Western Forest Insect Work Conference Archives, 1909-1917

Proceedings, planning materials, schedules, notes, and correspondence, includes other documents, filed in chronological order within the proceedings (boxes 1 and 2). They are: "Important Forest Insect Outbreaks in Western North America during [...]", 1958, 1959, and 1963; "History and Goals of the WFIWC", 1974; a review of the "WFIWC Committees and After Hour Activities of Conference Members", by Dick Washburn, 1984; "In Honor of Ralph C. Hall: a Commemorative Edition of My Recollections", by H. E. Burke, 1993; "Report of the WFIWC History Committee", 1997.

The files of the Common Names Committee (box 3), include folders for committee work, 1955-1991; Work Conference history (formed in 1949), constitution and summary of meeting sites and dates through 1955, proceedings of the WFIWC 1949 (handwritten), 1950, 1951, 1952, Secretary's notes on 1953 conference, 1957, 1961 through 1969, 1980. These files came from the office of Torolf R. Torgerson, USDA Forest Service, LaGrande, OR.

The Larch Casebearer Files (boxes 6 and 7) are arranged alphabetically by author. It contains references to the larch casebearer, a defoliator of western larch in Idaho and environs. The insect is native to Europe, but was discovered near St Maries, ID in 1957. These references were obtained to assist studies at the Forestry Sciences Laboratory by personnel on Malcolm M. Furniss' Research Work Unit in the late 1970's. The files are referenced in a bibliography by R.E. Denton (USDA General Technical Report INT-52, 1979).