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Acknowledgments

The authors express their sincere thanks to the following pest specialists for providing first drafts of information related to the pest(s) noted. Without their input, there would have been a significant delay in the completion of this analysis. We also appreciate their tolerance in allowing heavy-handed editing of their information to fit it within the constraints of the final format of this analysis.

Robert L. Anderson, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Atlanta, GA (butternut canker); C. Wayne Berisford, University of Georgia, Athens, GA (Nantucket pine tip moth); Ronald F. Billings, Texas Forest Service, Lufkin, TX (southern pine beetle); Stephen R. Clarke, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Lufkin, TX (other bark beetles); Don Duerr, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Asheville, NC (baldcypress leafroller and forest tent caterpillar); D.M. Grosman, Texas Forest Service, Lufkin, TX (pine reproduction weevils and Texas leaf-cutting ant); Nolan Hess, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Pineville, LA (annosus root disease); John L. Knighten, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Asheville, NC (retired) (dogwood anthracnose); Paul A. Mistretta, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Atlanta, GA (beech bark disease, brown spot needle disease, and littleleaf disease); Steven W. Oak, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Asheville, NC (oak decline); James R. Rhea, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Asheville, NC (balsam woolly adelgid and hemlock woolly adelgid); William H. Sites, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Asheville, NC (chestnut blight); Jim Solomon, USDA Forest Service, Forest Insect Disease Research, Stoneville, MS (retired) (woodborers); Dale A. Starkey, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Pineville, LA (oak wilt); Jeffrey J. Witcosky, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Asheville, NC (gypsy moth); and Carol H. Young, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Asheville, NC, and Robert L. Anderson, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Atlanta, GA (fusiform rust).