An evaluation was made in 21 seed production areas and 1 seed orchard in Region 1 to identify the primary insect pests and to assess amount of injury caused. Cones from Douglas-fir, grand fir, western larch, lodgepole pine, ponderosa pine, and western white pine were collected periodically and examined. The...
Three hundred fifty Leach pine cells used to grow containerized conifer seedlings at the USDA Forest Service Nursery in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, were sampled for Fusarium and Trichoderma colonization. Cells were either sampled prior to or after cleaning. Cleaning reduced Fusarium colonization from 86 percent of the cells to about...
Diseased conifer nursery stock, including Douglas-fir, western larch, and Engelmann spruce, was selected from the U.S. Forest Service nursery at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to determine (1) the most probable cause of disease, (2) the fate of outplanted diseased stock, and (3) the height growth of outplanted diseased seedlings. Fusarium spp....
Mortality from various causes was recorded in a Douglas-fir tussock moth, Orgyia pseudotsugata McD., outbreak southeast of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in 1974. Observations began June 27 when about 50 percent of the larvae were second instars and continued until pupation. Within a 35-day period, there was a 93 percent average...
Three stands along Benton Creek within the Priest River Experimental Forest, Idaho, were surveyed for diseases using previously established timber inventory plots and sample trees. These surveys provided information to aid in formation of silvicultural prescriptions by CEFES (Continuing Education in Forest Ecology and Silviculture) students. Diseases were quantified at...
Methods used to establish permanent plots in precommercially thinned and unthinned stands to monitor root disease development are described. Plots were established in 22 Armillaria-infested stands in northern Idaho and western Montana. The proportion of trees dead and infected was significantly higher for planted than for natural regeneration at the...
Investigations were conducted from 1998-
2000 at the Potlatch Corporation's
Cherrylane Seed Orchard near Lewiston,
Idaho to evaluate presence and extent of
potentially pathogenic fungi on roots of
diseased stock and within the soil in current
and proposed plantation sites. The most
common group of pathogens encountered
was Fusarium spp.;...
Investigations of containerized western white pine, western larch, and Douglas-fir seedlings at the Western Forest Systems Nursery in Lewiston, Idaho, revealed that many seedlings were colonized with Fusarium oxysporum although they lacked severe disease symptoms. White pine seedlings were also infected with Pythium spp., probably as a result of sowing...