Silviculture Can Reduce Losses from the Southern Pine Beetle

Southern Pine Beetle Handbook

Roger P. Belanger - Principal Silviculturist, USDA Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Gainesville, FL., and
Barry F. Malac - Manager, Woodlands Research Department, Union Camp Corporation, Savannah, GA.

United States Department of Agriculture, Combined Forest Pest Research and Development Program, Southern Pine Beetle Handbook, Agriculture Handbook No. 576 - Issued December 1980

In 1974 the U.S. Department of Agriculture initiated the Combined Forest Pest Research and Development Program, an inter-agency effort that concentrated on the Douglas-fir tussock moth in the West, on the southern pine beetle in the South, and on the gypsy moth in the Northeast. The work reported in this publication was funded in part by the Program. This handbook is one in a series on the southern pine beetle.

Contents

• Introduction
• Identifying Susceptible Stands
• The Southern Coastal Plain
• The Piedmont
• The Southern Appalachians
• Prevention Silviculture
• Promote Individual Tree Resistance
• Promote Stand Resistance
• Protect the Site
• Minimize Disease and Competition Problems
• Selected References
• Acknowledgments

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