Site, Stand, and Host Characteristics of Southern Pine Beetle Infestations

Jack E. Coster and Janet L. Searcy - editors

Southern Pine Beetle Handbook U.S.D.A. Combined Forest Pest Research and Development Program Technical Bulletin No. 1612

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

Contents

• Introduction
• Study Methods
  • Data collection
  • Soil site characteristics
  • Stand characteristics
  • Tree characteristics
  • Plot selection criteria
  • Basis for comparison
• Gulf Coastal Plain
  • Eastern Texas - R.R. Hicks, Jr., K.G. Watterston, J.E. Coster, and J.E. Howard
  • Southern Arkansas - T.T. Ku, J.M. Sweeney, and V.B. Shelburne
  • Central Louisiana - P.L. Lorio and R.A. Sommers
  • Southern Mississippi, Louisiana, and Eastern Texas - R.J. Kushmaul and M.D. Cain
  • Association of annosus root rot with southern pine beetle attacks - J.M. Skelly, S.A. Alexander, and R.S. Webb
• Piedmont
  • Georgia - R.P. Belanger
  • North Carolina - T.E. Maki, D.W. Hazel, and J.R. Hall
• Georgia Mountains - R.P. Belanger and G.E. Hatchell
• Characteristics of Southern Pine Beetle Infestations Southwide - R.L. Porterfield and C.E. Rowell
  • Coastal Plain
  • Piedmont
  • Mountains
• Summary and Conclusions
  • Coastal Plain
  • Piedmont
  • Mountains
• Literature Cited
• Appendix

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