Problem Addressed: Tree mortality and growth due to pandora moth outbreaks
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Examine tree mortality and growth in defoliated, insecticide treated, and undefoliated stands in the pandora moth outbreak area on the Kaibab National Forest
Key Findings: Tree mortality was less than 1%, defoliation loss was estimated at least 11 f.b.m. per acre per year.
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Suppress an incipient spruce budworm outbreak in the Lower St. Lawrence region of Quebec though the aerial application of DDT
Key Findings: Although the distribution of eggs could serve as a guide to determine the areas requiring treatment the following year, the exact delimitation of the spray area should be based on a survey carried out just before application of the insecticide.
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Provide some details of the variation in mortality among plots, as well as describing recovery.
Key Findings: It appears that while these immature stands have recovered remarkably from the effects of intense uncontrolled defoliation, they will yield only slightly more than one-half of the projected volume at maturity.
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Discuss and review the 1971 Spruce Budworm aerial spraying program and suggest proposals for 1972.
Key Findings: The trends suggest that the biocontrol complex operating against the budworm has been weakened, and that spraying may lead to higher general equilibrium levels of budworm, so that resurgence becomes more probable; so far, no minor pest is opportunistically approaching epidemic status. However, spray-induced interference with biocontrol forces leaves this possibility open.