Forest Benefits

The Forest Health program helps maintain and improve the health of Oregon's private and state-owned forests.

Our forest health professionals conduct aerial and ground surveys to monitor forest insects and tree diseases. They provide technical advice and training in the use of integrated pest management principles to help professional foresters and landowners meet their management goals and objectives​.

Stewardship Foresters, urban foresters, forest entomologists and pathologists can help landowners identify forest pest problems and develop strategies to manage pests.​ Contact a Stewardship Forester or the Forest Health program for more information or assistance.

Factsheets & information

Insects ​Email​ the Forest Entomologist for more information.​​ Quick Insect Pest Guide Insect Pest Visual Guide​ Bark beetles Douglas-fir Beetle  Douglas-fir Pole and Engraver Beetles Fir Engraver Beetle Ips Beetle Mountain Pine Beetle Western Pine Beetle​ Red Turpentine Beetle Woodboring Beetle​ Borers Flatheaded Fir Borer Sequoia Pitch Moth Bronze Birch Borer Ambrosia Beetle Defoliators Pine Butterfly Pandora Moth Douglas-fir Tussock Moth Larch Casebearer Western Tent Caterpillar Western Spruce Budworm Fall Webworm Sawflies​ Sap-feeding insects Conifer Adelgids Spruce Aphid​​​ Scale Insects Shoot, twig, cone, etc. insects Conifer cone pests Douglas-fir needle midge Shoot borer Weevils Oak Galls Control and Management MCH for Douglas-fir Beetle Management Slash management for Bark Beetles Prevention Insecticides​ ​ Diseases Sudden Oak Death: Fact Sheet Foliage diseases Elytroderma Needle Blight Larch Needle Cast Rhabdocline Needle Cast Swiss Needle Cast of Douglas-fir in Oregon Swiss Needle Cast Cooperative​ Root diseases​ Annosus Root Rot Armillaria Root Rot Black Stain Root Disease Laminated Root Rot​​ ​Email​ the Forest Pathologist for more information.​ ​​ Invasives Invasive Species in Oregon Forest Health Fact Sheet Diseases Port Orford Cedar Root Disease US Forest Service (USFS) White Pine Blister Rust​ USFS  ​ Sudden Oak Death Help stop the spread of Sudden Oak Death! Learn about this disease, its hosts, symptoms, eradication efforts, and what you can do to help. SOD management guide​ California Oak Mortality Task Force Website  Sudden Oak Death Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA)  Sudden Oak Death: Establishing Pest Free Production Sites in Curry County Quarantine Area Sudden Oak Death: Fact Sheet Noxious weeds​​ ForestryFacts_Herbicides_And_Forestry_01092017.pdf Noxious weed list ODA Gorse Aerial Survey GIS Data​ zip file ​Gorse Survey Info Sheet Bandon Area Map Port Orford Area Map Brookings Area Map​ Aerial Photos from survey (KMZ)​ Biology and Biological Control of Gorse and Scotch Broom​ Insects​ Elongate hemlock scale​ ODF Gypsy M​o​th​ ODF Checking Gypsy Moth Traps​ ODF Emerald ash borer USFS Firewood Website: Don't Move Firewood Video: Don't Move Firewood: Buy it Where you Burn it ​Email​ the Invasive Species Specialist for more information. Other ​Email​ for more information.​ Abiotic damage Drought stress in conifers Storms and forest health Animal damage​ Bear Damage Report​​ Tree declines ​Why is my tree dying? (Western redcedar​​)

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