Western Bark Beetle Strategy Results
In Fiscal Year 2011, the Forest Service made significant progress in implementing the strategy.
- Mitigation efforts resulted in a total of 303,929 treated unified acres across the three goals, of which 174,522 acres were core accomplishments.
- The majority of the accomplishments (78%) achieved the resiliency goal.
- In addition, 978 miles of roads and 1,072 miles of trails had hazard trees removed to improve human safety.
- All the activities resulted in 303.3 million board feet of timber sold and 153,801 green tons of biomass produced.
- A total of 22 research tools were developed. These tools are expected to increase the effectiveness of forest management practices towards bark beetle mitigation.