A Comment on “Management for Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak Suppression: Does Relevant Science Support Current Policy?”

摘要: There are two general approaches for reducing the negative impacts of mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, on forests. Direct control involves short-term tactics designed to address current infestations by manipulating beetle populations, and includes use fire, insecticides, semiochemicals, sanitation harvests, or a combination these treatments. Indirect is preventive, reduce probability severity future within treated areas stand, forest and/or landscape conditions number susceptible host trees through thinning, prescribed burning, alterations age classes species composition. We emphasize that ―outbreak suppression‖ not intent objective management strategies implemented in western United States, clear, descriptive language important when assessing merits various treatment strategies.