Resource Practices Branch Pest Management Report Number 15 Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data Main entry under title: Summary of forest health conditions in British Columbia. - - 2001 - Annual Vols. for 2020- issued in Pest management report series. Also issued on the Internet. ISSN 1715-0167 = Summary of forest health conditions in British Columbia. 1. Forest health - British Columbia - Evaluation - Periodicals. 2. Trees - Diseases and pests - British Columbia - Periodicals. 3. Forest surveys - British Columbia - Periodicals. I. British Columbia. Forest Practices Branch. II. Series: Pest management report. SB764.C3S95 634.9’6’09711 C2005-960057-8 Front cover photo by Joan Westfall, spruce bark beetle mortality in Prince George TSA 2020 SUMMARY OF FOREST HEALTH CONDITIONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Joan Westfall1, Tim Ebata2 and Babita Bains3 Contact Information 1 Forest Health Forester, EntoPath Management Ltd., 1-175 Holloway Drive, Tobiano, BC, V1S 0B2. Email:
[email protected] 2 Forest Health Officer, Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, PO Box 9513 Stn Prov Govt, Victoria, BC, V8W 9C2. Email:
[email protected] 3 Provincial Forest Entomologist, Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, 200 - 10470 152nd Street, Surrey, BC V3R 0Y3. Email:
[email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS Summary i Introduction 1 Methods 3 Aerial Overview Survey 2020 7 Covid-19 complications 7 Survey results 9 Damaging Agents of Pines 13 Mountain pine beetle,