Forest Health and Scientific Publications

CONDITION REPORTS & GENERAL TOPICS

• Forest Insect & Disease Conditions in the Southwestern Region
  • 2023 (PDF, 11.0 mb)
  • 2022 (PDF, 10.3 mb)
  • 2021 (PDF, 12.2 mb)
  • 2020 (PDF, 9.6 mb)
  • 2019 (PDF, 9.0 mb)
  • 2018 (PDF, 10.2 mb)
  • 2017 (PDF, 6.7 mb)
  • 2016 (PDF, 9.4 mb)
  • 2015 (PDF, 5.5 mb)
  • 2014 (PDF, 4.5 mb)
  • 2013 (PDF, 2.8 mb)
  • 2012 (PDF, 3.0 mb)
  • 2011 (PDF, 1.5 mb)
  • 2010 (PDF, 1.5 mb)
  • 2009 (PDF, 1.6 mb)
  • 2008 (PDF, 2.0 mb)
  • 2007 (PDF, 737 kb)
  • 2006 (PDF, 1.8 mb)
  • 2005 (PDF, 1.1 mb)
  • 2004 (PDF, 1.3 mb)
  • 2003 (PDF, 1.0 mb)
  • 2002 (PDF, 1.1 mb)
  • 2001 (PDF, 168 kb)
  • 2000 (PDF, 665 kb)
  • 1999 (PDF, 152 kb)
  • 1998 (PDF, 745 kb)
• Forest Health Monitoring in the Interior West: A Baseline Summary of Forest Issues, 1996-1991, RMRS-GTR-75, May 2001 (PDF, 2.5 mb)
• Strategy for Long-Term Management of Exotic Trees in Riparian Areas for New Mexico’s Five River Systems, 2005-2014 (Draft version, March 2004)
  Produced by the New Mexico Interagency Weed Action Group (IWAG), an ad-hoc group representing numerous state and federal resource management agencies involved in weed management. [External Link]
• Best Predictors for Postfire Mortality of Ponderosa Pine Trees in the Intermountain West, 2006, Forest Science 52:718-228 (PDF, 955 kb)

ENTOMOLOGY

• Arizona Fivespined Ips, Ips lecontei Swaine, in the Southwestern United States, Forest Insect & Disease Leaflet 116, December 2008 (PDF, 529 kb)
• Bark Beetle-Caused Mortality in a Drought-Affected Ponderosa Pine Landscape in Arizona, USA, 2009, Forest Ecology and Management 275(4):1353-1362
• Bark Beetle Responses to Vegetation Management Treatments, 2009, in General Technical Report PNW-GTR-784: 25-38
• Development of Post-Fire Crown Damage Mortality Thresholds in Ponderosa Pine, 2010, International Journal of Wildland Fire 19:583-588.
• Effects of Mechanical Fuel Reduction Treatments on the Activity of Bark Beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) Infesting Ponderosa Pine, 2006, Forest Ecology 230:55-68
• Engraver Beetles in Southwestern Pines (5/2003) (PDF, 73kb)
• Evaluation of Funnel Traps for Characterizing the Bark Beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) Communities in Ponderosa Pine Forests of North-Central Arizona, 2008, Journal of Economic Entomology 101(4):1253-1265
• Evaluation of Insecticides for Protecting Arizona Cypress (Cupressus arizonica) and One-Seed Juniper (Juniperus monosperma) from Attack by Phloeosinus Bark Beetles, 2007, Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 33(3)162-167 (PDF, 6.9 mb)
• Evaluation of Insecticides for Protecting Southwestern Ponderosa Pines from Attack by Engraver Beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), 2006, Journal of Economic Entomology 99:393-400
• Factors influencing pine engraver (Ips pini Say) colonization of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex. Laws.) slash in Northern Arizona, 2008, Forest Ecology and Management 255:3541-3548
• Influence of Elevation on Bark Beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) Community Structure and Flight Periodicity in Pondersa Pine Forests of Arizona, 2008, Environmental Entolomology 37(1):94-109
• Influence of Temperature on Spring Flight Initiation for Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Bark Bettles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scholytinae), 2008, Environmental Entomology 37(1):57-69
• Integrated Pest Management Guide: Arizona Five-Spined Ips and Pine Engraver (7/1991) (PDF, 2.3 mb)
• Lack of Genetic Differentiation in Aggressive and Secondary Bark Beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) from Arizona, 2008, Environmental Entomology 37(3):817-824
• Managing Slash to Minimize Colonization of Residual Trees by Ips and Other Bark Beetle Species Following Thinning in Southwestern Ponderosa Pine, The University of Arizona Cooperative Extension
• Mountain pine beetle voltinism and life history characteristics across latitudinal and elevational gradients in the western United States. 2014. Forest Science 60(3):434-449.
• Prescribed Fire Effects on Bark Beetle Activity and Tree Mortality in Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Forests, 2008, Forest Ecology and Management 255:119-128
• Retrospective Assessment of Partial Cutting to Reduce Spruce Beetle-Caused Mortality in the Southern Rocky Mountains, 2010, Western Journal of Applied Forestry 25:81-87
• Synergistic Effects of alpha-pinene and exo-brevicomin on Pine Bark Beetles and Associated Insects in Arizona, 2008, Journal of Applied Entomology 132:387-397
• Oystershell scale: An emerging invasive threat to aspenin the southwestern US, 2021
• Oystershell Scale: An Invasive Threat to Aspen Conservation, WAA Brief #8: May 2022

PATHOLOGY

• Aspen Decline on the Coconino National Forest, 2008, In Proceedings of the 55th Western International Forest Disease Work Conference, 2007 October 15-19 (PDF, 1.4 mb)
• Comparison of Dwarf Mistletoe Behavior and Stand Development in Treated and Untreated Areas: 10-Year Monitoring on Jarista Mesa, R3-03-02, June 2003 (PDF, 262 kb)
• Decay and Discoloration of Aspen, Forest Insect & Disease Leaflet 149, May 2009 (PDF, 473 kb)
• Development of the White Pine Blister Rust Outbreak in New Mexico, R3-04-01, February 2004 (PDF, 449 kb)
• Dwarf Mistletoes and their Management in the Southwest, R3-FH-10-01, May 2010 (PDF, 2.3 mb)
• Dwarf Mistletoe Management and Forest Health in the Southwest, April 2000 (PDF, 481 kb)
• Effects of Three Prescribed Fires on Dwarf Mistletoe Infection in Southwestern Ponderosa Pine, R3-01-02, Revised March 2005 (PDF, 717 kb)
• Heterobasidion annosum and H. parviporum in the Southern Rocky Mountains and Adjoining States, 2010, Plant Disease 94:115-118
• Molecular characterization of Fusarium species associated with damping-off of conifer seedlings in tree nurseries, 2020, In Proceedings of the 66th Western International Forest Disease Work Conference, 2019 June 3-7 
• Molecular identification and characterization of root disease pathogens in the western USA, 2020, In Proceedings of the 66th Western International Forest Disease Work Conference, 2019 June 3-7
• Populus tremuloides Mortality Near the Southwestern Edge of its Range, 2012, Forest Ecology and Management 282:196-207
• Survival and Sanitation of Dwarf Mistletoe-Infected Ponderosa Pine Following Prescribed Underburning, 2008, Western Journal of Applied Forestry 23(4):216-22
• White Pines, Blister Rust, and Management in the Southwest, R3-FH-09-01, March 2009 (PDF, 2.8 mb)
• Whitetail Dwarf Mistletoe Control Project: An Uneven-Age Management Case Study, R3-FH-11-01, September 2011 (PDF, 216 kb)

POSTERS

• Bark Beetle Activity Associated With Tornado-Damaged Ponderosa Pine in Northern Arizona, Poster Presentation from Forest Health Monitoring Workgroup Meeting, 2012 (PDF, 2 mb)