest insects in the United States. Webb collected forest insects in western Idaho during 1900 and 1901 and in studying them corresponded with Hopkins.
In 1901 the Chief of the Bureau of Forestry of the Phillipines requested Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the Bureau of Forestry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to get him a forest entomologist. Pinchot passed this request on to Hopkins who replied there were none, but that he could train one if given time. This suggestion was followed and Webb, the only known student, was appointed a field assistant in the Bureau of Forestry in the fall of 1901 and sent to Hopkins at the University of West Virginia to train for the Phillipine position.
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The appointment of Webb by USDA to work on insects under Hopkins stirred Howard, Chief of the Division of Entomology, into action. He started to work toward the establishment of an Office of Forest Insect Investigations in the Division.
In the meantime the Black Hills Beetle had started its destructive work in the yellow pine forests of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming.
In May 1902 Webb was appointed an Assistant Forest Expert in the Bureau of Forestry and sent to the Black Hills to investigate the trouble under the direction of Hopkins, who was to be appointed July 1 Chief of the new Office of Forest Insect Investigations in the Division of Entomology.
Since Webb was expected to take the Phillipine position, an assitant to take his place was needed. I [H.E. Burke] had collected some with Webb in 1900 and 1901 and was recommended by him for this appointment. Being already in the Division of Entomology on a three-month appointment to work on the codling moth at Boise, Idaho, I was appointed October 1, 1902, as a Special Field Agent of the Divsion to investigate the damage to forests and forest trees by insects and was sent to the Black Hills to receive training from Webb. On November 1, 1902, I was appointed an Assistant Forest Expert in the Bureau of Forestry and ordered to Washington to work on forest insects under Hopkins, following Webb in by about a week.
The Office of Forest Insect Investigations therefore completed its first six months with Dr. A.D. Hopkins, an appointee of the Division of Entomology, in charge, with J.L. Webb and myself, appointees of the Bureau of Forestry, as assistants. During the spring of 1903, W.F. Fiske, Assistant State Entomologist of Georgia was appointed a special field agent in the Divsion of Entomology and assigned to work on forest insects under Dr. Hopkins. All expenses for the work were paid by the Bureau of Forestry.
This organization contined until July 1, 1904, when the Division of Entomology became a Bureau and Webb and I were transferred from the Bureau of Forestry to the Bureau of Entomology. Webb did, however, spend the field season of 1903 in the Phillipines as an appointee of the Phillipine Bureau of Science.
It was during the winter of 1902-03 that Dr. Hopkins suggested to Webb and myself that each of us specialize on some important family of forest insects as Hopkins had specialized on the Scolytidae. Webb selected the Cerambycidae and I the Burprestidae. Dr. Hopkins also submitted a plan for dividing the United States into for major forest areas for forest insect field work with a man specializing on the insect problems in each area. The areas suggested were the Eastern, the Southern, the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific Coast. I selected the Pacific Coast mainly because I was from that section and already familiar with some of the conditions."
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Discussion leaders at the Northwest Forest Pest Action Council (NWFPAC) meeting on October 29, 1956. Portland, Oregon.
Photo by: R.B. Pope
Date: October 29, 1956
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: PS-1486
More about the NWFPAC from a 1992 oral interview conducted by Harold K. Steen (HKS) with William D. Hagenstein (WDH) (from pages 75-77):
HKS: Characterize the Northwest Forest Pest Action Council.
WDH: The Northwest Forest Pest Action Council was organized by Hoss Andrews who was the regional forester in Portland in 1948, and he invited a handful of us. He invited the two state foresters. He invited Kolbe of the Western Pine Association, myself, and a representative for three or four of the major land owning companies like Weyerhaeuser and Crown-Zellerbach, which were the two biggest ones in our region, to get together to decide how we could handle the problem that was being posed in eastern Oregon principally then by the spruce budworm. There was a very significant infestation of spruce budworm, ... We got together in the library in Portland. It wasn't called the Northwest Forest Pest Action Council, we called it the Spruce Budworm Action Committee; that was its original name. We immediately got to work deciding how we were going to find out the extent of the infestation and the experiment station and the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine's Division of Forest Insect Investigations. It was not part of the Forest Service yet. The Forest Insect Division furnished airplanes and spotters. Several of the companies and the states of Oregon and Washington did the same thing. We went out and completely mapped the infestation area. Then we decided what we were going to do about it. DDT was available. We started a big spraying program. ...
Here was one of the most cooperative things that ever occurred. There was no animosity by anybody on the regulation issue or any of these controversial things. Here our job was, we wanted to save the resource, and we got together like I never saw any group ever do in the history of the country. The Northwest Forest Pest Action Council history is a subject that would be a damn good book for somebody. Full interview is available here: www.foresthistory.org/Research/Hagenstein_Forestrys_Advoc...
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For geospatial data collected during annual aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/forest-grasslandhealth/insects-...
For related historic program documentation see:
archive.org/details/AerialForestInsectAndDiseaseDetection...
Johnson, J. 2016. Aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys in Oregon and Washington 1947-2016: The survey. Gen. Tech. Rep. R6-FHP-GTR-0302. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. 280 p.
For additional historic forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
N3N-3 airplane used in the Pacific Northwest for first aerial detection surveys and photo flights in 1947. Pilot John F. Wear (back) and Hessig. Lower wing blocking forward and down visuals made surveying from this aircraft challenging. Portland, Oregon.
Photo by: Getzendaner
Date: December 23, 1948
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: PS-786B
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For geospatial data collected during annual aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/forest-grasslandhealth/insects-...
For related historic program documentation see:
archive.org/details/AerialForestInsectAndDiseaseDetection...
Johnson, J. 2016. Aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys in Oregon and Washington 1947-2016: The survey. Gen. Tech. Rep. R6-FHP-GTR-0302. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. 280 p.
For additional historic forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
A young Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) at Long's Ranch, Oregon.
Note: This is probably Long's Ranch near Fort Rock, Oregon. For more see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reub_Long
Photo by: F.P. Keen
Date: 1915
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: BUR-1921
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Pine Beetle Control Project parade float sponsored by: USDA Forest Service, U.S. Indian Service, USDA Bureau of Entomology, Oregon State Board of Forestry, and the Klamath Forest Protective Association.
"One pine tree in ten killed by beetles in last ten years."
"Timber losses for the last ten years in this Region: $40,000 from forest fires; $4,000,000 from pine beetles."
"Why grow trees for beetle fodder?"
"Beetle losses are largely preventable."
"Follow Klamath's example; control this timber pest. It pays."
Southern Oregon Northern California (SONC) pine beetle control project. Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Photo by: F.P. Keen
Date: October 12, 1923
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Bureau of Entomology, F. Paul Keen Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: FPK-50
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For related historical information see:
www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/21476
Wickman, Boyd E. 2005. Harry E. Burke and John M. Miller, pioneers in Western forest entomology. General Technical Report. PNW-GTR-638. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 163 p.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Monitoring wildlife for DDT effects. OR/WA/ID Douglas-fir tussock moth control project.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: 1974
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: FHP slide collection; Regional Office, Portland, Oregon.
For more information about this project see:
Graham, D.A.; J. Mounts; D. Almas. 1975. 1974 Cooperative Douglas-fir tussock moth control project: Oregon, Washington, Idaho. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region. 74 p.
Available through the Forest Health Protection Historical Digital Collection, here: nfsl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17053coll1/id...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Entomological Rangers J.D. Riggs (left) and J.J. Sullivan.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: c.1912
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: H.E. Burke Collection digital files; Regional Office; Portland, Oregon.
This photo and the following excerpt are from:
H.E. Burke. 1946. My Recollections of the First Years in Forest Entomology. Berkeley, California. 37 p. www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/recollections-on-forest...
"J.D. Riggs was camp foreman for the Forest Service on the Northeastern Oregon Bark Beetle Control Project and with the Forest Insect Station 5 at Yreka, Placerville, and Ashland from July 1, 1911, until about August 1, 1916, when he resigned to go into mining.
J.J. Sullivan was a woodsman for the Baker Forest Protective Association in the 1910 fall control work for the Northeastern Oregon Bark Beetle Control Project, and a cruiser in the 1911 spring control work. He served as Agent and later as Entomological Ranger with Forest Insect Station at Yreka and Placerville from July 1, 1911, to Sepetember 1915, and then transferred to the Northern Rocky Mountain Station. Sullivan left the Bureau of Entomology in June 1916 to go into lumbering."
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Scott planting tanoak seedlings. Field trial to examine genetic variation in resistance to Sudden Oak Death (Phytophthora ramorum) in tanoak, Douglas-fir, coast redwood, and Port-Orford-cedar. Established near Brookings, Oregon.
More about the project from Richard Sniezko:
A field trial was established in southern Oregon, near Brookings, in March 2019 to examine genetic variation in resistance to Phytophthora ramorum (pathogen causing Sudden Oak Death) in tanoak, as well as susceptibility of conifers Douglas-fir, coast redwood, and Port-Orford-cedar. The trial was a joint effort between USFS (Dorena Genetic Resource Center, FHP), OSU, and ODF.
900 tanoak (Notholithocarpus densiflorus) seedling ‘families’ from 55 Oregon parent trees (and bulked lots) were planted in a field trial to assess genetic resistance to Phytophthora ramorum (pathogen causing sudden oak death, SOD), and to correlate with results of seedling inoculation testing done at Oregon State University. Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), and Port-Orford-cedar (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana) seedlings were also planted to test conifer susceptibility. Contact Richard Sniezko (richard.sniezko@usda.gov), Megan Lewien (mlewien@fs.fed.us), and Jared LeBoldus (Jared.LeBoldus@oregonstate.edu), for more information.
Photo by: Richard Sniezko
Date: March 19, 2019
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center.
Source: Richard Sniezko collection; Cottage Grove, Oregon.
For more about the Dorena Genetic Resource Center see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Bureau of Entomology, Forest Insect Investigations, Washington Office staff.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: c.1906
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: Boyd Wickman Collection; Regional Office; Portland, Oregon.
Andy Eglitis brought Boyd's slides from Bend to Portland February 13, 2019.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Hemlock trees killed by western hemlock looper. Mail Creek. Clatsop County, Oregon.
Photo by: F.P. Keen
Date: June 14, 1945
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: PS-657
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For more information about this project see:
archive.org/details/su1945ddt00unit
Craighead, F.C. and R.C. Brown. 1945. Summary of 1945 DDT investigations for control of forest insects with special reference to aerial applications. USDA Agricultural Research Administration, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Division of Forest Insect Investigations. 15 p.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Forest entomologist Jesse Lee Webb with owl. Washington, D.C.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: 1904
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: H.E. Burke Collection digital files; Regional Office; Portland, Oregon.
This photo and the following excerpt are from:
H.E. Burke. 1946. My Recollections of the First Years in Forest Entomology. Berkeley, California. 37 p. www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/recollections-on-forest...
"J.L. Webb was the first assistant selected by Dr. A.D. Hopkins to work on western bark beetle problems. He was born near Bloomington, Illinois, April 9, 1878, and was educated in Iowa, Washington, and West Virginia; taking his B.S. degree from Washington State College in 1900 and his Masters degree from the University of West Virginia in 1902. Webb started the study of forest insects in 1900 while on a trip to the pine forests near Moscow, Idaho. Both the western pine beetle and the mountain pine beetle were studied.
About October 1, 1901, Webb was appointed a student assistant in the Bureau of Forestry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and assigned to work under Dr. A.D. Hopkins at the University of West Virginia at Morgantown. This training was to fit Webb for the position of Forest Entomologist of the Phillipines. Webb spent the winter at Morgantown working on forest insects.
About May 1, 1902, Webb was promoted to Assistant Forest Expert and sent to the Black Hills of South Dakota to work on the Black Hills beetle. This probably was the first experimental work carried on by a United States government official. Various kinds of trap trees were tried and studies were made on the life history, parasites, predators and associates."
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
These amazing fish are Arctic Grayling collected in our fish trap during the 2013 monitoring season.
The sampling and monitoring methods utilized by Montana Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office employ a full-channel seasonal weir to temporarily detain migrating fish allowing us to assess fish population trends.
This trapping effort is located on Red Rock Creek, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Montana, and is a collaborative effort among Refuges and Fish and Aquatic Conservation; sister divisions of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Photo: Jim Mogen/USFWS
Tree peeled to show galleries of western pine beetle. Photo also shows the method of tagging and numbering trees for control work. Southern Oregon Northern California (SONC) beetle control project.
Photo by: F.P. Keen
Date: May 16, 1923
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: BUR-3230
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For related historical information see:
www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/21476
Wickman, Boyd E. 2005. Harry E. Burke and John M. Miller, pioneers in Western forest entomology. General Technical Report. PNW-GTR-638. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 163 p.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Helicopter and Central Aircraft tank truck on loading area along Kinzua Road. Western spruce budworm control project. Kinzua area, Oregon.
Photo by: Olson
Date: June 30, 1948
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: Olson-136x
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For further information about historical western spruce budworm activity and control projects see:
Dolph, Robert E. 1980. Budworm activity in Oregon and Washington, 1947-1979. R6-FIDM-033-1980. Portland, OR: US Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, Forest Insect and Disease Management. 54 p.
For related historical program information see:
archive.org/details/AerialForestInsectAndDiseaseDetection...
Johnson, J. 2016. Aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys in Oregon and Washington 1947-2016: The survey. Gen. Tech. Rep. R6-FHP-GTR-0302. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. 280 p.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Harold Weaver in a ponderosa pine pole stand. Pine butterfly outbreak 1893-1896 and a burn in 1904. Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: May 1959
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: Boyd E. Wickman Collection; Regional Office; Portland, Oregon.
Andy Eglitis brought Boyd's slides from Bend to Portland February 13, 2019.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Map showing boundaries of Tillamook Burn and areas salvaged through 1937.
Photo by: Ransford
Date: 1938
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: PS-388
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Cooking pan heating milk for tea atop wood-fired stove in camp ger (yurt) at airfield near Erdenet, Selenge Province. The pilot and spray crew slept in this ger while they worked in the area. A hired cook prepared food for them.
Photo and caption provided by forest entomologist Karen Ripley. In June, 2017, she made a rapid assessment of Mongolia’s forest health surveys, site prioritization, and pest control activities that protect its forests from native defoliating insects. This evaluation was sponsored by the United Nations’ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation program.
Photo by: Karen Ripley
Date: June 10, 2017
For more about Forest Health Protection's International Activities see: www.fs.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsinternet/cs/main/!ut/p/z1/04...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Aerial view of Seaside and Tillamook Head. Hemlock looper control project. Clatsop County, Oregon.
Photo by: Robert L. Furniss
Date: July 7, 1945
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: PS-686
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For more information about this project see:
archive.org/details/su1945ddt00unit
Craighead, F.C. and R.C. Brown. 1945. Summary of 1945 DDT investigations for control of forest insects with special reference to aerial applications. USDA Agricultural Research Administration, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Division of Forest Insect Investigations. 15 p.
For related historical program information see:
archive.org/details/AerialForestInsectAndDiseaseDetection...
Johnson, J. 2016. Aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys in Oregon and Washington 1947-2016: The survey. Gen. Tech. Rep. R6-FHP-GTR-0302. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. 280 p.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Balsam woolly adelgid damage. High elevation five-needle pines (High Five) symposium field trip. Montana Snowbowl ski area, Missoula, Montana.
Photo by: Kristen Chadwick
Date: June 30, 2010
Photo credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection, Westside Forest Insect and Disease Service Center.
Source: Kristen Chadwick collection; Sandy, Oregon.
"High elevation five-needle pines are rapidly declining throughout North America. The six species, whitebark (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.), limber (P. flexilis James), southwestern white (P. strobiformis Engelm.), foxtail (P. balfouriana Grev. & Balf.), Great Basin bristlecone (P. longaeva D.K. Bailey), and Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (P. aristata Engelm.), have limited timber value but are of great ecological and symbolic importance to both the U.S. and Canadian West. A comprehensive International symposium, called the High Five symposium, was held June 28-30, 2010, in Missoula, Montana to: (1) bring together scientists, managers, and concerned citizens to exchange information on the ecology, threats, and management of these pines; (2) learn about the threats and current status of pine populations; (3) describe efforts to mitigate threats through restoration techniques and action plans; and, (4) build a foundation for the synthesis of research efforts and management approaches." Abstract is from: Keane, Robert E.; Tomback, Diana F.; Murray, Michael P.; and Smith, Cyndi M., eds. 2011. The future of high-elevation, five-needle white pines in Western North America: Proceedings of the High Five Symposium. 28-30, June 2010; Missoula, MT. Proceedings RMRS-P-63. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 376 p. located here: www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_p063.pdf
"The third day of the conference entailed a field trip to the Montana Snowbowl ski area. Despite forecasts for rain, sunny skies prevailed. Four school busses carried about 100 participants to drop-off points within the ski area, located approximately 10 miles northwest of Missoula. Participants were divided into eight “color-coded” groups, and then led by designated guides for 20-minute visits at each of eight stations scattered across the mountainside. At each station, one or more speakers made a presentation in their area of expertise, and then answered questions or directed discussion. At Station 1, Bob Keane gave an overview of his whitebark pine restoration project at the ski area. Station 2 featured Holly Kearns and John Schwandt presenting the latest findings on blister rust-pine interactions, including resistance, host species, and spread. At Station 3, Mary Frances Mahavolich, David Foushee, John Errecart, and Mike Mueller described the whitebark pine genetic restoration program in the Inland Northwest. At Station 4, Shawn McKinney presented the latest findings on pine/nutcracker/squirrel interactions, and associated research and management implications under changing climatic conditions. At Station 5, Dan Reinhart discussed operational and philosophical challenges to restoring whitebark pine ecosystems in wilderness, backcountry, and roadless areas. At Station 6, Glenda Scott described operational whitebark pine regeneration strategies, from cone collection to regeneration success. At Station 7, Jane Kapler Smith directed an interactive discussion of educational opportunities in high-elevation pine ecosystems. Finally, at Station 8 John Waverek discussed prescribed burning as a tool for restoring whitebark pine ecosystems. The field trip was organized and orchestrated by Bryan Donner, and returned to the UM campus at exactly 5:00 pm." Excerpted from Nutcracker Notes, Issue 19, Fall/Winter located here:
whitebarkfound.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Nutcracker-...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
A 2002 Port Orford cedar planting; 90%+ survival rate. Some deer browse and elk rubbing present. Moore Mill site, located just north of the town of Port Orford, Oregon.
Photo by: Richard Sniezko
Date: May 22, 2007
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center.
Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
BLM and USFS personnel involved with the WolfPine sugar pine maintenance and restoration project. Wolf Pine Timber Sale, Little River Adaptive Management Area, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon.
Front Row, L-R: Dayne Barron (BLM-Medford District Manager, signed MOU between BLM & USFS to make WolfPine possible); Amy Nathanson (USFS-ecologist, Umpqua National Forest); Lisa Winn (USFS, Dorena Genetic Resource Center Director); Leslie Elliott (USFS-Umpqua National Forest -silviculturist); Kristen Chadwick (FHP - Westside Service Center); Ellen Goheen (FHP-SWOR FIDSC); Don Goheen (FHP-SWOR FIDSC, retired, with walking stick); Bill Schaupp (FHP-SWOR FIDSC); Marty Main (private forestry consultant, southwest Oregon).
Second Row, L-R: Unidentified; Unidentified; Joe Linn (Cottage Grove District Ranger, Umpqua National Forest); Josh Bronson (FHP-SWOR FIDSC); Terry Fairbanks (BLM-Medford, silviculture); Christine Buhl (ODF-entomologist); Holly Kearns (FHP-Westside Service Center).
Third Row, L-R: Mike Harris (Umpqua National Forest, silviculture); Craig Kintop (BLM-Roseburg, silviculture…with tin hard hat on); Bill Reading (Umpqua National Forest, silviculture); Anne Boeder; Unidentified; Unidentified; Alan Bowman (beard); Richard Helliwell (Umpqua National Forest, botany); Will Thomas (Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest, forester).
Photo and caption courtesy of: Bill Schaupp
Date: March 6, 2015
Photo credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection, Southwest Oregon Forest Insect and Disease Service Center.
Source: Bill Schaupp collection. Central Point, Oregon.
About this project (2001):
Title: Sugar Pine Maintenance and Restoration
Purpose: Improve growing and establishment conditions for sugar pine. Understand what treatments are needed to restore and maintain sugar pine and minimize disease and insect impacts to this species.
Methods: Develop and test methods of thinning around remaining live sugar pine trees (variable radius) to restore and maintain sugar pine populations. Plant sugar pine within clearings in young Douglas-fir plantations to determine if the species can be reestablished under these conditions.
Monitor: Sugar pine long-term survival, vigor, and regeneration under different treatments.
Status: Initial Treatments (harvest, planting) completed in 2000. Follow-up work (pruning young trees, clearing vegetation around remaining live sugar pine trees) to be completed this year. Post-treatment data collection is ongoing.
Location: Wolf Pine Timber Sale (FS and BLM) on the Little River Adaptive management Area.
Key Contact: Ellen Goheen, SW Oregon Forest Insect & Disease Technical Center; Barbara Fontaine, Umpqua National Forest; Anne Boeder, Roseburg BLM
From: reo.gov/ama/research/lilriv.htm
Bill Schaupp's 2018 notes about the WolfPine project:
"It is also worth emphasizing that the BLM and the USFS cooperated on this project with treatments on lands managed by both.
Here’s the WolfPine project timeline as best I can determine:
1997--- find and select sugar pine to be focus trees with assistance of Wolf Creek Job Corps Center
1997 & 1998 --- pretreatment data collected and establishment report written
1998 - 2000--- treatments implemented (i.e. timber sale and brush cutting)
2001--- piles burned
2001--- post-treatment data collected, evaluation period begins
2006--- some data collected for 5 year results
2010--- more intensive data collected for 9 year results and report written with some 5- and mostly 9-year results
2017 - 2018--- intensive data collected for 16 year results"
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Natural size detail photo of mistletoe on lodgepole pine. Wallowa National Forest, Oregon.
Photo by: Jardine
Date: 1909
Image Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
Series: Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History, ca. 1897 - ca. 1980
Record Group 95: Records of the Forest Service, 1870 - 2008
National Archives Identifier: 7108537
Local Identifier: 95-GP-5017-75885
Forest Service Image: 75885
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Balsam woolly adelgid damage in subalpine fir. High elevation five-needle pines (High Five) symposium field trip. Montana Snowbowl ski area, Missoula, Montana.
Photo by: Kristen Chadwick
Date: June 30, 2010
Photo credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection, Westside Forest Insect and Disease Service Center.
Source: Kristen Chadwick collection; Sandy, Oregon.
"High elevation five-needle pines are rapidly declining throughout North America. The six species, whitebark (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.), limber (P. flexilis James), southwestern white (P. strobiformis Engelm.), foxtail (P. balfouriana Grev. & Balf.), Great Basin bristlecone (P. longaeva D.K. Bailey), and Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (P. aristata Engelm.), have limited timber value but are of great ecological and symbolic importance to both the U.S. and Canadian West. A comprehensive International symposium, called the High Five symposium, was held June 28-30, 2010, in Missoula, Montana to: (1) bring together scientists, managers, and concerned citizens to exchange information on the ecology, threats, and management of these pines; (2) learn about the threats and current status of pine populations; (3) describe efforts to mitigate threats through restoration techniques and action plans; and, (4) build a foundation for the synthesis of research efforts and management approaches." Abstract is from: Keane, Robert E.; Tomback, Diana F.; Murray, Michael P.; and Smith, Cyndi M., eds. 2011. The future of high-elevation, five-needle white pines in Western North America: Proceedings of the High Five Symposium. 28-30, June 2010; Missoula, MT. Proceedings RMRS-P-63. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 376 p. located here: www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_p063.pdf
"The third day of the conference entailed a field trip to the Montana Snowbowl ski area. Despite forecasts for rain, sunny skies prevailed. Four school busses carried about 100 participants to drop-off points within the ski area, located approximately 10 miles northwest of Missoula. Participants were divided into eight “color-coded” groups, and then led by designated guides for 20-minute visits at each of eight stations scattered across the mountainside. At each station, one or more speakers made a presentation in their area of expertise, and then answered questions or directed discussion. At Station 1, Bob Keane gave an overview of his whitebark pine restoration project at the ski area. Station 2 featured Holly Kearns and John Schwandt presenting the latest findings on blister rust-pine interactions, including resistance, host species, and spread. At Station 3, Mary Frances Mahavolich, David Foushee, John Errecart, and Mike Mueller described the whitebark pine genetic restoration program in the Inland Northwest. At Station 4, Shawn McKinney presented the latest findings on pine/nutcracker/squirrel interactions, and associated research and management implications under changing climatic conditions. At Station 5, Dan Reinhart discussed operational and philosophical challenges to restoring whitebark pine ecosystems in wilderness, backcountry, and roadless areas. At Station 6, Glenda Scott described operational whitebark pine regeneration strategies, from cone collection to regeneration success. At Station 7, Jane Kapler Smith directed an interactive discussion of educational opportunities in high-elevation pine ecosystems. Finally, at Station 8 John Waverek discussed prescribed burning as a tool for restoring whitebark pine ecosystems. The field trip was organized and orchestrated by Bryan Donner, and returned to the UM campus at exactly 5:00 pm." Excerpted from Nutcracker Notes, Issue 19, Fall/Winter located here:
whitebarkfound.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Nutcracker-...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Left-to-Right: J.L. Webb, Assistant Forest Expert; Lee, stenographer and clerk; and H.E. Burke, Assistant Forest Expert. In the first office occupied by forest entomologists in the old insectary, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Washington, D.C.
Lee was the first stenographer and clerk employed by Hopkins. He worked for one winter only and was replaced by E.C. Wood.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: December 1902
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: H.E. Burke Collection digital files; Regional Office; Portland, Oregon.
This photo and the caption are from:
H.E. Burke. 1946. My Recollections of the First Years in Forest Entomology. Berkeley, California. 37 p. www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/recollections-on-forest...
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Lenzites sepiaria sporophores on fire-killed Douglas-fir limb.
Photo by: J.W. Kimmey and J.R. Roaf
Date: March 1935
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: PS-300A
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Balsam woolly adelgid in subalpine fir. High elevation five-needle pines (High Five) symposium field trip. Montana Snowbowl ski area, Missoula, Montana.
Photo by: Kristen Chadwick
Date: June 30, 2010
Photo credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection, Westside Forest Insect and Disease Service Center.
Source: Kristen Chadwick collection; Sandy, Oregon.
"High elevation five-needle pines are rapidly declining throughout North America. The six species, whitebark (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.), limber (P. flexilis James), southwestern white (P. strobiformis Engelm.), foxtail (P. balfouriana Grev. & Balf.), Great Basin bristlecone (P. longaeva D.K. Bailey), and Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (P. aristata Engelm.), have limited timber value but are of great ecological and symbolic importance to both the U.S. and Canadian West. A comprehensive International symposium, called the High Five symposium, was held June 28-30, 2010, in Missoula, Montana to: (1) bring together scientists, managers, and concerned citizens to exchange information on the ecology, threats, and management of these pines; (2) learn about the threats and current status of pine populations; (3) describe efforts to mitigate threats through restoration techniques and action plans; and, (4) build a foundation for the synthesis of research efforts and management approaches." Abstract is from: Keane, Robert E.; Tomback, Diana F.; Murray, Michael P.; and Smith, Cyndi M., eds. 2011. The future of high-elevation, five-needle white pines in Western North America: Proceedings of the High Five Symposium. 28-30, June 2010; Missoula, MT. Proceedings RMRS-P-63. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 376 p. located here: www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_p063.pdf
"The third day of the conference entailed a field trip to the Montana Snowbowl ski area. Despite forecasts for rain, sunny skies prevailed. Four school busses carried about 100 participants to drop-off points within the ski area, located approximately 10 miles northwest of Missoula. Participants were divided into eight “color-coded” groups, and then led by designated guides for 20-minute visits at each of eight stations scattered across the mountainside. At each station, one or more speakers made a presentation in their area of expertise, and then answered questions or directed discussion. At Station 1, Bob Keane gave an overview of his whitebark pine restoration project at the ski area. Station 2 featured Holly Kearns and John Schwandt presenting the latest findings on blister rust-pine interactions, including resistance, host species, and spread. At Station 3, Mary Frances Mahavolich, David Foushee, John Errecart, and Mike Mueller described the whitebark pine genetic restoration program in the Inland Northwest. At Station 4, Shawn McKinney presented the latest findings on pine/nutcracker/squirrel interactions, and associated research and management implications under changing climatic conditions. At Station 5, Dan Reinhart discussed operational and philosophical challenges to restoring whitebark pine ecosystems in wilderness, backcountry, and roadless areas. At Station 6, Glenda Scott described operational whitebark pine regeneration strategies, from cone collection to regeneration success. At Station 7, Jane Kapler Smith directed an interactive discussion of educational opportunities in high-elevation pine ecosystems. Finally, at Station 8 John Waverek discussed prescribed burning as a tool for restoring whitebark pine ecosystems. The field trip was organized and orchestrated by Bryan Donner, and returned to the UM campus at exactly 5:00 pm." Excerpted from Nutcracker Notes, Issue 19, Fall/Winter located here:
whitebarkfound.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Nutcracker-...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Bruce Hostetler. Western spruce budworm control project lab. Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon.
Photo by and courtesy of: William M. Ciesla
Date: 1988
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: William M. Ciesla collection; Fort Collins, Colorado.
Bill Ciesla summarized this project in his 2005 Founder's Award address (wfiwc.org/awards/founders-award/speech/ciesla):
"Portland, OR - 1988-90
Within days after our return from Chile, I learned that I had been selected to fill the vacancy of Director of Pest Management in R-6, a position that had been vacant for nearly two years. A major outbreak of western spruce budworm was underway in the Region, with several million acres of forests suffering defoliation. Plans were already underway for a large suppression project and I arrived just in time for Regional Forester Jim Torrence to announce that, based on the Environmental Analysis that had been completed, he would authorize treatment of up to 1 million areas providing they met the pre-spray insect population densities that had been established.
That project took up virtually all of my time for my first six months in R-6. We successfully treated 600,000 acres, all with undiluted formulations of Bacillus thuringiensis. For the first time, we adapted the Incident Command System (ICS), an organizational structure for managing large wildfire suppression projects, to insect suppression. We established five Incident Command units and an Area Command in Portland. The project involved deployment of over 70 helicopters, a fleet of turbine powered fixed-wing aircraft and over 700 people. I believe it still stands as the largest single western spruce budworm suppression project that involved exclusive use of a biological insecticide. The project was a great success and all of the units treated met the post treatment criteria of < 1 budworm larva/15 inch branch. We conducted smaller western spruce budworm suppression projects in 1989 and 1990."
For information about earlier western spruce budworm activity and control projects in Oregon and Washington see:
Dolph, Robert E. 1980. Budworm activity in Oregon and Washington, 1947-1979. R6-FIDM-033-1980. Portland, OR: US Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, Forest Insect and Disease Management. 54 p.
For additional R6 pesticide application project documentation see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/forest-grasslandhealth/insects-...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Rigging on spar pole. Tillamook Burn, Oregon.
Photo by: Robert L. Furniss
Date: September 26, 1939
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Bureau of Entomology, Robert L. Furniss Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: F-592
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Investigating pandora moth (Coloradia pandora) defoliation of a yellow pine stand north of Kirk, Oregon. Klamath Indian Reservation.
Photo by: J.M. Miller
Date: September 1921
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: BUR-2450
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For related historical information see:
www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/21476
Wickman, Boyd E. 2005. Harry E. Burke and John M. Miller, pioneers in Western forest entomology. General Technical Report. PNW-GTR-638. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 163 p.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
The Washington Office, 1904-1906. In 1903 Dr. Hopkins moved his office from the Insectary to these quarters in a private building at 904 B Street, Southwest. In this office practically all of the work was done on the Dendroctonus and Pissodes bulletins. This room was occupied until 1908. Left to right in this picture are W.F. Fiske, Special Agent for the Southern States; E.C. Wood, clerk and stenographer; Dr. A.D. Hopkins; J.L. Webb, Special Agent for the Rocky Mountain States; J.F. Strauss, Artist; and H.E. Burke, Special Agent for the Pacific States. Washington, D.C.
This photo and the caption are from:
H.E. Burke. 1946. My Recollections of the First Years in Forest Entomology. Berkeley, California. 37 p. www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/recollections-on-forest...
Photo by: Unknown
Date: c.1904
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: H.E. Burke Collection digital files; Regional Office; Portland, Oregon.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Entomological Ranger W.E. Glendinning observes spruce logs on a logging train in the Oregon Coast Range.
Photo by: J.M. Miller
Date: 1919
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: PS-6027A
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For related historical information see:
www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/21476
Wickman, Boyd E. 2005. Harry E. Burke and John M. Miller, pioneers in Western forest entomology. General Technical Report. PNW-GTR-638. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 163 p.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
L-R: Roy Magelssen, Connie Mehmel, Angel Saavedra, Jim Hadfield, and Darci Dickinson. Jim Hadfield retirement luncheon. Wenatchee Service Center. Forestry Sciences Lab, Wenatchee, Washington.
From Jim's 2011 Western International Forest Disease Work Conference (WIFDWC) Keynote Address:
"In 1971 I accepted a transfer and promotion to the Pacific Northwest Region in Portland, Oregon. Dave Johnson had arrived about one month before me. Dave Graham was the staff director. Walt Thies joined the staff in 1973. Over the years many forest pathologists joined this staff, including Don and Ellen Goheen, Greg Filip, Craig Schmitt, Paul Hessburg, Bob Harvey, Boris Tkacz, Sally Campbell, Susan Frankel, Alan Kanaskie and my apologies to others I have overlooked. We provided forest pathology advice to all National Forests and other federal and tribal lands in Washington and Oregon from Portland. I took a bit of a break from forest pathology from 1988 to 1993 when I more-or-less became a killer of western spruce budworms and Douglas-fir tussock moths. In 1994 I resumed being a forest pathologist when I moved to Wenatchee, WA, where I am thoroughly entrenched.
...
My USFS forest pathology career spans 45 years, all in Forest Health Protection. I predate NEPA."
From pages 11 and 12 of the 2011 WIFDWC proceedings.
For the rest of Jim's speech and all WIFDWC proceedings, see: www.wifdwc.org/past-proceedings1
Photo by: Unknown
Date: August 31, 2012
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection, Wenatchee Service Center.
Source: Forest Health Protection; Regional Office digital file collection.
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Interstate Logging Company donkey. Tillamook Burn, Oregon.
Photo by: Robert L. Furniss
Date: 1937
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Bureau of Entomology, Robert L. Furniss Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: F-175
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
USDA Bureau of Entomology, Forest Insect Investigations. Field Station quarters and personnel. Ashland, Oregon.
Note: The Ashland Field Station was located here from 1913-1916.
Photo by: J.E. Patterson
Date: July 1914
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: BUR-2215
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For related historical information see:
www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/21476
Wickman, Boyd E. 2005. Harry E. Burke and John M. Miller, pioneers in Western forest entomology. General Technical Report. PNW-GTR-638. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 163 p.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Grumman Ag Cat spray plane, N8365. Fixed wing aircraft were used for application on areas of flatter topography. Western spruce budworm control project. Washington.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: 1976
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: Region 6, Forest Health Protection slide collection; Regional Office, Portland, Oregon.
The following abstract is from the project report: 1976 Western spruce budworm control project Washington - Oregon. Forest Service, USDA. Pacific Northwest Region. www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev2_026568.pdf
Abstract:
A total of 365,702 acres infested with western spruce budworm was treated in Oregon and Washington during 1976. Of this total, 7,663 were treated with Sevin 4 Oil at the rate of 1 pound (AI) in 1/2 gallon of formulated material per acre, and 358,039 acres were treated with ultra low volume Malathion at the rate of 13 ounces of technical grade material per acre.
A total of 23 helicopters and 2 fixed-wing aircraft was used in applying the insecticide. In addition, 13 helicopters and 1 fixed-wing aircraft were used for observation and general administration of the project. A total of 1,558 flying hours occurred during the project with no accidents or injuries.
Environmental monitoring of fish, aquatic organisms, birds and bees revealed no adverse effects of the treatment with the exception of a temporary reduction in aquatic organisms in streams which were directly treated with insecticide. Where one-swath buffer zones were left along streams, no significant differences in aquatic insect drift was noted.
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Portion of the forest untouched by storm of January 29, 1921. Olympic National Forest, Washington.
Photo by: U.S. Air Service
Date: March 1921
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
RG# 95-GP.Records of the Forest Service. General Subject Files.
USDA Forest Service Negative Number: 159431
NARA image: 95-GP-1308-Box0307_023_001_AC
For more information about this event see: www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd493595.pdf and www.climate.washington.edu/stormking/January1921.html
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Lepidoptera.
Tischeriidae.
Arbutus madrona leaf miner.
Note:
This is the taxonomy recorded in the documentation from 1916.
Charley Eiseman provided this update:
Hello-- I just saw the photo with this title, and wanted to make a correction: the leafminer is Marmara arbutiella (Gracillariidae), not Tischeriidae. Also the Latin name of madrone is Arbutus menziesii.
Photo by: J.E. Patterson
Date: 1916
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: BUR-1944
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Entomological Ranger W.E. Glendinning checking felled spruce infested with spruce beetle in the Oregon Coast Range.
Photo by: J.M. Miller
Date: 1919
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: PS-6027B
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For related historical information see:
www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/21476
Wickman, Boyd E. 2005. Harry E. Burke and John M. Miller, pioneers in Western forest entomology. General Technical Report. PNW-GTR-638. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 163 p.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Amphibious PBY (N61DFF) spraying DDT. Skowl Arm DDT application pilot project for control of black-headed budworm. Prince of Wales Island, Southeast Alaska.
For a NOAA photo of the project see: www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/fish5520.htm
For more about this project see:
Karr, R.W., Pontious, M., Crosby, D., and B. Roettgering. 1963. Skowl Arm DDT Pilot Project, June 1963. USDA Forest Service. Region 10. 46 p.
Abstract: This report is an evaluation of the operational and biological phases of the Skowl Arm DDT pilot project. The study proved the operational feasibility of spraying the forests of southeast Alaska from a floating base using both the amphibious PBY plane and a helicopter. The spray coverage obtained with the helicopter was superior to that of the PBY.
Abstract is from BIBLIOGRAPHY, ALASKA REGION,
FOREST HEALTH PROTECTION, 1919-2001. TECHNICAL REPORT R10-TP-107 BIBLIOGRAPHY. MARCH, 2002. By Ken Zogas and Edward H. Holsten, located here: www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5277712.pdf
The following is an excerpt from the 1963 Report on Game Studies, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Game Division, Juneau, Alaska:
"OBJECTIVES
To determine the influence of 1/4 pound DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane) per acre as used in aerial sprays to control black-headed budworm (Acleris variana) on birds
and mammals in Southeast Alaska.
TECHNIQUES
In June 1963, the U. S. Forest Service, Region 10, con-ducted a pilot project to determine the effectiveness of a 1/4 pound DDT per acre spray application for controlling black-headed budworm populations. Spraying was done on June 21 from a PBY aircraft flying approximately 500 feet above the ground. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game were invited to initiate studies to determine the effects of this spraying on fish and wildlife populations. The spray site was in the vicinity of Skowl Arm on the east side of Prince of Wales Island, Southeast Alaska, about 35 miles northwest of Ketchikan.
Three drainages were sprayed however, all bird and mammal investigations were confined to Cabin Creek drainage. Neither funds nor time allowed for extensive investigations of all species which might be influenced. Therefore, efforts were concentrated on the Sitka black-tailed deer, the most abundant big game species in Southeast Alaska, which is usually present in forests where subsequent spray programs may be undertaken."
For more, see: www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/home/library/pdfs/wildlife/res...
Photo by: Unknown
Date: June 1963
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: R6 Division of Timber Management, Insect and Disease Control Branch Collection; Regional Office, Portland, Oregon.
Image: ID-454
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Stearman spray planes being loaded with "goop" and fuel. Western spruce budworm control project. Big Summit airstrip. Ochoco control unit, Oregon.
Photo by: R.B. Pope
Date: July 1955
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: PS-1420
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
Note:
"Forced Landing Made by Plane
A spray plane, one of the fleet being used in the spruce budworm work on the Ochoco National Forest, made a forced landing on Highway 26 about 15 miles east of Prineville early this week, it was learned today. Neither plane nor pilot suffered injury, and the plane, a Steerman. was towed to a nearby ranch for repairs. The pilot, Dusty Mobeik(SP?) told fellow pilots that mechanism in the oil lines leading to the engine had broken while he was spraying over his section of the forest. He attempted to reach the Prineville airport but finally was forced to land on the highway. The spruce budworm work being done in that area of the forest will be concluded this week, in all probability. Nineteen Steerman planes and one B-247 have taken part in the area in the vicinity ot Big Summit prairie, and during the program seven planes have been damaged though no pilot injuries have been reported. Work started in June. Dick Baxter is the private contractor who has been in charge of the work there, and Jim Ralph is the forester supervisor for the U.S national forest service. The area under contract by Baxter involved 260,000 acres."
From: The Bend Bulletin. July 20, 1955. Page 5. www.newspapers.com/newspage/97369584/
For further information about historical western spruce budworm activity and control projects see:
Dolph, Robert E. 1980. Budworm activity in Oregon and Washington, 1947-1979. R6-FIDM-033-1980. Portland, OR: US Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, Forest Insect and Disease Management. 54 p.
For related historical program information see:
archive.org/details/AerialForestInsectAndDiseaseDetection...
Johnson, J. 2016. Aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys in Oregon and Washington 1947-2016: The survey. Gen. Tech. Rep. R6-FHP-GTR-0302. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. 280 p.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Tree in flames. Burning standing tree is one method of insect control. Targhee National Forest, Idaho.
Photo by: D.A. Arrivee
Date: 1930
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
RG# 95-GP Records of the Forest Service General Subject Files USDA Forest Service Negative: 250996
NARA Image: 95-GP-5037-Box0853_030_001_AC
For related historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Large specimen of sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). Jenny Creek, Oregon.
Photo by: J.E. Patterson
Date: July 1916
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: BUR-1987
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For additional historic forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth