A Work Plan to Minimize Effects of the Spruce Budworm Through Stand Alteration
Problem Addressed: Spruce Budworm
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Evaluate the long term effects of both new and old forest management practices on spruce budworm populations and forest composition, assess regional effects of new and old management practices to control spruce budworm populations and reduce stand susceptibility and vulnerability, and evaluate the long term effects of the above on a large scale.
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- Kemp, William P.
Michigan State University - Simmons, Gary A.
Michigan State University
The eastern spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (Clemens) is native to North America and is distributed throughout the northern boreal forest from Alberta to Maine. The preferred hosts are balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.), white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss), and red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.)(Greenbank 1963). All three of these species are harvested for pulpwood and are economically important in Quebec, New Brunswick and Maine. Therefore, the spruce budworm is competing for a principal resource with man. As a result, the spruce budworm has been the subject of intensive study.
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