State And Private Forestry

Forest Health Protection
      Intermountain and Northern Regions

Mission:  

To facilitate stewardship, protection, and management of forested ecosystems by promoting forest health to our federal, state, and private resource customers in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Nevada, western Wyoming, and  North Dakota.       

Strategy   Focuses Forest Health Protection resources on the highest priority work. (Click here to locate and read the Strategic Plan   460KB PDF)

Publications
Published documents relating to Forest Health topics. 

• 2008 Montana Condition Report  2.0MB PDF
• Drift Resulting from Ground-based Sprays of Carbaryl to Protect from Bark Beetle Attack
• Co-occurrence of the invasive banded and European elm bark beetles
• Evaluating the Effects of Forestry Herbicides on Fish Development Using Rapid Phenotypic Screens (N.American Journal of Fisheries Management)
• Tree Protection using Carbaryl Insecticide for Western Bark Beetles 3.0MB PDF
• Biological Evaluation in Paradise Mountains, Utah  200 K PDF
• Douglas-Fir Dwarf Mistletoe Spread, Intensification, and Tree Growth Impact      400 K PDF
• Mountain Pine Beetle Impacts Five-Needle Pines 1.8MB PDF
• Biological Evaluation of the Moquith Mountain 800kb PDF

  Map with Plot locations

• Whitebark Pine in Peril
  A Case for Restoration
• Hazard tree information and weblinks

  Hazard trees in Recreation sites

  How trees survive