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Historic, Archive Document Do not assume content reflects current scientific knowledge, policies, or practices. aSB762 -U552 meF orest Health Technology- TEAM UPppatTE NTERPRISE BuEeaes BY THE USDA Forest See gods: HEALTH TecuNCLoGy Sepa TEAM - Autumn 1998 Team leverages resources | @ Small projects reap big rewards = Imagine you are a forest manager with a problem. Let’s say you need to do a partial cut in a conifer forest in the South, where feller-bunchers are customarily used for such tasks. But you want to ensure against the spread of annosum root rot, which is present in the stand. You know that Applicator annosum root rot is caused by a fungus, Heterobasidion annosum, for Feller- which colonizes readily on freshly Bunchers cut stumps from spores carried by wind and rain. The best way to control it in partially cut stands is to apply Sporax, a commercial expense and manpower required is daunting. Wouldn’t it be great if powdered formulation of borax, to to accomplish this after there were a way to cut the tree and each freshly cut stump. But the completing the cutting operation apply Sporax to the cut stump in the See Team leverages, page 2 Director Mason brings Inside... perspective, experience MTDC Forest Health Protection Andy Mason, formerly | relationships among Program Publications Supervisory Natural Forest Service and other Resource Manager in cooperators. These Blowdown plus beetles equals possible forest threat: Team to the Supervisor’s office qualities suggest the provide data viz at Colville National focus of his leadership of Forest, replaced Bov the Enterprise Team. Biological Control Program lists projects, accomplishments Eav as director of the M ; £ for FY 1998 Forest Health sagt ct Mas Technology Enterprise fgl ett bs pKa Iverson leads initiatives for Pesticide Team-Fort Collins in agian eGR aie bay Use Reporting, Web pages, Be Ocrohen Te Enterprise Team leaders Year 2000 compliance 8 brings with ee A 7 sana ie in that it spans not only EPA approves reregistration of microbial | unique perspective— Andy Mason, Director of NEON ee products 8 Forest Health Technology experience in the Team assists in study of Vermont that of an end-user ~~ Enterprise Team-Fort Collins, Northern and Pacific and extensive joined the Team in mid- forests Northwest Regions, experience in building October, 1998. See Director, , page 4 “Printed onR ecycled Paper Team leverages, from page 1 same operation? It could be done, feller bunchers and applies a The system uses an applicator but it would take some engineering granular formulation of borax to attachment mounted on the back of expertise which you don’t have on the stump immediately after the a feller-buncher saw head. The your staff. What you need is a tree is severed. Developed by applicator uses compressed air to cadre of engineers on retainer. collaboration between MTDC blow borax powder from a “Yeah, right,” you say. “ Dream on.” engineer Dick Karsky and Southern metering mechanism through a : Ore Research Station plant This scenario is not as impossible as atholouise Michellaratn it sounds. As a matter of fact, a ia ss Ieaderelin BE f Forest Health Protection staff Soar MTDC Forest Health members do have engineers on Protection Program Leader retainer to help develop special equipment. An Enterprise Sporax - Electrical Team saleh iea Control Box partner, jecmpbiclds= 3 een tke ere Missoula ali ahead! Technology Delivery Line and Development Crees tube and nozzle onto the top of a Center (MTDC), (fep ee Pee freshly cut stump. Although the works with Forest au Tr ( treatment adds some time and cost Health Protection ey Pee ae to thinning an area, it has the specialists to FAR. S ie ia potential to reduce mortality of develop and adapt Pi Tee aes tet WE: ba. the remaining trees by up to 7%, technologies —'. pdb . neat he por TT ad the typical mortality rate in with real \ " Ne ’s : sts areas where H. annosum practical . oi a - make root rot is a major value in | improving | Nozzle Location problem. forest The modular system health. And small projects can be as design allows timber harvesters to Harold Thistle, the system was valuable as large ones. The Sporax adapt the applicator to virtually demonstrated at the Department of Applicator for Feller-Bunchers is a any feller-buncher. During timber , ee Energy Savannah River Site harvest, the operator of the feller ye ah sett National Environmental Research buncher cuts the tree, positions the MTDC recently developed a stump Park in August 1998. nozzle of the applicator over the applicator system which attaches to stump, and activates the Sporax application system, which applies Sporax to the stump. Tests in September 1997 and May 1998 on a Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team Update is published each October, January, April, and 29-acre tract showed that stumps July by the USDA Forest Service Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team. It is distributed treated with the system retained free to professionals and others interested in the health of our forests. To submit items or to enough boron to prevent annosum have your name added to the mailing list, call or write Update, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, USDA Forest Service, 3825 East Mulberry, Fort Collins, CO 80524. Phone: 970- root rot. Analysis by the University 498-1500. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of of Georgia Cooperative Extension program information should contact the USDA Office of Communications at 202-720-2791. Service to determine the retention Opinions expressed in Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team Update are those of the writers and do not necessarily express USDA policy. The use of trade, firm, or corporation names in of boron at the Savannah River site this publication is for the information and convenience of the reader. Such use does not showed that where the nozzles constitute an official endorsement or approval by USDA of any product or service to the were properly placed, sufficient exclusion of others that may be suitable. USDA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The USDA Forest Service prohibits discrimination in its programs on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, and marital and familial status. (Not all See Team leverages, page 3 prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Team leverages, from page 2 MTDC Forest Health Protection Program1998 boron remained on the stump even Publications though a rain shower came through Karsky, RJ; Cram, M; Thistle, H. 1998. Thistle, HW; Jasumback, A; Kilroy, W; during the application. A dry powder borax stump Ghent, J; Thomas, S; Eav, B. 1997. The Sporax Application system for applicator for a feller buncher. Harrisonburg spray aircraft ASAE Technical Paper #987023. St. navigation final report. USDA feller-bunchers is just one project Joseph (MI): American Society of Forest Service Technology and developed by MTDC for Forest Agricultural Engineers. Development Report 9734-2846- Health Protection specialists. Teske, ME; Thistle, HW. 1998. Drop MTDC. Missoula MT: Missoula Cooperation between MTDC and Technology & Development size scaling of agricultural spray Regional and field forest health Center. material by dimensional analysis personnel can solve specific (Extended abstract). ILASS Thistle, HW; Teske, ME.; Reardon, R. problems and, by leveraging Americas 11th Annual Conference 1998. Modeling of aerially released resources, provide good value from on Liquid Atomization and Spray sprays. Proceedings of the Twelfth a small project. Systems. 1998 May; Sacramento Annual Symposium on (CA). Sacramento: ILASS Americas. Geographic Information Systems; For more information on the Sporax Teske, ME; Thistle, HW; Barry, JW; 1998 April; Fort Collins, (CO). Fort Applicator for Feller-Bunchers and Collins: Adams/GIS World. Eav, B. 1998. A simulation of boom other Forest Health Protection length effects for drift Thistle, H; Murray, D. 1998. solutions developed by MTDC, minimization. Transactions of the Experimental design: pheromone contact Harold Thistle, Missoula American Society of Agricultural placement tracer test. USDA Forest Technology & Development Center, Engineers. May/June 1998; 545- Service Technology and Fort Missoula, Building No. 1, aye Development Report 9834-2827. Missoula (MT): Missoula Missoula, MT 59801. Phone: 406- Teske, ME; Thistle, HW; Eav, B. 1998. Technology & Development 329-3900; Fax: 406-329-3719; e-mail New ways to predict aerial spray depositions and drift. Journal of Center. (Forest Service) hthistle/wo,mitde; e-mail (outside Forest Service) Forestry. June 1998: 25-29. Thistle, HW; Teske, ME; Reardon, RC. 1998a. Meteorological factors and hthistle/[email protected]. See Teske, ME; Thistle, HW. 1998. Aircraft spray drift: an overview. sidebar this page for a list of 1998 selection for optimized operation. Proceedings of the North ASAE Technical paper #981012. St. publications. (Please contact MTDC Joseph (MI): American Society of American Conference on Pesticide for copies of publications.) Agricultural Engineers. Spray Drift Management. Portland ME: University of Maine Shirley Wilsey Teske, ME; Thistle, HW; Mickle, RE. Cooperative Extension. Autometric Service Company 1998. Detailed model simulations behind fixed wing agricultural Thistle, HW; Jasumback, A; Kilroy, W. O aircraft. ASAE Technical Paper 1998b. Practical applications of #981022. St. Joseph (MI): American GPS technology: differential GPS Society of Agricultural Engineers. spray aircraft guidance. Proceedings of the North Thistle, HW; Skyler, P. 1997. Seventh American Conference on Pesticide report: National spray model and Spray Drift Management. Portland application technology steering ME: University of Maine committee. USDA Forest Service Cooperative Extension. Technology and Development Thistle, HW; Teske, ME. 1998. Real- Report 9734-2843-MTDC. Missoula time, aircraft based estimation of MT: Missoula Technology & Development Center. spray drift: drift algorithms. ASAE Technical Paper #981027. St. Joseph (MI): American Society of Agricultural Engineers. You have a friend in engineering! MTDC is For copies, contact Harold Thistle, Missoula Technology & Development Center, Fort Missoula, Building No. 1, Missoula, MT 59801. Phone: 406-329- your “engineer on 3900; Fax: 406-329-3719; e-mail (Forest Service) hthistle/wo,mtdc; e-mail retainer” for FHP needs. (outside Forest Service) hthistle/[email protected]. Director, from page 1 experience as Staff Officer, District start to focus on the issues of how Ranger, and silviculturist, but also, to manage landscapes long-term, Applying the early in his career, time spent with how to sustain them, and what is concepts of the Colorado State Forest Service. the role of small-diameter timber in collaborative As one who has been in the position these larger landscapes. Another learning to occupied by end-users of Forest significant charge in the second Health Protection (FHP) products phase is adoption of a Enterprise Team and services, he has insight into the “collaborative learning” model projects will be the issues that confront people in the which is to be guided by halimark of Mason’s field and a strong desire to build Washington State University leadership style. more bridges between field offices cooperators Keith Blatner and Matt and the Enterprise Team. Carroll. the Enterprise Team and FHP field His more recent experience The collaborative learning model offices and Regional offices. The suggests the approach he will be introduces some new ideas into Special Technology Development taking to lead the Enterprise Team Forest Service practices of involving Program (STDP), a program for into the 21st century. As one of the the public. It is a strong break from funding field projects, works very leaders of the Creating “creating a plan and sending it out closely with its collaborators Opportunities (CROP) research for public review.” “Collaborative through its steering committee. study on the Colville National learning gets the public and other Forest, he learned the importance of collaborators involved at ground Also, Pest impact models, such as having true collaboration with all zero,” says Mason. Everyone learns the Western Root Disease Model, depend on direct field participation participants and how that produces about the watershed together, in model development for their results for the project and builds long-term success. relationships for the future. “Collaborative Mason recognizes that his National CROP is a study of small-diameter learning gets the Forest and State Forest experience forests created by extensive wildfire public and other and end-user perspective will be in the 1920s and 1930s located on collaborators involved valuable to the Team. However, he the Colville National Forest in at ground zero.” also knows that he has much to northeastern Washington. The learn about the many projects and Colville National Forest, Pacific people in the broad area of Forest Northwest Station, University of before alternatives are proposed. A Health Protection. “I look forward Idaho, Washington State University, wider range of possible solutions very much to meeting people and local industry, and others are and greater “buy-in” on the part of ‘building bridges,’ learning about conducting its first phase. The the various interested parties are current Enterprise Team projects, ongoing study, which began in obvious advantages of the and pursuing new technology 1997, seeks to determine how procedure. The process is also development opportunities that fit various silvicultural treatments and unique in that it frequently begins within our mission and strategic harvesting technologies can be used with a social assessment of people goals.” to create a sustainable forest that is who have an interest in the project healthy, productive, and diverse, in addition to the traditional natural In the short-term, for the next six to while also providing products and twelve months, Mason plans to resource assessment of the area. income to local communities. focus on four tasks: Applying the concepts of The study is now moving into its collaborative learning to Enterprise ¢ Learning about Enterprise Team second stage, from stand-level programs and projects from the Team projects will be the hallmark research to an investigation of team members. Who are our end of Mason’s leadership style. landscape-level questions. Another users? Who are our collaborators and watershed within the forest has Several successful FHP programs cooperators? How does the project been selected where research will are already colalabosrati ons between See Director, page 9 euasAertnmEnninnReem Ass a ne Hee CRASHER Ce aN SRR be aosq o Blowdown plus beetles equals possible forest threat: Team to provide data viz Last October, an early winter storm with winds estimated at 120 miles per hour caused a massive blowdown of trees in the Routt National Forest in Northern Colorado. Approximately 20,000 acres of wilderness and non- wilderness areas were affected. Forest managers are now concerned about long-term effects of the blowdown. An event such as this provides prime habitat for spruce beetle. Entomologists fear that under these conditions spruce beetle populations may build to the point of a serious outbreak, causing the beetles to move from the downed trees to the surrounding healthy forest. UFSEoSRrVDeIsCA!t Rabbit Ears Pass, near Steamboat Springs, Colorado, may be used as a base from which Specialists in Region 2 are visualization of effects of a beetle outbreak can be constructed. interested in using data visualization techniques to depict photography of a number of study and around Steamboat Springs. the possible future condition of sites. These photographs will be They may also be used as part of forest areas near the blowdown used as baseline information from the NEPA (National Environmental sites. The Enterprise Team has been which the visualization will be Policy Act) reporting process. This involved with similar projects on constructed. Similar projects used a project is in the very early stages; the Dixie National Forest in Utah series of action and no-action watch future editions of the Update and the Tongass National Forest in scenarios to depict the progression for more information about how the Alaska. In early October, specialists of beetle damage over time with Enterprise Team’s data from Region 2, the Routt National various possible management visualization capabilities help forest Forest, and the Enterprise Team met options. managers deal with the in Steamboat Springs to visit a consequences of such events. Regional specialists hope the number of sites viewed as visualizations will assist in Jeanine Paschke susceptible to a future beetle educating public groups about the INTECS International outbreak. One objective of the possible effects of spruce beetle in O meeting was to collect ground “If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota in the course of aeons has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.” Aldo Leopold Biological Control Program lists projects, accomplishments for FY 1998 The Enterprise Team Biological than 60 natural enemies have been the impacts of natural enemies on Control Program in Morgantown, recovered to date. Three of the most R. japonica. W.V., sponsors or assists with a promising exotic species are being A new exotic weed project for fiscal variety of projects to combat exotic reared in the laboratory and tested year 1999 is a project to assist in the and native invasive plants and on host ranges in China. In search for natural enemies of kudzu exotic and native arthropod pests addition, one pathogen and one (Puerania lobata) which grows which may upset ecological balance lepidopteran are currently being rampant in the southern U.S. The or threaten native or useful species studied in quarantine facilities in search for natural enemies will be in forests. Although projects are the U.S. carried on in China, native territory undertaken in order to safeguard In Fiscal year 1998 the Cogongrass to kudzu. the health of American forests, the (Imperata work often involves cooperation Four ongoing biological cylindrica) with forestry agencies and control projects Project initiated personnel around the world. All of concentrate on the control a survey for the projects have numerous of exotic arthropods. native natural cooperators. enemies and The Team contributed to The Oracella project was efforts to control the successfully completed in Fiscal horntail Sirex noctilio in year 1998. Done in cooperation Brazil and elsewhere in with foresters in China, it South America. This eee concerned control of the pine Exotic, invasive plants introduced horntail mealybug (Oracella acuta), Mile-A-Minute Weed damages pine plantations introduced into China from the (Polygonum perfoliatum) of high economic (left) and Cogongrass U.S. This mealybug attacks pines significance in several (Imperata cylindrica) that, though exotic to China, are (above) compete with South American countries. of economic significance in native vegetation in the U.S. Enterprise Team programs Two species of seek natural enemies for their biological control. Chinese forestry. The project hymenopteran parasites collected three species of parasites continued to monitor plots and one nematode parasite are of the pine mealybug in U.S. and demonstrating individual and being reared in the laboratory and shipped them to a rearing facility in combinations of presently available field released. China, where they were control strategies. The most The hemlock woolly adelgid successfully reared and field effective control strategies will be (Adelges tsugae) (HWA) is a released. combined with forest management significant threat to native hemlock practices for maintaining desirable Of eight projects continuing into trees in the eastern forests of the plant communities. fiscal year 1999, four involve U.S. The invasive weeds: mile-a-minute The Dyers Woad (Isatis tinctoria) HWA project weed, cogongrass, dyer’s woad, project continued laboratory and involves the and Japanese knotweed. field trials using a native fungus to laboratory reduce populations and spread of rearing in The Mile-A-Minute Weed the weed, a threat to native plants Connecticut (Polygonum perfoliatum) Project in the western U.S. The Japanese and New seeks natural enemies to control an knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum = Jersey of an exotic plant that competes with Hemlock branch infested Raynoutria japonica) project initiated exotic beetle native vegetation in the eastern U.S. with Hemlock Woolly a preliminary survey for native predator, This project surveys for natural Adelgid (Adelges Tsugae) natural enemies of the weed. This Pseudoscymnus enemies in China and the U.S. More survey is also designed to quantify eX Sveriaa Biological Control, from page 6 tsugae, which is native to Japan. Enterprise Team biological control States: a review and More than 90,000 beetles were project is ongoing to study the recommendations, by Frank and released in New Jersey, Connecticut impact on native lepidopterans of Foltz and Virginia in Fiscal year 1998. an exotic polyphagous (over 200 ¢ Biological control of arthropod pests of recorded hosts) tachinid parasite the northeastern and north central The Enterprise Team Biological previously released to control forests in the United States: a review Control Program also contributes to gypsy moth. The study established and recommendations, by Van efforts to control the pink hibiscus that the tachinid Compsilura Driesche, Healy, and Reardon mealybug (Maconellicoccus hirsutus) concinnata is affecting native ¢ Pathogens and microbial control of lepidopterans such North American forest insect pests, by Right: Parasite wasp Anagyurus as spicebush Fuxa, Ayyappath, and Goyer kamali lays eggs in pink hibiscus swallowtail and In addition, the Enterprise Team mealybug larvae; hatchlings feed on mealybug. Prometheus moth. assisted in the publication of two proceedings for conferences: j An important Lat ! component of the Training in the Control of Sirex noctilio 5 =a a ei Biological Control by the use of natural enemies, pe eee PTOPTAI AS proceedings of a conference held in mpienakl yhbiubgis,c us publiacast ion of Colombo, Brazil in November 1996, was published in English and Maconellicoccus technical Spanish or Portuguese. Biological hirsutus (Green) (at__ information to assist center) with egg in the transfer of weed control, proceedings of a masses and 5 , conference sponsored by Pxotos: USDA APHIS TEAS CLAN, biological control Interagency Noxious Weed technology. Four Symposium in Corvallis, Oregon in in Puerto Rico. In fiscal year 1998 publications completed in fiscai scientists released two species of year 1998 focused on providing December 1997, will be published in December 1998. parasites in Puerto Rico, as well as documentation of previous publishing a leaflet and pocket- attempts to use biological controls In preparation is a handbook that sized pest alert card on the pink to manage forest pests and will summarize the extent and hibiscus mealybug in both English recommendations for future significance of exotic invasive and Spanish. A cooperative biological control efforts: plants in forests east of the agreement was initiated with the Mississippi, including past attempts ¢ Biological control of arthropod forest University of Puerto Rico to develop at biological control as well as pests of the western United States: a control strategies to protect nursery recommendations for future efforts. review and recommendations, by stock and forest trees. Bellows, Meisenbacher, and For more information about these The Beech Scale (Cryptococcus Reardon projects and for copies of the fagisuga) project completed a © Classical biological control of pest publications noted above, contact: insects of trees in the southern United literature review and scientist Richard C. Reardon, USDA Forest contacts in 1998. An expert on Service, Forest Health Technology biological control of scales and Enterprise Team, 180 Canfield St., associates has been identified in Morgantown, WV 26505 (e- China, and the survey for natural mail=rreardon/[email protected]). enemies and documentation of their See also the Mile-a-Minute Weed impact has begun. web site at http:// www.fsl.wv.edu/fhtet/mam. One aspect of biological control is the impact of biological control Richard C. Reardon efforts on native insects which are USDA Forest Service not the target of control. An Technical publications are an important contribution of the Enterprise Team Biological Control Program. O 2 seagate cane Fo ROO BEE. ON ie aL i era ae iy #@) nme iverson leads initiatives for pesticide use reporting, web pages, Year 2000 compliance Enterprise Team Program Leader pesticide data in a standard format, Loren Iverson, who joined the Team so no reentry of data will be early this fall, is working to create required by the Enterprise Team. an “upward” reporting system for Previously, field offices collected the Pesticide Use Reporting System the data and transferred it to (PURS), one of the Team’s core Regional Offices. The Regions then support programs for Forest Health sent the data on to the Enterprise Protection’s Washington Office. Team, where it was reentered into PURS is a database of pesticide use the PURS Oracle database. information collected from the Iverson also has leadership USDA Forest Service Regions and responsibilities for the Enterprise the Northeastern Area. From this Team’s “web” efforts. Within the database, the Team produces an coming year, the Team will develop annual Pesticide Use Report, a its Home Page for the Forest Service summary report of pesticide use on Web. Under his leadership, the National Forest lands containing Team will continue to enhance and Loren Iverson leads PURS, WWW, active ingredients, target pest or Y2K and other programs for the maintain its WWW Home Page. In purpose, quantities used, and units Enterprise Team. addition, the Team maintains the treated for each pesticide. In table Forest Health Home Page, though form, this report is part of the personnel. Since the Oracle the Washington Office will Annual Report of the Forest structure is already in place, eventually take over that Service. Iverson's new initiative will be to responsibility. In the coming year The Team developed an Oracle choose the most efficient approach Iverson will also give attention to database application on the DG to for the PURS reporting system. the Team’s Year 2000 certification manage the data and produce the Using the Internet for data transfer process and provide the computer report. The database was moved to is one possibility under hardware and software necessary the Forest Service corporate IBM consideration. A common Applix for Team operations. platform earlier this year in order to spreadsheet that addresses both Shirley Wilsey open the door for increased access Regional and National needs was Autometric Service Company to the data by the Washington developed for the fiscal year 1998 O Office and other Forest Service report. Field units will enter EPA approves reregistration of microbial products As a part of its responsibilities in tussock moth. Both products are. request. For more information, pesticide registration the still labeled for wide area public please contact John D. Stein, Enterprise Team has successfully pest control programs sponsored by Impacts and Pesticides Program reregistered with the government entities. However, the Manager, Forest Health Technology Environmental Protection labels for each product now include Enterprise Team, USDA Forest Agency two microbial products both aerial and ground applications Service, 180 Canfield St., developed by the Forest Service for forest trees and ornamental or Morgantown, WV 26505. Phone: and cooperators: Gypchek, a non-commercial trees in urban 304-285-1563; Fax: 304-285-1564; virus specific to the gypsy moth, parks, golf courses, lawns, and Forest Service e-mail: jstein/na,mo; and TM-Biocontrol, a virus landscapes. The new labels and e-mail: jstein/[email protected]. specific to the Douglas-fir MSDS revisions are available up on.

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