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Canadian Forest Service
Forest Health Activities
Forest Health Review Committee
Prince George, BC
January 30, 2008
CFS Forest Pest Related
National Projects 2008/09
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Reduction in barriers to trade
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Forest Invasive Alien Species
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Integrated Pest Management
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Mountain Pine Beetle
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Understanding Genomes to improve forest sustainability
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Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
Federal Role in
Forest Sector
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Develop science and technology to enhance forestry
policy and practices.
Support Canada’s international trade interests in the forest
products industry.
Represent Canada’s bilateral and multilateral discussions
and negotiations on forest-related issues of global
significance.
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HQ: Ottawa
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5 Research Centres:
Pacific
Northern
Great Lakes
Laurentian
Atlantic
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Reduction in Barriers
to Trade
The movement of alien invasive species has serious
ecological and economic effects around the world
The Canadian forest sector is affected both in damage to
the forest and in impacts to trade.
The CFS works closely with the CFIA,
international collaborators and provinces to
address this issue
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Reduction in Barriers
to Trade
Economic Analysis
Alien species surveillance and establishment analysis
 Testing pheromone lures for bark beetles
 Barcoding invasive and native pests
Analysis of long-established IAS
 www.exoticpests.gc.ca
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Science support to development of international phytosanitary
measures (CFS/IEPB,CFIA, DFAIT, IPPC, NAPPO)
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Reduction in Barriers
to Trade
Wood Packing treatment options
Sudden Oak Death Risk Analysis
Analysis of fungi in exported
green lumber
Insect and fungal collections
Collections and taxonomy
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Biocontrol of forest weeds
Armillaria
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Integrated Pest
Management
Growth impacts, modeling
Control - stumping
Phellinus/Laminated Root Rot research
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Douglas-fir (DF) resistance
Genomics and proteomics
Occurrence and incidence in BC's southern interior
Management strategies for LRR
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Integrated Pest
Management
Defoliators
Bio-control: Spruce Budworm, Western Hemlock
Looper, Doug-fir Tussock Moth, Hemlock Sawfly,
Winter Moth
• Spruce budworm population ecology and biology
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Dwarf Mistletoe biocontrol
White Pine Weevil
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Selection of resistant trees
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Forest Invasive Species
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Biocontrol and fungicides for management of Sudden
Oak Death
Stem Rusts
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White Pine Blister Rust Research
Septoria canker of hybrid poplar
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Mountain Pine Beetle
Bark Beetles
Modelling the risk of eastern spread of MPB: susceptibility
and host connectivity
Spatial modelling of beetle impact under management and
climate scenarios
Population dynamics of endemic populations
Landscape level spread model for MPB
Incorporation of genomics information
into MPB statistical spread models
(Genome BC announcement)
 Beetle fungal tree interactions
east of Rockies
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Mountain Pine Beetle
Bark Beetles
 Impacts of interacting below- and aboveground herbivores on gap dynamics
 Reproduction of MPB in alternate hosts
(spruce)
 Measuring ecosystem response to beetle
outbreaks
Regeneration and growth releases.
•Measuring interactions between beetle
and fire
•Modeling growth and yield in a beetle
environment
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Mountain Pine Beetle
remote sensing
Estimate changes in MPB population over
time
Assess efficacy of mitigation efforts
Track population dynamics, including
Green:Red ratios (green attack is
retrospectively mapped using time series of
red attack)
Make wide-area estimates from sampled
information
Estimate and adjust red attack damage
estimates
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Spruce Beetle, Western
Spruce Budworm Risk in a
Changing Climate
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Implemented SB voltinism and
WSBW development models
in BioSIM for CC forecasting
Developing statistical outbreak
risk models including CC
Developing collaborations
with USFS Western Threat
Centre, Pacific Climate
Impacts Consortium
Climate Change Impacts
and Adaptation