Pacific Northwest Research Station

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Unacceptable damage from insects and disease is a particular issue in eastern Oregon and Washington forests and in south-central Alaska. Our team members, located in Anchorage and Juneau, Alaska, and Corvallis, Oregon, focus on studies that design and test options for managing forests to be resistant to outbreak situations as well as mitigating adverse affects during outbreaks. We emphasize methods to detect, monitor, predict, model, and mitigate insects and diseases, emphasizing semiochemical (behavioral chemical) technologies; and we develop understanding and management approaches to enhance or conserve the desirable effects of insects and tree diseases in forest ecosystems.

- Develop silvicultural approaches to regulate effects of diseases and insects on forest structure and composition.

- Determine how to monitor effects of disturbance on abundance, function, and diversity of arthropods.

- Determine the ecological roles of root diseases and develop strategies to encourage their desired effects in ecosystem management.

- Determine roles of heart rot, dwarf mistletoe, and other organisms as disturbance agents in old-growth forests of southeast Alaska.

- Determine the epidemiology of yellow-cedar decline in southeast Alaska and evaluate the salvage value of killed trees.

Research Programs
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This team's 2008 Science Accomplishments