United States Department of Major Forest and Agriculture Forest Service Disease Conditions in FS-919 the United States March 2009 2007 United States Department of Major Forest Insect and Agriculture Forest Service Disease Conditions in FS-919 the United States March 2009 2007 Disclaimer

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Cover photo: Island Lake in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana. Courtesy of Jeremy Marshall, Interior West Forest Inventory and Analysis crew leader, Bozeman, MT. Preface

This report represents the 57th annual report prepared by the database useful and user friendly to those interested in this type Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture of the insect of information. We would, therefore, appreciate any feedback and disease conditions of the Nation’s forests. Insect and you have regarding this database and related output reports. disease conditions of local importance are reported in regional and State reports. The information in this report is provided by the Forest Health Protection Program of the Forest Service and its State partners. This year’s forest insect and disease conditions report has This program serves all Federal lands, including the National been redesigned to focus on the 20 major and diseases Forest System and the lands administered by the Department of that annually cause defoliation and mortality in forests of the Defense and the Department of the Interior. Service is also pro- United States. We have provided more detail on these pests, vided to tribal lands. The program provides assistance to private including photographs, charts, tables, and maps. Detailed landowners through the State foresters and other State agencies. descriptions of other insects and diseases similar to that of A key part of the program is detecting and reporting insect and previous years’ reports can be found at the following Web site: disease epidemics. Detection surveys are conducted on a regular http://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/management/index.shtml. As basis by State and Forest Service program specialists. part of this change, we are developing a database and linking it to other data sets so that interested users will have access For additional information about conditions, contact the Forest to more information and will able to do their own analysis, Service office listed on the next page (see the map on page v for especially over time. One of the primary goals is to make the office coverage) or your State forester.

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