Tag: Central America

New Mesoamerican Pine Beetle Described by SRS Scientist and Collaborators

by Zoё Hoyle, SRS Science Delivery Group  • 
A newly-discovered species of tree-killing bark beetle, Dendroctonus mesoamericanus Armendáriz-Toledano and Sullivan, has been described in a paper just published online in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America by a group of researchers that includes a U.S. Forest Service scientist. Numerous and diverse studies by a research team that includes members from the U.S.,…  More 

FIA Support for Forest Inventories in Central and South America

by Tom Brandeis, SRS Forest Inventory and Analysis  • 
Researchers with the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) continue to provide support for forest inventory activities in other countries. On March 26 and 27, the SRS Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) office in Knoxville, Tennessee hosted Dr. Dionicio Alvarado Rosales, Professor of Forest Pathology, Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Montecillo, Mexico, who met with…  More