Forest Health Web Sites

Government Agencies

• Australia
  • Ensis Forest Biosecurity and Protection (Ensis joins Australia and New Zealand agencies)
• Canada
• Canadian Forest Service
  • Forest health page
  • Atlantic Forestry Centre, Fredericton, New Brunswick
  • Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
  • Laurentian Forestry Centre, Sainte-Foy, Quebec
  • Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
  • Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, B.C., has a very nice forest pathology site that focuses in part on root and butt rots important in the Northwest, and includes a super online diagnostic and disease guide: Common Tree Diseases of British Columbia
  • Forest health research programs in Canadian Forest Service
• British Columbia, Ministry of Forests, Forest Practices Code Guidebooks
• Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
• Finland
  • Finland's Metinfo Metsien Terveys (Forest Health Services) including basic facts, glossary, and an online diagnosis engine, no longer in English (Finnish)
• New Zealand
  • Ensis Forest Biosecurity and Protection (Ensis joins Australia and New Zealand agencies)
• South Africa
  • South African Tree Pathology Co-operative Programme
• Sweden
  • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Forest Mycology and Pathology
• Switzerland
  • Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf
• United Kingdom
  • UK Forestry Commission Plant Health Page
• United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization, forestry page
• United States
  • US Forest Service
    • National Forest Health Protection page. Shortcuts to regional forest health pages:
      • Northeastern Area, links to many online publications and other resources
      • R1 - Northern Region
      • R2 - Rocky Mountain Region
      • R3 - Southwest Region
      • R4 - Intermountain Region
      • R5 - Pacific Southwest Region
      • R6 - Northwest Region
      • R8 - Southern Region
      • R10 - Alaska Region
    • Research branch, with links to 8 research stations
    • Forest pathology pages by Brian Geils of the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Flagstaff AZ, with special, very useful sections on mistletoes and rusts (for instance, online literature searches)
  • Colorado
    • Colorado State Forest Service tree pest publications
  • Minnesota
    • Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources tree care
  • Oregon
    • Oregon's Department of Forestry forest health page

Scientific Societies

• American Phytopathological Society (APS) and APS Forest Pathology Committee
• Canadian Phytopathological Society
• Entomological Society of America
• International Society of Arboriculture
• International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO divisions or units in pathology:
  • 7.01.00 Impacts of air pollution and climate change on forest ecosystems
  • 7.02.00 Pathology
  • 7.02.01 Root and butt rots
  • 7.02.02 Foliage, shoot and stem diseases
  • 7.02.03 Vascular wilt diseases
  • 7.02.04 Phytoplasma and virus diseases of forest trees
  • 7.02.05 Rusts of forest trees
  • 7.02.06 Disease/environment interactions in forest decline
  • 7.02.07 Diseases of tropical forest trees
  • 7.02.08 World directory of forest pathologists and entomologists
  • 7.02.09 Phytophthora diseases on forest trees
  • 7.02.10 Pine wilt disease
  • 7.02.11 Parasitic flowering plants in forests
  • 7.03.12 Alien invasive species and international trade
• Mycological Society of America
• Quebec Society for the Protection of Plants
• Society of American Foresters

North American Regional Groups

• Southwide Forest Disease Workshop (SWFDW)
• Northeastern Forest Pathology Workshop (NEFPW)
• Northeastern Forest Pest Council (NEFPC)
• North Central Forest Pest Workshop (NCFPW)
• Great Plains Tree Pest Council (GPTPC)
• Western International Forest Disease Work Conference (WIFDWC)
• Western International Forest Insect Work Conference (WIFIWC)
• California Forest Pest Council (CFPC)

Universities and Extension

• Tree Pests and Disease course taught by William Livingston at University of Maine
• Diseases of Forest and Shade Trees course taught by Robert Blanchette at University of Minnesota
• Web page of Thomas Harrington, Iowa State University
• Web page of Dale Berghdahl at University of Vermont
• The Bugwood Network at University of Georgia (online documents and photos)
• Fact sheets from Pennsylvania State University
• The Texas Plant Disease Handbook has good coverage of trees in a nice list of diseases, including descriptions and management recommendations.
• The forest pathology section of the Plant Pathology Internet Guidebook has lots more forest pathology links.
• Ornamental Pathologist's Internet Guide at North Carolina State University
• University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Forest Pathology and Dendrology Group

Mycology

• The WWW Virtual Library Mycology Page - Kathie Hodges' ultimate catalog of mycological resources on the net.
• A few chapters of Bryce Kendrick's The Fifth Kingdom have been adapted to the web and others have been supplemented with online photographs.
• This page at the Univ. Wisconsin - La Crosse leads to lots of photos of forest fungi.
• Fungal databases at the Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, USDA
• Fungal databases at Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Search engine for Canadian culture collections
• American Type Culture Collection
• Index Nominum Genericorum-- a compilation of generic names published for all organisms covered by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
• Mycology at Kew Gardens
• Fungal Biodiversity Site at Cornell
• A great online book on fungi in culture, by Dave Malloch: Moulds: Isolation, Cultivation, Identification

Web Sites on Specific Disease Types

• The Mistletoe Center, maintained by Brian Geils
• Pitch canker in California
• Tree bark and canker site at University of West Virginia
• Root disease management guidebook in British Columbia
• American Chestnut Foundation
• Sudden oak death in California and in Oregon
• Exotic Pests: Online conference on risks of exotic forest pests and their impact on trade
• Exotic Forest Pest Information for North America (EXFOR)
• Heartrots in Plantation Hardwoods in Indonesia and Southeast Australia
• Saskatchewan Dutch Elm Disease Association
• Hazard Tree Web Page