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Applying a Spruce Budworm Decision Support System to Maine: Projecting Spruce-Fir Volume Impacts under Alternative Management and Outbreak Scenarios

Problem Addressed: Spruce Budworm
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Implement the Spruce Budworm Decision Support System
Key Findings: Statewide analysis suggested that over 4 million ha of Maine's forest are vulnerable to the budworm.
Views: 1970
Downloads: 2
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Influence of harvest gaps and coarse woody material on click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in Maine’s Acadian forest

Goal(s)/Objective(s): To examine how the species richness, abundance, diversity, and assemblage of similarity of click beetles inhabiting coarse woody material were affected by harvesting and coarse woody material characteristics.
Key Findings: Small (less than 0.2 ha) harvest gaps with living trees retained throughout the gap can maintain click beetle assemblages similar to that of an unharvested forest.
Views: 1978
Downloads: 0
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Irland relics on Budworm

Problem Addressed: Various aspects of the spruce budworm challenge to Maine's forests
Goal(s)/Objective(s): This is a reading list of obscure items for anyone interested. Few are on Web.
Key Findings: Various summaries of the last budworm outbreak and lessons learned.
Views: 2297
Downloads: 9
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Brown needles Lessons from SBW Outbreak of 70’s and 80’s

Problem Addressed: Lessons learned.
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Informal summary on issues.
Key Findings: Forest, industry, and pest control options have all changed. WE have one well observed outbreak but next one may be different.
Recommendation: Continue the march already begun by State with intense early monitoring, and industry and University with planning, education, and information.
Views: 2202
Downloads: 5
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Aminocarb and Fenitrothion in Aquatic Plants and Benthic Macroinvertebrates

Problem Addressed: Aminocarb and fenitrothion on aquatic plants and benthic macroinvertebrates.
Goal(s)/Objective(s): To collect and analyze a number of samples of aquatic plants and benthic macroinvertebrates for aminocarb following its application under experimental and operational spray conditions
Views: 2174
Downloads: 0
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