NTDMG464.xml Guide to the USFS Pacific Southwest, Forest Insects Files circa 1965-1983 USFS Pacific Southwest, Forest Insects Files Finding aid prepared by Laura Guedes University of Idaho Library © 2014 Finding aid encoded by Laura Guedes 2014 Finding aid written in English Finding aid based on DACS ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard) University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives MG 464 United States. Forest Service. Pacific Southwest Region USFS Pacific Southwest, Forest Insects Files circa 1965-1983 1 cubic foot Files from the office of John Pierce, Coordinator of the USFS R5, related to the Lodgepole Needleminer Project in Yosemite National Park, the Lindane-Water Administrative Studies, and photo albums depicting insect management in California forests. Special Collections and Archives of the University of Idaho Library. This collection is in English.

The files include correspondence, data sheets, photograph negatives and prints, reports, drafts of projects, projects, and publications related to the Lodgepole Needleminer Project in Yosemite National Park, the Lindane-Water Administrative Studies, and photo albums depicting insect management in California forests.

Apparently, the files came from the office of John Pierce, Coordinator of the United States Forest Service/Pacific Southwest Region (R5)/Forest Insect and Disease Management (FIDM), related to the “Pilot Project to evaluate the use of Orthene Implants to protect the foliage of high value Lodgepole pines from feeding injury by the Lodgepole Needleminer in Yosemite National Park,” conducted from May 1980 to August 1983. This project was developed as a cooperative effort among Yosemite National Park, R-5 FIDM and Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. The leader of the project was Lorne West, from YNP and the scientist of the project, Tom Koerber.

“Lindane Water Administrative Studies” is the short name of the “Administrative Study to Test the Effectiveness and Residual Life of a 1.5% Lindane-Water Spray Against Dendroctonus Brevicomis Lec.,” prepared by Homer J. Hixon, Chief of the Division of Timber Management and Donald W. Lynch, Assistant Director of the Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, in December 12, 1966. This project was conducted from January to April 1967. It was subsequently supplemented in October 20, 1967, by Paul E. Heff, Chief of the Division of Timber Management and D. W. Lynch, through April 1978 to ensure the effectiveness of the treatment against the western pine beetle.

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USFS Pacific Southwest, Forest Insects Files, MG 464, Special Collections and Archives, University of Idaho Library, Moscow, Idaho.

John W. Dale, from the U.S. Forest Service, Forest Pest Management, in San Francisco donated the files to Special Collections and Archives of the University of Idaho Library on February 28, 1986.

Processed by Angelique Holt and Nathan Bender in 2006.

Western Forest Insect Work Conference Archives, MG 417.

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Pierce, John. United States. Forest Service. Pacific Southwest Region. Forest Insects. Forestry and Forestry Products 1 1 Lodgepole Needleminer Pilot Project-Proposal (1980) 1 2 Lodgepole Needleminer Pilot Project-Reports (1981-1983) 1 3 Lodgepole Needleminer Data (1980-1981) 1 4 Drafts of the Lindane-Water Administrative Studies (1966) 1 5 Lindane and Water Study, 1968 (Removed from a 3-ring notebook February 28; 1968). Also the article “Western Pine Beetle and Other Bark Beetles: Lindane Emulsion Effective in California Tests,” by H. B. Teillon, R. Hunt, B. Roettgering, and J. Pierce (Feb. 1973) 1 6 Lindane and Water Study: North Fort – Reaving. Slides and negatives 1 7 Lindane and Water Study: Fort Mason. Photographs and negatives 1 8 Lindane and Water Study: Fort Mason. Photographs and negatives 1 9 Lindane and Water Study: Mixing – North Fork. Photographs and negatives 1 10 Lindane and Water Study: Treatment – North Fork. Photographs and negatives 1 11 Lindane and Water Study: Treatment – North Fork. Photographs and negatives 1 12 Lindane and Water Study: Old Drafts and Odd Notes. 1951-1968 1 13 Western Pine Beetle Administrative Study: McCloud Flats 1967-1968 and Jeffrey Pine Beetle Mountain Meadows. Also a copy of the original Study and of the Supplement 1 14 Lindane and Water Study: Scolytus and Flathead 1 15 Lindane Water Administrative Study, 1968 McCloud Flats, Mountain Meadows, Madison River, Laguna Mountain 1 16 Lindane-Water Study: Bruce Roettgering's Work File. Also a draft of “Lindane and Water Sprays Are Effective Against the Western Pine Beetle and Other Bark Beetles in California Tests,” by H. B. Teillon, R. Hunt, B. Roettgering, and J. Pierce 1 17 Lindane-Water Study: Jeffrey Pine Beetle 1 18 Lindane-Water Study: Western Pine Beetle 1 19 Western Pine Beetle Administrative Study: North Fork, 1967 1 20 Western Pine Beetle Administrative Study: North Fork, 1967 1 21 Western Pine Beetle Administrative Study: North Fork, Data 1 22 Western Pine Beetle Administrative Study: Data Sheets, North Fork, 1967; McCloud Flats, 1967-1968 1 23 Protecting Ponderosa Pine From Bark Beetle Attack by Use of a Lindane-Water Emulsion Spray, by Kenneth M. Swain 1 24 Angeles National Forest. Photograph Albums 1 25 Cleveland National Forest. Photograph Albums 1 26 Inyo National Forest. Photograph Albums 1 27 Lassen National Forest. Photograph Albums 1 28 Los Padres National Forest. Photograph Albums 1 29 Modoc National Forest. Photograph Albums 1 30 San Bernardino National Forest. Photograph Albums 1 31 Sequoia National Forest. Photograph Albums 1 32 Shasta-Trinity National. Forest Photograph Albums 1 33 Sierra National Forest. Photograph Albums 1 34 Stanislaus National Forest. Photograph Albums 1 35 Tahoe National Forest. Photograph Albums 1 36 Yosemite National Forest. Photograph Albums 1 37 Insect Suppression 2. Photograph Albums 1 38 Insect Suppression 2. Photograph Albums (Book II) 1 39 Seed Regeneration Timber Photograph Albums (Book IV) 1 40 Disease Protection. Photograph Albums (Book V) 1 41 California Forests. Photograph Albums (Book VI) 1 42 California Forests. Miscellaneous photos.