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Evaluation of a hemlock sawfly outbreak in the northern tip of Idaho, 1985

Creator:

Tunnock, Scott and United States. Forest Service. Northern Region

Abstract:

A rare outbreak of hemlock sawfly, Neodiprion tsugae Middleton, was detected in August in drainages near the Canadian border in Idaho infesting several thousand acres. Some stands of western hemlock and subalpine fir were severely defoliated. Understory Engelmann spruce trees were lightly defoliated. The sawfly overwinters in the egg stage...

Resource Type:

Technical Report
Western spruce budworm defoliation trend relative to weather in the Northern Region, 1969-1979

Creator:

Hard, John S., Tunnock, Scott, Eder, Robert G., and United States. Forest Service. Northern Region. State & Private Forestry

Abstract:

Western spruce budworm defoliated area in the Northern Region has differed significantly across three discrete geographic zones during the past decade. Aerially visible defoliation in northern Idaho increased from 1.7 million acres in 1969 to a high of 2.2 million acres in 1974, and declined to none in 1979. Defoliated...

Resource Type:

Technical Report