FOREST RESTORATION PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT FOR THE SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE AND OTHER INVASIVE PEST SPECIES

Suppression and prevention of Southern Pine Beetle

• Coulson, R. N., K. D. Klepzig, T. E. Nebeker, F. L. Oliveria, S. M. Salom, F. M. Stephen, and H. J. Meyer (Eds.)  2004 The Research, Development, and Applications Agenda for a Southern Pine Beetle Integrated Pest Management Program.  Proceedings of A Facilitated Workshop, August 11-14, 2003, Mountain Lake, VA.

• "After the Southern Pine Beetle"----A Workshop to Discuss Options for Public Lands in the Southern Appalachians and the Cumberland Plateau," was held January 21-22, 2004 in Murphy and Brasstown, NC.

• Southern Pine Beetle--A time for action to protect the South’s Forests July 4, 2001. Policy Statement, National Association of State Foresters.

• Southern Pine Beetle Internet Control Center

Forest landscape restoration

• The SPB Prevention and Restoration Program by USDA Forest Service.

• The Forest Restoration Information Service by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Center.

• Bankhead forest health and restoration initiative final report by Drs. Mary Lou Addor at Natural Resources Institute, North Carolina State University and Juliana Birkhoff at RESOLVE Inc.

Implications of LANDIS forest model

• LANDIS Documentation by Dr. Hong. S. He of School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia.

• LANDIS-II Documentation by the Forest Landscape Ecology Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison, in collaboration with the USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.

Biodiversity and forest conservation in Southern Appalachian Mountains

• The Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)

• The Carolina Vegetation Survey

• Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project

• Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition

• Appalachian Forest Resource Center

• Western North Carolina Alliance

• Southern Regional Extension Forestry

• Southern Appalachian Mountains Initiative

• Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy

• Ecological Society of America-Southeastern Chapter

• Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project

• Appalachian Society of American Foresters

• Appalachian Forest Regional Center

Government agencies for natural resources and forestry

• North Carolina Division of Forest Resources

• Tennessee Department of Agriculture

• Georgia Department of Natural Resources

• Ecology, Biology and Management of Bark Beetles and Invasive Forest Insects of Southern Conifers Unit of the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station

• The USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Monitoring (FHM)

• The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program

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