• State & Private Forestry
  USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Area
  

The spruce budworm is an insect indigenous to North America and one that has periodically created very extensive tree mortality in the coniferous forests of Canada and the United States. Epidemics of the spruce budworm have been traced back to 1704, but they probably have occurred periodically for centuries. The impacts, both beneficial and adverse, avaialbe alternative actions, and the purposes and objectives of the basic State/Forest Service cooperative spruce budworm suppression program are discussed in detail in this and previous environmental impacts statements.