• Maine Forest Service, Department of Conservation
  

Conditions for 1987 roughly paralleled those of 1986 consisting of a diversity of relatively minor problems with few of the major pest crises of the past. The challenges of dealing with a different array of pest problems and differing, emphasis provided the I &DM staff with an interesting series of mental exercises as well as increased field work. The result has been an evolving new strategy in dealing with management related problems of the "new forests."