Utah Bark Beetles and Watersheds Workshop:
Impacts on the Hydrologic Cycle and Water Quality: What have we learned?
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Salt Lake City, UT
Resources for participants
Contact info - workshop presenters
Tim Bardsley, WWA - wwa.bardsley@gmail.com
Barbara Bentz, USFS RMRS and USU - bbentz@fs.fed.us
- USFS homepage
- RMRS/USU Bark Beetles Research webpage
Jeff Deems, WWA and NSIDC - jeffrey.deems@noaa.gov
- NSIDC homepage
Eric Gordon, WWA - eric.s.gordon@colorado.edu
- WWA Beetles, Water and Climate webpages
Jeff Lukas, WWA - lukas@colorado.edu
Evan Pugh, University of Colorado - evan.pugh@colorado.edu
- Research webpage
Chuck Rhoades, USFS RMRS - crhoades@fs.fed.us
- Research webpage
Additional Bark Beetle Web Resources
USFS Western Bark Beetle Strategy: Human Safety, Recovery and Resiliency (PDF)
USFS Northern (1) and Intermountain (4) Regions Forest Health homepage
- links to Forest Conditions reports and Aerial Insect & Disease Detection Survey maps
USFS Rocky Mountain Region (6) Bark Beetle homepage
USFS Forests to Faucets Initiative
Selected References on Bark Beetles
These are some of the most useful research summaries in the respective topic areas. See the Beetles, Water, and Climate References page for a more comprehensive list of references.
Overall Background on Bark Beetles
Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Western North America: Causes and Consequences
Bentz, B., ed., 2009: University of Utah Press. Note: The full report is not available online and must be ordered through the link above; hardcopies are $5 each.
Bark Beetles and Water Impacts
Impacts of the mountain pine beetle infestation on the hydrologic cycle and water quality: A symposium report and summary of the latest science
Lukas, J. and Gordon, E., 2010: Intermountain West Climate Summary 6:4 (May 2010), Western Water Assessment.
Bark Beetles and Climate
Bentz B.J., Régnière, J., Fettig, C.J. et al., 2010. Climate change and bark beetles of the western United States and Canada: direct and indirect effects. BioScience 60, 602–13.
Bark Beetles and Fire
Fire and bark beetle interactions
Gibson, K., Negron, J. F. 2009. In: Hayes, J. L.; Lundquist, J. E., comps. The Western Bark Beetle Research Group: Proceedings of a symposium at the 2007 SAF conference. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-784. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station: pp 51-70.
