Exotic pests of eastern forests conference proceedings
Authors: | Kerry O. Britton |
Year: | 1998 |
Type: | Full Proceedings |
Station: | Northern Research Station |
Source: | Conference proceedings; 1997 April 8-10; Nashville, TN. U.S. Forest Service and Tennessee Exotic Pest Plant Council. 198 p. |
Abstract
Invasive exotic pest plants, diseases, and insects, have had a dramatic impact on the health and composition of the Eastern forests for many decades. Chestnut blight was discovered in the United States in 1904. Since then, it has virtually destroyed the chestnut population, which once occupied 25 percent of the eastern forest. In the 1860's, the gypsy moth was accidentally released in Massachusetts. Since then, it has become established in 16 states, and for most of the past 15 years, has defoliated a million acres of hardwood trees each year. Kudzu was introduced into the United States in 1876, and later distributed to many states in an effort to control agricultural erosion. It did not control erosion; rather, it became one of the most serious pest plants in the southeast, where it now covers seven million acres. The Exotic Pests of Eastern Forests Conference was developed to make the audience more aware of the many invasive exotic pests in eastern forests, and the impact which they have had on the ecosystem; and to warn the audience of the potential devastation that could occur if prevention and control measures are not developed and utilized soon.Titles contained within Exotic pests of eastern forests conference proceedings
- Biodiversity and the exotic species threat
- The Exotic Pest Plant Council
- New strategies for weed prevention
- Barriers to exotic weed management
- Beech bark disease
- Meteors, space aliens, and other exotic encounters
- Three American tragedies: chestnut blight, butternut canker, and Dutch elm disease
- Alliaria petiolata
- Global gypsy--the moth that gets around
- The OTA report on harmful nonindigenous species
- Biological control of purple loosestrife in North America
- Siberian forest insects: ready for export
- Economic effects on invasive weeds on land values
- Exotic invasive plants in southeastern forests
- Exotic invasive plants in southeastern forests
- How Illinois kicked the exotic habit
- Highway corridor responsibility
- Selective herbicide applications for low impact vegetation management of exotic species and enhancement of native plant communities
- IPM- How it works in the Smokies
- Hands on exotics
- Ecosystem restoration: a systems approach to exotic plant control
- Mile-a-minute weed in the northeast
- Imported fire ants in the southeast
- Natives: New! Better! Improved!
- The Minnesota Program: community partnerships for effective pest control
- Dogwood anthracnose: how collaboration was used in the Southern United States to effectively deal with a new tree disease
- How exotic does an exotic information and education initiative about the impact of non-indigenous species need to be?
- Monitoring changes in exotic vegetation
- Exotic insects in North American forests: ecological systems forever altered
- Mangrove forests: a tough system to invade