Alaska Forest Health Protection Program

The Alaska Division of Forestry (DOF) Forest Health Protection program provides assistance to various federal resource program partners, Alaska forest resource agencies, private landowners, and other "state and private" clients for:

• pest mitigation and control advice
• forest insect research
• periodic ground surveys
• pest assessments
• monitoring of economic forest pests throughout Alaska's forested region.

Recent work includes:

• The Alaska 2005 Forest Health Aerial Detection Survey data online.
• Using natural bark beetle pheromones to mitigate native bark beetle infestation.
• Pheromone trapping to monitor for non-native and exotic bark beetles and wood borers near Alaska's interior and coastal ports.
• Assisting USFS with a biological control project against a leafminer on birch in Anchorage.
• Conducting a comprehensive nematode and wood pest survey in the coastal forest production areas to support the Alaska wood export industry to Asia.
• Cooperating with other agencies to conduct aerial forest damage surveys.

Contacts

• Roger Burnside, Anchorage
• Robert Ott, Fairbanks