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ROCKY MOUNTAIN FOREST DISTRICT MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE UPDATE February 1 st , 2009

ROCKY MOUNTAIN FOREST DISTRICT MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE UPDATE February 1 st , 2009. Outline. Mountain Pine Beetle Management TSA Infestation Levels Timber Supply Mortality Impacts Single Tree Treatment Program Forest Health NRFL Stand Development Monitoring.

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ROCKY MOUNTAIN FOREST DISTRICT MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE UPDATE February 1 st , 2009

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  1. ROCKY MOUNTAIN FOREST DISTRICT MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE UPDATEFebruary 1st, 2009

  2. Outline Mountain Pine Beetle ManagementTSA Infestation Levels Timber Supply Mortality Impacts Single Tree Treatment Program Forest Health NRFL Stand Development Monitoring

  3. PROVINCIAL AERIAL OVERVIEW 2009DRM MPB INFESTATION51,645 HA

  4. Cranbrook TSA’s MostHeavily Impacted Landscape Units –

  5. Invermere TSA’s MostHeavily Impacted Landscape Units –

  6. Pine Stands in upper Elk Valley south of the Alberta/BC border October 2009

  7. Forsyth Creek – Elk Valley Single Tree Treatment Sites 2009/10

  8. SINGLE TREE TREATMENT PROGRAM SUPPRESSION UNIT FUNDING RECEIVED $766,000 FIA$1.4 Million Federal Funds (only District in the Province funded in 2009) ACTIVITES PLANNEDGPS Detailed Aerial Survey20,000 Ha Ground Surveys to mark infested stems 12,000 Fall and Burn

  9. SINGLE TREE TREATMENT PROGRAMSUPPRESSION BEETLE MANAGMENT UNITS

  10. SINGLE TREE TREATMENT PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO DATE

  11. POPULATION TRENDS Unsettled conditions with variable Green to Red Ratios – range 0.5 : 1 to 3:1 Local populations are down slightly overall from last year Anomalies exist in some locales suggesting transient influx (from Montana)Overwinter mortality surveys will be conducted in late March

  12. FOREST HEALTH NRFL CBK TSA 100,000 m³ targeting MPB infested and highly susceptible lodgepole pine to be advertised shortly Shorter term (3yr.) to address reducing spread rate

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