1. 2011 Season Highlights James Kruse USDA Forest Service
Forest Health Protection
Fairbanks Unit
Roger Burnside
Alaska Dept. of Natural Resources
Division of Forestry

3. Mortality agents (e.g. Ips engraver)

4. Green Alder Sawfly
Cooperative project between UAF and USFS complete – Wipfli lab

5. Willow Leafblotch Miner
Cooperative project between UAF and USFS complete – Wagner lab

6. Geometrid Moth Defoliation

7. Other Defoliation – Hardwoods & Shrubs

8. Firewood Survey Species Family Notes on distribution Ips pini
Scolytidae
Previously found in AK
Scolytus monticolae Swaine
Not previously found in AK; known from AB and BC
Aulonium longum
Colydiidae
Not previously found in AK, known from BC
Tomnoscheila chlorodia (Mannerheim)
Trogossitidae
Not previously found in AK; known from other parts of PNW and as far north as S BC and NW Territories
Corticeus praetermissus (Fall)
Tenebrionidae
Previously known from AK and much of North America

9. Cooperative Early Detection Efforts
Alaska Pest Risk Assessment Committee
Exotic scolytid (bark beetle) EDRR National Program
Cooperative U.S. Forest Service grants (Early Detection focus)

10. Ips perturbatus slash management study – interior AK

12. Questions?

13. national forest
native
other federal
state & private
unknown
Total Of Sum Of ACRES
AGENT
1,722
842
9,090
11,654
Alder Canker
11,571
27,016
59,984
22,635
121,206
Alder defoliation
11,761
49,766
45,943
22,881
130,351
Alder Dieback
182 73
1,560 12
1,827
Alder leafroller
279
1,329
2,933
4,541
Aspen defoliation 17
43,690
23,903
71,614
139,223
Aspen Leaf Miner
498
387
18,489
15,100
34,474
Betula nana defoliation
1,432
Birch aphid
2,667
5,004
14,725
18,111
40,507
Birch defoliation
304
Birch Leaf Miner
1,407
200 24
1,631
Black-headed budworm
24,183
269
2,352
26,804
Cedar decline
1407
1,802
730
467
4,407
Conifer defoliation
1,331
13,564
2,270
3,011
20,177
Cottonwood defoliation
3,202
Cottonwood Leafroller
127
283
165
147
722
Flooding/high-water damage
799
2,958
1,691 1
5,449
Hardwood defoliation
5,240
234
754
6,227
Hemlock Dieback
8,323
1,021 44
1,772
11,161
Hemlock sawfly
197
146
214
557
IPS and SPB
2,827
2,024
1,222
6,073
Ips engraver beetle
1,270 32
107
268
1,677
Landslide/Avalanche 4
111
Larch sawfly 39 53
1,629
1,848
Large aspen tortrix
115 6 22
216
Porcupine damage
189
6,093
27,913
14,659
48,853
Spruce beetle
308
411
866
Spruce broom rust
278
460
Spruce defoliation
1,661
952 74
1,437
4,123
Spruce needle aphid 57 9 66
Spruce needle rust 3
Sub Alpine Fir Beetle
509
5,661
5,249
2,964
14,382
Willow defoliation
380
306
814
Willow Dieback
14,715
13,588
21,176
49,479
Willow Leafblotch Miner
2,817
122 28
531
3,498
Windthrow/Blowdown
3,165
4,604
2,585
10,354
Winter damage