This file was created by scanning the printed publication. Text errors identified by the software have been corrected; however, some errors may remain. Proceedings: North American Forest Insect Work Conference Denver, Colorado March 25-28,1991 Douglas C. Alien and Lawrence P. Abrahamson, Technical Editors State University College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse, New York Sponsored by: USDA Forest Service Research USDA Forest Service Forest Pest Management Forestry Canada USDA Cooperative State Research Service Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Society of American Foresters, Forest Pest Management Working Group NOVO Laboratories Published by: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station Portland, Oregon General Technical Report PNW-GTR-294 February 1992 Abstract Alien, Douglas C.; Abrahamson, Lawrence P., tech. eds. 1992. Proceedings: North American forest insect work conference; 1991 March 25-28; Denver, CO. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-294. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 182 p. A proceedings of a conference held to stimulate interaction among people working in areas of forest protection and silviculture and on issues of national and international concern relative to forest insect and disease management, education, and research. National issues addressed were forest productivity, stewardship, biological diversity, and new perspectives and how these issues affect environmentally sound management of forest pests. Keywords: Forest pests, forest insects, forest diseases, entomology, entomology (research), entomology (education), pathology, pest management. TABLE OF CONTENTS NORTH AMERICAN FOREST INSECT WORK CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE. ............................................... xviii PREFACE. ............................................................... xix I. KEYNOTE ADDRESSES. ................................................... 1 THE FUTURE AND FORESTRY EDUCATION Ross S. Whaley ........................................................... 2 FIRST AMERICAN BARK BEETLE WORK CONFERENCE Norman E. Johnson ........................................................ 5 MEETING FORESTRY RESEARCH CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY Jerry A. Sesco ............................................................ 9 KEYNOTE ADDRESS ON FOREST PEST MANAGEMENT RESEARCH IN CANADA William M. Cheliak (no paper submitted) THE FUTURE OF FOREST PEST MANAGEMENT James C. Space . ...................................................... 14 THE 1990s: YEARS OF CHANGE AND CHALLENGE IN FOREST PEST MANAGEMENT Robert F. DeBoo ......................................................... 17 FOREST PEST EDUCATION: FACING THE REALITIES OF THE 1990s J. Rod Carrow ........................................................... 22 II. WORKSHOP SUMMARIES. ............................................... 27 BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF FOREST INSECTS Moderator: C. W. Berisford ................................................. 28 CLASSICAL BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF NATIVE PESTS: WHAT ARE THE PROSPECTS? N.J. Mills ............................................................ 28 THE ROLE OF PREDATORS AND PARASITOIDS IN GYPSY MOTH POPULATION DYNAMICS J.S. Elkinton . ............................................ 29 BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF THE NANTUCKET PINE TIP MOTH WITH AN ICHNEUMONID PARASITOID R.F. Luck and G.T. Scriven ...............................................' 29 NATURAL ENEMIES OF DOUGLAS-FIR TUSSOCK MOTH AND WESTERN SPRUCE BUDWORM: MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS Torolf R. Torgersen ..................................................... 29 iii THE ROLE OF INTRODUCED PARASITES IN BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF THE LARCH CASEBEARER Roger B. Ryan ......................................................... 29 EVIDENCE FOR MICROBIAL PRODUCTION OF KAIROMONES FOR BARK BEETLE PARASITOIDS D.L. Dahlsten ......................................................... 30 ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF KAIROMONES UTILIZED BY SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE PARASITOIDS Goran Birgersson, Mark J. Dalusky, Karl E. Espelie, and C. Wayne Berisford ............................................................. 30 EAG EVALUATIONS OF POTENTIAL KAIROMONES FOR A SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE PARASITOID Scott M. Salom ........................................................ 30 FIELD EVALUATION OF CANDIDATE CHEMICALS AS KAIROMONES FOR BARK BEETLE PARASITOIDS C.W. Berisford, G.O. Birgersson, M.J. Dalusky and K.E. Espelie ...................... 31 SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE NATURAL ENEMIES IN RELATION TO INFESTATION DEVELOPMENT Fred M. Stephen ....................................... \. .............. 31 WHAT IS COMPLEX DYNAMICS AND CHAOS? Moderator: Alan A. Berryman ............................................... 32 A NEW LIFE-SYSTEM APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF POPULATION DYNAMICS Alexei A. Sharov ....................................................... 32 THE DYNAMICS OF SPRUCE BUDWORM POPULATIONS: STOCHASTIC PROCESSES, MIGRATION AND THE BEHAVIOR OF OUTBREAKS Jacques Regniere ....................................................... 33 WHY ARE GYPSY MOTH NUMERICAL DYNAMICS SO IRREGULAR IN NORTH AMERICA? Michael E. Montgomery .................................................. 35 NEW FINDINGS IN GYPSY MOTH POULATION DYNAMICS J.S. Elkinton .......................................................... 35 QUALITY CONTROL AND RELIABILITY OF PEST MONITORING INFORMATION Moderator: William Burkman ............................................... 37 QUALITY ASSURANCE PRINCIPLES: AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR MANAGERS AND RESEARCHERS ASSESSING REGIONAL PEST MANAGEMENT CONCERNS Robert A. Mickler and Kathleen Dwire ....................................... 40 DATABASE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE/QUALITY CONTROL: FIDSINFOBASE, A CASE STUDY Stephen D'Eon ........................................................ 40 iv THE USE OF QUALITY ASSURANCE/QUALITY CONTROL TECHNIQUES TO DEVELOP LABORATORY AND FIELD PROCEDURES FOR FOREST HEALTH - MONITORING Bruce L. Nash, Donald D. Davis, and John M. Skelly ............................. 40 ORNAMENTAL AND SHADE TREE PROBLEMS WORKSHOP Moderator: E. Alan Cameron ................................................ 42 ELM LEAF BEETLE BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA D. L. Dahlsten ......................................................... 46 PROBLEMS OF INTRODUCED PESTS T. D. Paine ............................................................ 46 EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND CONTINUING EDUCATION Moderators: Nancy J. Campbell and John A. Witter ............................... 48 BARRIERS TO INNOVATION IN FOREST INSECT RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT Moderator: Donald L. Dahlsten .............................................. 50 BARRIERS TO INNOVATION IN FOREST INSECT RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT: VIEWS OF A UNIVERSITY RESEARCHER E. Alan Cameron ....................................................... 51 BARRIERS TO INNOVATION IN FOREST INSECT RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT: VIEWPOINT FROM A FORESTRY SCHOOL Jack E. Coster. ........................................................ 52 BARRIERS TO INNOVATION IN FOREST INSECT RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT: THE VIEW OF A RESEARCHER IN AN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE N. J. Mills ............................................................ 52 AN ENTOMOLOGY DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATOR'S PERSPECTIVE ON BARRIERS TO INNOVATION IN FOREST INSECT RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT T. L. Payne ............................................................ 52 BARRIERS TO INNOVATION IN FOREST INSECT RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT: THE VIEW OF A U.S. FOREST SERVICE RESEARCHER AND PEST MANAGER Katharine A. Sheehan ................................................... 53 BARRIERS TO INNOVATION IN FORESTWSECT RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT:. ,. THE PERSPECTIVE OF A RESEARCH SCIENTIST IN FORESTRY CANADA W. Jan A. Volney ...................................................... 53 ECONOMICS OF FOREST PEST IMPACTS Moderator: J.E. de Steiguer ................................................. 54 TIMBER SUPPLY IMPACTS OF SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE OUTBREAKS Thomas P. Holmes ...................................................... 55 BENEFIT ASSESSMENT OF FOREST PEST MANAGEMENT IN CANADA Marvin Stemeroff ....................................................... 55 v CONSIDERATIONS OF THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF FOREST PEST MANAGEMENT Douglas B. Rideout and Philip N. Omi ....................................... 56 MEDIATING THE DISPUTE OVER SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE MANAGEMENT ON U.S. FOREST SERVICE LANDS IN TEXAS Chuck McKinney ....................................................... 56 ARTHROPOD PEST ISSUES IN AGROFORESTRY Moderator: Mary Ellen Dix ................................................. 57 CONSERVATION FORESTRY ON AGRICULTURAL LAND IN THE CENTRAL GREAT PLAINS: INFLUENCE ON ARTHROPOD DISTRIBUTION Mary Ellen Dix ........................................................ 59 WATER AVAILABILITY AND ITS POTENTIAL IMPACT ON TREE PESTS IN GREAT PLAINS FOREST ECOSYSTEMS William L. Antrobius .................................................... 59 BLACK WALNUT AGROFORESTRY: ROLE OF BLACK WALNUT CURCULIO IN NUT PRODUCTION Marc J. Unit .......................................................... 60 MODELING APPLICATIONS Moderator: Charles W. Dull ................................................. 61 APPLICATIONS OF GIS & FOREST PEST MODELS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Katharine A. Sheehan ................................................... 61 MODELING IN INFORMS-DG Patrice Janiga ........................................................