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The Bark Beetles, Fuels, and Fire Bibliography

Bark beetle outbreaks have resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of conifers on approximately 30 million hectares of forested lands in western North America during the last decade. Many forests remain susceptible to bark beetle infestation and will continue to experience high levels of conifer mortality until suitable host trees are depleted, or natural factors cause populations to collapse. Stand conditions and drought, combined with warming temperatures, have contributed to the severity of these outbreaks, particularly in high-elevation forests.

Conventional wisdom suggests that large scale bark beetle outbreaks alter fuel complexes resulting in an increased potential for severe fires. Conversely, fires damage trees that may predispose them to bark beetle attack. In reality there is little specific quantified data supporting these assertions, and until recently, relationships between fire and western bark beetles in forests of North America have not been extensively studied. The magnitude of recent outbreaks and large wildfires has resulted in a flurry of research attempting to quantify bark beetle/fire/fuel interactions.

We hope and expect that our freely accessible, online bibliography may be of great benefit to any scholarly research. The bibliography searching can be conducted through titles, by author name, or by descriptive words. Where possible, full text of the documents are provided as PDF documents.

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1987 1987

Role of Drought in Outbreaks of Plant-Eating Insects, William J. Mattson and Robert A. Haack; BioScience

Partial Cutting Lodgepole Pine Stands to Reduce Losses to the Mountain Pine Beetle, Mark D. McGregor, Gene D. Amman, Richard F. Schmitz, and Robert D. Oakes; Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Interacting Selective Pressure in Conifer-bark Beetle Systems: a Basis for Reciprocal Adaptations?, K. F. Raffa and A. A. Berryman; The American Naturalist

Fire Potential in the Spruce Budworm-Damaged Forests of Ontario, B J. Stocks; The Forestry Chronicle

Site and Stand Characterists, N. William Wulf and Rex G. Cates; USDA Forest Service, Technical Bulletin

1986 1986

BEHAVE : Fire Behavior Prediction and Fuel Modeling System - BURN Subsystem, Part 1, Patricia L. Andrews

Surface Fuel Loadings and Prediced Fire Behavior for Vegetation Types in the Northern Rocky Mountains, James K. Brown and Collin D. Bevins

Postfire Survival in Douglas-Fir and Lodgepole Pine: Comparing the Effects of Crown and Bole Damage, D. L. Peterson and M. J. Arbaugh; Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains: Effects on Fuels and Fire in Lodgepole Pine Forest (Abstract), W H. Romme, D H. Knight, and J Fedders; Program of the 71st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America

Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains: Regulators of Primary Productivity?, W. H. Romme, D. H. Knight, and J. B. Yavitt; The American Naturalist

Wildfire Patterns Change in Central Idaho’s Ponderosa-Pine-Douglas-Fir Forest, Robert Steele, Stephen F. Arno, and Kathleen Geier-Hayes; Western Journal of Applied Forestry

Age and Size Structure of Subalpine Forests in the Colorado Front Range, Thomas T. Veblen; Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club

Treefalls and the Coexistence of Conifers in Subalpine Forests of the Central Rockies, Thomas T. Veblen; Ecology

Fire Induced Tree Mortality in a Colorado Ponderosa Pine/Douglas-Fir Stand, J. G. Wyant, P. N. Omni, and R. D. Laven; Forest Science

1985 1985

Moisture and Fine Forest Fuel Response, H E. Anderson; Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Influence of Fires, Fungi and Mountain Pine Beetles on Development of a Lodgepole Pine Forest in South-Central Oregon, R I. Gara, W R. Littke, J K. Agee, D R. Geiszler, J D. Stuart, and C H. Driver; Lodgepole Pine : The Species and Its Management Symposium Proceedings

Spruce Beetles Attack Slowly Growing Spruce, John S. Hard; Forest Science

Role of Fire in Lodgepole Pine Forests, James E. Lotan, James K. Brown, and Leon F. Neuenschwander; Lodgepole Pine : The Species and Its Management Symposium Proceedings

Integrating Management Strategies for the Mountain Pine Beetle with Multiple-Resource Management of Lodgepole Pine Forests, Mark D. McGregor and Dennis M. Cole

Crown Scorch Volume and Scorch Height: Estimates of Post-Fire Tree Condition, D. L. Peterson; Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Evaluating Prescribed Fires, Kevin C. Ryan and Nonan V. Noste; Proceedings - Symposium and Workshop on Wilderness Fire; 1983 November 15-18; Missoula, MT

Demographic Aspects of Coexistence in Engelmann Spruce and Subalpine Fir, Kathleen L. Shea; American Journal of Botany

Factors Influencing Generation Times of Spruce Beetles in Alaska, Richard A. Werner and Edward H. Holsten; Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Coniferous Forest Habitat Types of Central and Southern Utah, Andrew P. Youngblood and Ronald L. Mauk

1984 1984

The Penetration and Growth of Blue-Stain Fungi in the Sapwood of Lodgepole Pine by Mountain Pine Beetle, R. G. Ballard, M. A. Walsh, and W. E. Cole; Canadian Journal of Botony