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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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1975 1975

Fire Cycles and Community Dynamics in Lodgepole Pine Forests, James K. Brown; Management of Lodgepole Pine Ecosystems : Symposium Proceedings

1974 1974

Development of Spruce-Fir Stands Following Spruce Beetle Outbreaks, J M. Schmid and T E. Hinds

1973 1973

Fire Dependent Forests in the Northern Rocky Mountains, J. R. Habeck and R. W. Mutch; Quaternary Research

Fire in the Virgin Forests of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Minnesota, Miron L. Heinselman; Quaternary Research

Wildfires in Northern Yellowstone National Park, D. B. Houston; Ecology

The Ecological Role of Fire in the Jackson Hole Area, Northwestern Wyoming, Lloyd L. Loope and George E. Gruell; Quaternary Research

Further Observations on Douglure in a Dendroctonus pseudotsugae Management System, G. B. Pitman; Environmental Entomology

1972 1972

Lethal and Nonlethal Effects of the Organic Horizons of Forested Soils on the Germination of Seeds from Several Associated Conifer species of the Rocky Mountains, T. W. Daniel and Josef Schmidt; Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Forest Fuel Accumulation -- A Growing Problem, Marvin Dodge; Science

Factors Affecting Spruce Beetles During a Small Outbreak, William F. McCambridge and Fred B. Knight; Ecology

A Mathematical Model for Predicting Fire Spread in Wildland Fuels, R. C. Rothermel

Trans-verbenol Isolated from Douglas-fir Beetle: Laboratory and Field Bioassays in Oregon, J. A. Rudinsky, G. W. Kinzer, A. F. Fentiman Jr., and R. L. Foltz; Environmental Entomology

1971 1971

A Planar Intersect Method for Sampling Fuel Volume and Surface Area, James K. Brown; Forest Science

The Seasonal Trends in Moisture Content, Ether Extractives, and Energy of Ponderosa Pine and Douglas-fir Needles, C. W. Philpot and R. W. Mutch

1970 1970

Damage to Douglas-fir Cones by Choristoneura occidentalis, Jerald E. Dewey; Journal of Economic Entomology

Age Distributions of Spruce and Fir in Beetle-Killed Forests on the White River Plateau, Colorado, Philip C. Miller; American Midland Naturalist

Mountain Pine Beetle in Lodgepole Pine Forests, Arthur L. Roe and Gene D. Amman

Fire Weather : A Guide for Application of Meteorological Information to Forest Fire Control Operations, Mark J. Schroeder and Charles C. Buck; USDA Forest Service, Agriculture Handbook 360

1966 1966

Scolytid Beetles Associated with Douglas Fir: Response to Terpenes, Julius A. Rudinsky; Science

Experiments on the Interrelationship Between Oleoresin Exudation Pressure in Pinus ponderosa and Attack by Ips confusus (Lee.) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), David L. Wood; The Canadian Entomologist

1965 1965

Susceptibility of Fire-Injured Douglas-Fir to Bark Beetle Attack in Southern Idaho, Malcolm M. Furniss; Journal of Forestry

1962 1962

On the Flight and Host Selection of the Douglas-fir Beetle, Dendroctonus pseudotsugae Hopk. (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), L. H. McMullen and M. D. Atkins; The Canadian Entomologist

1961 1961

Influence of Logging on Douglas Fir Beetle Populations, R R. Lejeune, L H. McMullen, and M D. Atkins; The Forestry Chronicle

1958 1958

The Effects of Woodpeckers on Populations of the Engelmann Spruce Beetle, F B. Knight; Journal of Economic Entomology

1954 1954

Biology and Control of the Engelmann Spruce Beetle in Colorado, C L. Massey and N D. Wygant