Document Type

Brochure

Coming Spruce Budworm Outbreak: Initial Risk Assessment and Preparation & Response Recommendations for Maine's Forestry Community

Authors

Cooperative Forestry Research Unit, University of Maine
Maine Forest Products Council
Maine Forest Service

Publisher

University of Maine

Publication Date

3-16-2016

Publisher location

Orono, ME

Abstract/ Summary

The Maine Spruce Budworm Task Force was formed in summer 2013 by the University of Maine’s Cooperative Forestry Research Unit (CFRU), Maine Forest Service (MFS), and Maine Forest Products Council (MFPC) to begin preparing for the next outbreak of the eastern spruce budworm.

The last SBW outbreak during the 1970s–80s grew quickly, killed millions of acres of spruce-fir stands, and cost the region’s economy many hundreds of millions of dollars. Although it is not possible to predict exactly when defoliation of balsam fir and spruce will begin, how severe the next outbreak will eventually become, or how long it will last, it is vital that Maine’s forestland owners and stewards begin preparing before widespread defoliation begins.

Repository Citation

Cooperative Forestry Research Unit, University of Maine; Maine Forest Products Council; and Maine Forest Service, "Coming Spruce Budworm Outbreak: Initial Risk Assessment and Preparation & Response Recommendations for Maine's Forestry Community" (2016). General University of Maine Publications. 2073.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/univ_publications/2073

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