Pacific Southwest Research Station

Education

B.S. Forest Management, 1993, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA

M.S. Forest Entomology, 1996, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA

Ph.D. Forest Entomology, 1999, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Research Interests/Duties

My personal research program has three major emphases: (1) determination of short and long-term implications to forest health of prescribed fire and/or mechanical fuel treatments (silvicultural thinning) used in the large-scale restoration of fire-adapted forest ecosystems, (2) development of chemical, silvicultural and semiochemical-based monitoring and management tactics for Dendroctonus and Ips bark beetles, and (3) determination of the role of semiochemicals in the behavior of bark beetle species of economic importance.

Selected Publications

Fettig, C.J. 2005. The effects of hazardous fuel reduction treatments on the amount of bark beetle-caused tree mortality in the Sierra Nevada, USA. In: Proceedings of the 2004 Society of American Foresters National Convention, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. October 2-6, 2004. Bethesda, MD: Society of American Foresters, 11 pp.

Fettig, C.J. 2005. Bugs in the system: development of tools to minimize ponderosa pine losses from western pine beetle infestations. In: M.W. Ritchie, D.A. Maguire and A. Youngblood (Eds.), Proceedings of the Symposium on Ponderosa Pine: Issues, Trends and Management. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-198, Albany CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, p. 233-244.

Fettig, C.J., P.J. Shea, and R.R. Borys. 2005. Spatial and temporal distributions of four bark beetle species (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) along two elevational transects in the Sierra Nevada. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 81: 6–19.

Fettig, C.J., S.R. McKelvey, and D.P.W. Huber. 2005. Nonhost angiosperm volatiles and verbenone disrupt response of western pine beetle, Dendroctonus brevicomis (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), to attractant-baited traps. Journal of Economic Entomology 98: 2041–2048.

Fettig, C.J., R.R. Borys, C.P. Dabney, S.R. McKelvey, D.R. Cluck, and S.L. Smith. 2005. Disruption of red turpentine beetle attraction to baited traps by the addition of California fivespined ips pheromone components. The Canadian Entomologist 137: 748–752.

Fettig, C.J. and C.P. Dabney. 2006. Relative and seasonal abundance of Temnochila chlorodia (Mannerheim) (Coleoptera: Trogositidae) collected in western pine beetle pheromone-baited traps in northern California. Journal of Entomological Science 41: 75–83.

Fettig, C.J., C.P. Dabney, S.R. McKelvey, and R.R. Borys. 2006. An assessment of re-randomization methods in bark beetle (Scolytidae) trapping bioassays. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 8: 267–272.

Fettig, C.J., J.D. McMillin, J.A. Anhold, S.M. Hamud, R.R. Borys, C.P. Dabney, and S.J. Seybold. 2006. The effects of mechanical fuel reduction treatments on the activity of bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) infesting ponderosa pine. Forest Ecology and Management 230: 55–68.

Fettig, C.J., T.E. DeGomez, K.E. Gibson, C.P. Dabney, and R.R. Borys. 2006. Effectiveness of permethrin plus-C (Masterline®) and carbaryl (Sevin SL®) for protecting individual, high-value pines from bark beetle attack. Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 32: 247–252.

Fettig, C.J., S.R. McKelvey, C.P. Dabney, and R.R. Borys. 2006. The response of Dendroctonus valens (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) and Temnochila chlorodia (Coleoptera: Trogositidae) to Ips paraconfusus (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) pheromone components and verbenone. The Canadian Entomologist 141–145.

Fettig, C.J., K.K. Allen, R.R. Borys, J. Christopherson, C.P. Dabney, T.A. Eager, K.E. Gibson, E.G. Hebertson, D.F. Long, A.S. Munson, P.J. Shea, S.L. Smith, and M.I. Haverty. 2006. Effectiveness of bifenthrin (Onyx™) and carbaryl (Sevin® SL) for protecting individual, high-value trees from bark beetle attack (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in the western United States. Journal of Economic Entomology 99: 1691–1698.

Fettig, C.J., J.D. McMillin, J.A. Anhold, S.M. Hamud, R.R. Borys, and S.J. Seybold. 2007. The effect of mechanical fuel reduction treatments in the wildland-urban interface on the amount and distribution of bark beetle-caused tree mortality. In: R.F. Powers (Ed.), Restoring Fire-adapted Ecosystems: Proceedings of the 2005 National Silviculture Workshop. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-203, Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, p. 306.

Fettig, C.J., K.D. Klepzig, R.F. Billings, A.S. Munson, T.E. Nebeker, J.F. Negrón, and J.T. Nowak. 2007. The effectiveness of vegetation management practices for prevention and control of bark beetle outbreaks in coniferous forests of the western and southern United States. Forest Ecology and Management 238: 24–53.

Youngblood, A., H. Bigler-Cole, C.J. Fettig, C. Fiedler, E.E. Knapp, J.F. Lehmkuhl, K.W. Outcalt, C.N. Skinner, S.L. Stephens, and T.A. Waldrop. 2007. Making fire and fire surrogate science available: a summary of regional workshops with clients. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-727, Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 59 pp.

Shepherd, W.P., D.P.W. Huber, S.J. Seybold, and C.J. Fettig. 2007. Antennal responses of the western pine beetle, Dendroctonus brevicomis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), to stem volatiles of its primary host, Pinus ponderosa, and nine sympatric nonhost angiosperms and conifers. Chemoecology 17: 209–221.

Fettig, C.J., C.P. Dabney, S.R. McKelvey, and D.P.W. Huber. 2008. Nonhost angiosperm volatiles and verbenone protect individual ponderosa pines from attack by western pine beetle and red turpentine beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae). Western Journal of Applied Forestry 23: 40–45.

Fettig, C.J. 2008. Southern intensive forestry. Journal of Forestry 106: 6.

Fettig, C.J., R.R. Borys, S.R. McKelvey, and C.P. Dabney. 2008. Black’s Mountain Experimental Forest: bark beetle response to differences in forest structure and the application of prescribed fire in interior ponderosa pine. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, in press.

Fettig, C.J., A.S. Munson, S.R. McKelvey, P.B. Bush, and R.R. Borys. 2008. Deposition from ground-based applications of carbaryl to protect individual trees from bark beetle attack. Journal of Environmental Quality, in press.

DeGomez, T., C.J. Fettig, J.D. McMillin, J.A. Anhold, and C. Hayes. 2008. Managing slash to minimize colonization of residual leave trees by Ips and other bark beetle species following thinning in southwestern ponderosa pine. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Bulletin, in press.

Schwilk, D.W., J.E. Keeley, E.E. Knapp, J.D. McIver, J.D. Bailey, C.J. Fettig, C.E. Fielder, R.J. Harrod, J.J. Moghaddas, K.W. Outcalt, C.N. Skinner, S.L. Stephens, T.A. Waldrop, D.A. Yaussey, and A. Youngblood. 2008. The National Fire and Fire Surrogate study: effects of alternative fuel reduction methods on forest structure. Ecological Applications, in press.

Fettig, C.J., S.R. McKelvey, C.P. Dabney, R.R. Borys, and D.P.W. Huber. 2008. Response of Dendroctonus brevicomis to different release rates of nonhost angiosperm volatiles and verbenone in trapping and tree protection studies. Journal of Applied Entomology, in press.