Forest Insect Pests References

Amman, G. D, and K. c. Ryan. 1991. Insect infestation of fire-injured trees in the Greater Yellowstone Area. Technical Report. Research Note INT-398 US Forest Service. (Link)

Amman, G. D. 1991. Bark beetle-fire associations in the Greater Yellowstone Area. In: Nodvin SC, Waldrop TA, Eds. Fire and the environment: ecological and cultural perspectives. Proceedings of an international symposium. 1990 March 20-24: Knoxville, TN, USA Asheville, NC: US Forest Service Southeastern Forest Experimental Station. (Link)

Balch, R.E. 1930. The spruce budworm epidemic on lodgepole in Wyoming. US Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology, Coeur d’Alene Forest Insect Laboratory, ID.

Bebi, P., and D. Kulakowski, T. Veblen. 2003. Interactions between fire and spruce beetles in a subalpine Rocky Mountain forest landscape. Ecology 84: 362-71. (Link)

Bigler, C., and D. Kulakowski. 2005. Multiple disturbance interactions and drought influence fire severity in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests. Ecology 86: 3018-29. (Link)

Despain, D. G. 1990. Yellowstone vegetation: consequences of environment and history in a natural setting. Boulder: Roberts Rinehart.

Fleming, R., J. Candau, and R. McAlpine. 2002. Landscape-scale analysis of interactions between insect defoliation and forest fire in central Canada. Climate Change 55: 251-72.

Furniss, M. M., and R.A. Renkin. 2003. Forest entomology in Yellowstone National Park, 1923-1957: time of discovery and learning to let live. American Entomology 49: 198-209.

Hopkins, A. 1909. Practical information on the Scolytid beetles of North American forests. I. Barkbeetles of the genus Dendroctonus. Technical report. Bulletin 83. USDA Bureau of Entomology.

Johnson, P. C., and R. E. Denton. 1975. Outbreaks of the western spruce budworm in the American northern Rocky Mountain area from 1922 through 1971. US Forest Service General Technical Report. INT-20.

Lynch, H. J., R. A. Renkin, R. Crabtree, and P. Moorcroft. 2006. The Influence of previous mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) activity on the 1988 Yellowstone Fires. Ecosystems 9: 1318-1327. (Link)

McCullough, D., R. Werner, and D. Neumann. 1998. Fire and insects in northern and boreal forest ecosystems of North America. Annual Review of Entomology 43: 107-27.

Renkin, R. A., and D. G. Despain. 1992. Fuel moisture, forest type, and lightning-caused fire in Yellowstone National Park. Canadian Journal of Forestry Research 22(1): 37-45.

Schmid, J. M.; Amman, G. D. 1992. Dendroctonus beetles and old-growth forests in the Rockies. Fort Collins, CO: US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. General Technical Report. RM-213. (Link)

Schoennagel, T., T. Velben, and W. Romme. 2004. The interaction of fires, fuels, and climate across Rocky Mountain forests. BioScience 54(7): 661-76.

Veblen, T., et al. 1994. Disturbance regime and disturbance interactions in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest. Ecology 82: 125-35.

Whiteside, J. M., and V. M. Carolin, Jr. 1961. Spruce budworm in the western United States. US Forest Service Pest Leaflet 53.

Internet Links

Bark and Wood Boring Beetles of the World, Scolytinae

U.S. Forest Service, Northern and Intermountain Regions, Forest Health Protection