Epidemic populations of the western spruce budworm persist in the Northern Region. Aerial surveys made in August 1976 showed a decline in the acreage of aerially visible defoliation. In northern Idaho, the defoliated area dropped from 831,487 acres in 1975 to 655,711 acres in 1976, down 21 percent. Surveys in...
An attempt was made to predict western spruce budworm defoliation using
egg counts from plots in the Douglas-fir type east of the Continental
Divide in Montana, the Douglas-fir type west of the Continental Divide
in Montana, and the mixed grand fir Douglas-fir type of northern Idaho.
The parameters used in...
A practical demonstration of a method for
rating forest stands as to their probability of
defoliation by the Douglas-fir tussock moth
using aerial photographs and available cruise
data was done in the Palouse Ranger District,
Clearwater National Forest, Idaho.
A nonlinear computer program, RISK, was used to
identify significant independent...
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...
A needle miner, Coleotechnites sp., defoliated approximately 3,100 acres of ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa Laws. on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, during 1978. Three other small areas in the Missoula Valley were infested also. Overwintering populations of larvae are low; thus, light defoliation is expected in 1979 in presently infested...
Epidemic levels of the pine butterfly, Neophasia menapia (Felder and
Felder) have been evident in ponderosa pine stands in the Bitter Root
Valley since 1969. Evaluations of this infestation were initiated in
1970 to assess overwintering egg populations at 20 locations within
the infestation (Ciesla et al. 1971). Defoliation was...