INTEGRATED FOREST PROTECTION

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INTEGRATED FOREST PROTECTION

• LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Principles of IFP
• Application of IFP to Nurseries
• Strategies and Tools for IFP in Forests

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Integrated Forest Protection

• Interdisciplinary (Systems approach)
• Clear goals
• Ecological basis
• Pest interactions
• Plant Disease Triangle
• Economic (or action) thresholds
• Use a variety of tactics and treatments in a
  coordinated approach
• Prevention of pest problems

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Systems Approach
Forest Management
(What are your Goals?)
Pest Management
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Ecological Basis
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PATHOGEN
PATHOGEN
PATHOGEN
PATHOGEN
ENVIRONMENT
HOST
ENVIRONMENT
HOST
ENVIRONMENT
PLANT DISEASE TRIANGLE
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Economic (or Action) Thesholds
Benefit Cost
Economic Injury Level or Resource Impact Level
Pest Population Density
Economic Threshold or Action Threshold
Time
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Information Needed to Implement Integrated Forest
Protection

• Basic biology and ecology
• Impact data
• Detection/monitoring systems
• Hazard/risk rating systems
• Treatment alternatives

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Hazard and Risk Rating Models

• Hazard susceptibility
• suitability of the environment for a specific
  pest
• amount of damage that will occur if pest is
  present
• Risk Hazard measure of pest abundance and
  proximity
• probability that an infestation will occur
• Hazard ? Risk

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The Forest Insect and Pathogen Hazard Rating
System Database

• Cataloging hundreds of North American
• Hazard Rating Models
• in one cross-referenced Microsoft Access database

Andrew McMahan1 Eric L Smith2
1 ITX, Inc., Ft. Collins, CO 2 Forest Health
Technology Enterprise Team, Fort Collins,
CO http//www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/technology/
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STRATEGIES
EARLY DETECTION EXCLUSION PREVENTION PROTECTION ER
ADICATION
PATHOGEN
PATHOGEN
PATHOGEN
PATHOGEN
ENVIRONMENT
HOST
ENVIRONMENT
HOST
ENVIRONMENT
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TOOLS

• PORT OF ENTRY INSPECTIONS
• AERIAL SURVEY
• QUARANTINE
• RESISTANCE
• SILVICULTURE
• SILVICULTURE
• SILVICULTURE
• CHAINSAWS
• HOEDADS
• FUNGICIDES

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Integrated Nursery Protection

• Interdisciplinary (Systems approach)
• Clear goals
• Ecological basis
• Pest interactions
• Plant Disease Triangle
• Economic (or action) thresholds
• Use a variety of tactics and treatments in a
  coordinated approach
• Prevention of pest problems

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Interdisciplinary (Systems approach) Clear goals
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Ecological basis Pest interactions Plant Disease
Triangle
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Economic (or action) thresholds
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Information Needed to Implement Integrated Forest
Protection

• Basic biology and ecology
• Impact data
• Detection/monitoring systems
• Hazard/risk rating systems
• Treatment alternatives

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PHYTOPHTHORA ROOT ROT
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FUMIGATION
SOLARIZATION
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FUSARIUM ROOT ROT
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Integrated Decay Management

• Interdisciplinary (Systems approach)
• Clear goals
• Ecological basis
• Pest interactions
• Plant Disease Triangle
• Economic (or action) thresholds
• Use a variety of tactics and treatments in a
  coordinated approach
• Prevention of pest problems

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MANAGING TREE DECAY
AVOID WOUNDING
CLEAR CUT HARVEST
PATHOGEN
PATHOGEN
PATHOGEN
PATHOGEN
ENVIRONMENT
HOST
ENVIRONMENT
HOST
ENVIRONMENT
SHORT ROTATIONS
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Pest Interactions
Competing Vegetation (-)
Pine Tip Moths ()
Fusiform Rust () Pitch Canker()
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PATHOGEN
PATHOGEN
PATHOGEN
PATHOGEN
ENVIRONMENT
HOST
ENVIRONMENT
HOST
ENVIRONMENT
STRATEGIES AND TOOLS