John Albright Schenk papers, 1951-1984

Overview of the Collection

Creator
John Albright Schenk, 1924-
Title
John Albright Schenk papers
Dates
1951-1984 (inclusive)
Quantity
5 cubic feet
Collection Number
MG 376, MG376 (collection)
Summary
Research data concerning forest entomology research conducted by John A. Schenk, Molly Stock, and Karel Stoszek; includes maps, photographs and microscope slides.
Repository
University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Library
875 Perimeter Drive
MS 2350
Moscow, ID
83844-2350
Telephone: 2088850845
libspec@uidaho.edu
Languages
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Forest entomologist John Albright Schenk was born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, on October 22, 1924. He received his B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1950, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1956 and 1961.

From 1951 to 1953 he was employed by the Relief Model Division of the Army Map Service, and he worked as a forester for the United States Forest Service from 1953 to 1954. From 1959 to 1961, while completing his Ph.D., he worked for the Wisconsin Conservation Department.

His entire teaching career, from 1961 to his retirement in 1988, was at the University of Idaho, where he specialized in forest entomological research with emphasis on biology and ecology of forest pests and their control by silviculture and biological methods. Among the insects he studies were cone and seed insects and bark beetles.

In addition to his teaching and research duties, he served as assistant to the head of the Department of Forest Resources and as director of the Master of Forestry program. He also served on a variety of committees including Faculty Council and Faculty Affairs. He is also a member of a number of professional organizations including the American Registry of Professional Entomologists, the Entomological Society of America, the Entomological Society of Canada, the Society of American Foresters, and the Western Forest Insect Work Conference.

Following his retirement in 1988 he moved to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho where he still resides.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

These papers, which were sent to the University of Idaho library by the department of Forest Entomology several years after Schenk's retirement, also contain some papers of Schenk's colleagues Molly Stock and Karel Stoszek.

Included in the collection are records of entomological research conducted by Schenk, Stock, and Stoszek, reprints of related articles, Forest Service maps of areas studied, and microscope slides of forest pests. Also included are personal and classroom papers of Stock and Stoszek.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Alternative Forms Available

Some of the materials in this collection were digitized and added to the digital Idaho Forestry Research Collection.

Preferred Citation

Photographer, "Title," date. Collection name, object ID. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, Moscow, ID.

Author, Description or "Title" of item, date. Collection name, collection number, box, folder. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, Moscow, ID.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Most of the material in this record group was in labeled file folders or three ring notebooks. In reviewing the material for processing it was decided to keep the records in their received order, since that order did lend itself to a series breakdown.

The first series, Entomological Research Projects, is separated into subseries by project. The spruce budworm research, of which Molly Stock was a part, was a cooperative program between Canada and the United States (CANUSA). Included are coding forms, field data, reprints of related articles and CANUSA publications.

Schenk's research on the bark beetle, MS (McIntyre-Stennis) 17, was a cooperative program with Potlatch Corporation. Papers include the agreement between the University and Potlatch, data collection forms, hand drawn maps of the study areas, reports of timber cruises in the areas, reports of insects caught on sticky traps, and summaries of the work completed.

The shoot borer project was conducted by Karel Stoszek and includes data collection sheets and reports.

The log books are daily records of the insects received or reared in the laboratory.

The final subseries includes wick data sheets, results of insecticide tests, and publications relating to forest entomology.

The second series contains U.S. Forest Service maps of study areas in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Montana, and New Mexico. These are filed alphabetically by forest, and a few folders also contain recreational maps of the areas. The maps of Alberta and Saskatchewan are standard road maps.

The papers of Mary W. (Molly) Stock, who worked as a research assistant at Washington State University before coming to the University of Idaho in 1974, include academic transcripts, correspondence, class notebooks from her student days, classroom handouts for her Insect Anatomy and Physiology course, and research notes on the Douglas fir tussock moth.

Karel Stoszek joined the University of Idaho faculty in 1975. His papers include handouts for his Fundamentals of Forest Protection course and several articles on the Douglas fir tussock moth.

The final series contains photographs and microscope slides. The photographs also include negatives and slides. Subjects include study areas, damaged and diseased trees, and wing studies.

The glass microscope slides are of insects, both field nymphs and field adults, insects reared in the laboratory, and slides used in the wing study. These slides date from 1969 to 1972.

Material discarded includes duplicates of mimeographed and published material, unused data collection forms, and coding sheets. The material in 3 ring notebooks was transferred to folders. In this way the collection was reduced by 3 cubic feet.

Acquisition Information

The papers of entomologist John A. Schenk were donated to the University of Idaho Library by the Department of Forest Entomology in October 1993.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I. Entomological Research Projects, 1957-1984Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
A. Spruce Budworm
1978-1981
Box/Folder
1/1
Coding descriptions (Fire & logging), habitat type, keys and codes (Salmon)
8 items
1980
1/2
Overlays and cover type codes (Salmon)
39 items
1980
1/3
Sample data forms
10 items
1978-1980
1/4
Fixed plot and understory, original field forms
11 items
1978
1/5
Mensuration and defoliation, original field data
7 items
1978
1/6-9
Western budworm mensuration data, Salmon
98 items
1980
1/10
Projected field costs
5 items
FY 1980
1/11-12
Travel requisitions and expenses
102 items
1978-1980
1/13
Requests for materials
16 items
1978-1980
1/14-17
Data collection material
362 items
1980-1981
1/18
Color morphology project
43 items
1979-1980
1/19
Manuscript notes, bibliographies, etc.
26 items
undated
1/20
Bibliographies
42 items
undated
1/21
Reprints of articles
2 items
1979-1980
1/22
Talk to Pacific branch, Entomological Society of America meeting
5 items
June 1980
1/23
CANUSA: Brochures
5 items
1979
1/24
Correspondence
14 items
1979-1980
1/25
International directory
1 item
1980
1/26-27
Literature supplements
24 items
1979-1981
1/28
Newsletter
10 items
1979-1981
1/29
Program activity schedule
1 item
1979
1/30-32
R & D management inventories 1-3
13 items
1979-1980
B. MS 17 Project
1957-1982
Box/Folder
1/33
Cooperative agreement, University of Idaho and Potlatch Corporation
4 items
1971-1975
1/34-36
Correspondence
82 items
1957-1980
1/37
Budget Records
9 items
1971-1972
1/38
Equipment inventory
2 items
1972-1974
1/39
Agricultural Research Services, information on
13 items
1976-1977
1/40
Notes on data analysis
4 items
1973
1/41
Data collection forms
19 items
undated
1/42
ANOCOV-HLO (variables data)
5 items
1973?
1/43
Mortality cruises
81 items
1978-1980
1/44
Vegetative cover plots
24 items
1974
2/45
Mortality cruises: strip cruise (1 chain)
61 items
1972-1975
2/46
Mortality cruises: Plot mortality
42 items
1971-1976
2/47
Windthrow information
39 items
1971-1973
2/48
Stand maps
53 items
1971-1972
2/49
Coding instructions
8 items
1972
2/50
Specimen collection and identification forms
208 items
1973-1977
2/51
Larval and pupal rearing sheets
96 items
1963-1965
2/52
Insect productivity: Beetle productivity
13 items
1977
2/53
Other insect data: Hemlock looper, Casebearer, Tussock moth, Mountain pine beetle, Douglas fir beetle
5 items
1973
2/54
Sticky traps
11 items
1972-1974
2/55
Sticky trap collections: Scolytus flights
23 items
1972-1974
2/56
Grand fir exam, basal 6 feet, Field notes
84 items
1972
2/57
Stand summaries, # stems, basal area
8 items
1971-1974
2/58
Tree (Bolt) examination forms
225 items
1973-1976
2/59
Tree (Bolt) exams
56 items
1978
2/60
Validation stands
14 items
1975-1976
2/61
Cone and seed insect data of grand fir and subalpine fir
167 items
1971
2/62
Cone and seed insect newsletter
22 items
1958-1983
2/63
Importance value index; Diversity index
4 items
undated
2/64
Cruise summaries
36 items
1977
2/65
Plot cruise data
86 items
1981
2/66
Grand fir felled and examined
29 items
1972-1974
2/67
Research proposals (includes MS 13C and 17B
13 items
1973-1977
2/68
Research proposals, MS 17
4 items
1980
2/69
Summaries of work completed
9 items
1973-1982
C. Shoot Borer
1980-1981
Box/Folder
2/70
Report
1 item
1981
2/71
Figures and tables for report
29 items
1981
2/72-73
Data collection sheets
99 items
1980
2/74
Plantation Records and maps
54 items
1980
D. Log Books
1976-1981
Box/Folder
3/75
Douglas fir tussock moth
1 item
March 1976-November 1977
3/76-79
Mountain pine beetle
7 items
August 1976-August 1981
3/80-81
Spruce budworm
2 items
February 1977-June 1978
3/82
Spruce budworm Instar tests
1 item
1979
3/83
Western spruce budworm
1 item
June-July 1981
E. Other Data Sheets and Research Material
1976-1984
Box/Folder
3/84-85
Wick data sheets: Ground parasitoic study, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington
169 items
1979
3/86
Spruce budworm, Douglas fir tussock moth: Maine, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico
197 items
undated
3/87-88
Instar insecticide tests
231 items
1977
3/89
Computer material for mountain pine beetle
59 items
1979-1980
3/90
Western pine beetle data sheets
110 items
1980
4/91-92
Advanced forest entomology lecture notes
28 items
undated
4/93
Phillips, Thomas W. Ecology and systematics of Pissodes sibling species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). A thesis submitted...for the Doctor of Philosophy degree, State University of New York, Syracuse
1 item
May 1984
4/94
Articles on forest genetics
8 items
1969-1976
4/95
Western spruce budworm, Castrovillo research project
122 items
1978-1980
4/96
Collections: Spruce budworm and Douglas fir tussock moth
142 items
1978
4/97
Forest insects and their tree hosts
32 items
undated
4/98
Forest insects, Notes on
9 items
1965-1986
4/99
Forest entomology laboratory manual
1 item
1962
4/100
Articles on tree borers
8 items
1916-1942
4/101
Key to the genus Scolytus
1 item
1967
4/102
Publications on forest entomology
3 items
1976-1979

Series II. Forest Service Maps, 1951-1972Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
4/103
Boise National Forest, Idaho
1 item
1966
4/104
Cache National Forest, Idaho & Utah
1 item
1962
4/105
Caribou National Forest, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming
1 item
1963
4/106
Carson National Forest, New Mexico
1 item
1960
4/107
Challis National Forest, Idaho
2 items
1965
4/108
Clearwater National Forest, Idaho
4 items
1964
4/109
Coeur d'Alene National Forest, Idaho
5 items
1966
4/110
Colville National Forest, Washington
1 item
1953
4/111
Deschutes National Forest, Oregon
1 item
1961
4/112
Kaniksu National Forest, Idaho, Montana, Washington
9 items
1966-1970
4/113
Nez Perce National Forest, Idaho
4 items
1964-1972
4/114
Payette National Forest, Idaho
11 items
1960-1967
4/115
Salmon National Forest, Idaho
2 items
1956-1966
4/116
Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho
6 items
1954-1967
4/117
St. Joe National Forest, Idaho
6 items
1967-1968
4/118
Teton National Forest, Wyoming
1 item
1964
4/119
Umpqua National Forest, Oregon
1 item
1965
4/120
Assorted school forests, Palouse district
5 items
1967-1970
4/121
Potlatch Forests, Inc.
18 items
1956-1961
4/122
Timber inventory maps
12 items
1951-1960
4/123
Canada (Alberta and Saskatchewan)
2 items
1966-1968
4/124
Miscellaneous maps
5 items
1959-1960

Series II. Molly Stock, 1960-1980Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
4/125
Academic file
51 items
1960-1977
4/126
Zoology 435, Physiology lab
11 items
1968
4/127
Biochemistry
11 items
1970-1971
4/128
Course notebooks, Biochemistry and chemistry
2 items
1970-1973
4/129
Lecture notes, Chemistry 366
16 items
1973
4/130
Places to write
8 items
1971-1972
4/131
Counseling, General information
18 items
1977-1980
4/132
Paper given at National ESA meeting
2 items
1972
5/133
1. Nutrition
4 items
1970-1980
5/134
4. Amino acids
25 items
ca. 1970-1971
5/135
5. DNA
20 items
ca. 1973
5/136
6. RNA
7 items
ca. 1973
5/137
Protein synthesis
21 items
ca. 1973
5/138
Funds: Douglas fir tussock moth
11 items
1976-1978
5/139
Equipment
26 items
1977-1978
5/140
Moths received
13 items
1975
5/141
Douglas fir tussock moth: General data and analysis
14 items
1977
5/142
Papers by Molly Stock
2 items
1976
5/143
Comments and final report, XV Congress, Forest entomology section
12 items
1971
5/144
Defoliator impact paper
14 items
1975-1977
5/145
Notes and research proposals
28 items
1975-1978
5/146
Moth enzyme data
6 items
1976
5/147
Progress report
15 items
1976
5/148
Proposals accepted and rejected
21 items
1972-1978
5/149
Biology paper
5 items
1974-1975
5/150
XV International Congress of Entomology
6 items
1975
5/151
Insect anatomy and physiology course: General
17 items
1977
5/152
Integument
10 items
1977
5/153
Labs
24 items
1977
5/154
Exams
13 items
1977
5/155
Originals of handouts
48 items
1977
5/156
Handouts
48 items
1977
5/157
Biology research projects, Ghana
32 items
1966
5/158
Pheromones
11 items
1973-1977
5/159
Spruce budworm
50 items
1977
5/160
Supplies
22 items
1977

Series IV. Karel Stoszek, 1979-1981Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
5/161
FWR 365, Fundamentals of Forest Protection: Reserve reading list
3 items
1980-1981
5/162
Breeding for disease resistance in forest trees
2 items
1979
5/163
Figures - Succession 1 and 2
4 items
1981
5/164
Class handouts
6 items
1979-1981
5/165
Exams and quizzes
10 items
1979-1981
5/166
Articles on Douglas fir tussock moth
2 items
ca. 1979

Series V. Photographs and Slides, 1961-1973Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
A. Photographic
1961-1973
Box/Folder
5/167
Damaged and diseased trees
12 items
undated
5/168
Damage to western white pine cones. Used in D.L. Williamson M.S. thesis
13 items
1961
5/169
Cone and seed insects
25 items
1961-1973
5/170
Negatives: SYB study area
7 items
1970
5/171
Douglas fir tussock moth
7 items
1971-1973
5/172
Photographs of study areas and wings
21 items
undated
5/173
Negatives of study areas and wings
6 items
undated
5/174
Slides of study areas and wings; also includes charts and graphs
80 items
undated
B. Microscope Slides
1969-1972
Box/Folder
5/175
Field nymphs
3 items
1972
5/176
Substrate
19 items
1971
5/177
Field adults
9 items
1971
5/178
Other locations
17 items
1971
5/179
Wings, Waldport, N. Bend
25 items
1969-1970
5/180
Wing size reduction series
25 items
1970-1971
5/181
S.P.
12 items
1971
5/182
S.P. and cons. eggs
25 items
1971
5/183
Wings, SYB
73 items
1971
5/184
Field nymphs
18 items
1972

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Douglas-fir tussock moth--West (U.S.)
  • Entomologists--Idaho--Correspondence
  • Forest ecology--West (U.S.)
  • Forest insects--West (U.S.)
  • Trees--Diseases and pests
  • Western spruce budworm--British Columbia
  • Western spruce budworm--West (U.S.)

Other Creators

  • Personal Names
    • Schenk, John A.--Archives.
    • Stock, Molly
    • Stoszek, Karel