Forest Pathology Groups and Links

Here are sites of general interest related to forest pathology and entomology.
Categories:

• Government Agencies
• Scientific Societies and North American Regional Groups
• Universities and Extension
• Mycology
• Web Sites on Specific Disease Types

Government Agencies

• Australia
  • The Commonwealth Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) is Australia’s national science agency, but they have disbanded their forest health section ​[1]​
• Canada
  • Canadian Forest Service
    • Insect and Disease Database
    • 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 good diagnostic and disease guide available as PDF: Common Tree Diseases of British Columbia
  • British Columbia Forest Health
  • Ontario Forest Health Conditions
• Finland
  • I can no longer find a link to Finland’s Metinfo Metsien Terveys (Forest Health Services).  Please inform me if you know.
• New Zealand
  • Scion, formerly Forest Research Institute, is the premier forest research organization in New Zealand.  A key emphasis is protecting forests from pests and diseases
• South Africa
  • South African Tree Protection Co-operative Programme
• Sweden
  • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Forest Mycology and Pathology
• Switzerland
  • Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research: Forest, Birmensdorf
• United Kingdom
  • UK Forest Research, with several forest health resources
  • UK Forestry Commission, Tree Pests and Diseases
• United States
  • US Forest Service
    • National Forest Health Protection page. Shortcuts to regional forest health pages:
      • R1 – Northern Region
      • R2 – Rocky Mountain Region
      • R3 – Southwest Region
      • R4 – Intermountain Region
      • R5 – Pacific Southwest Region
      • R6 – Northwest Region
      • R8 – Southern Region
      • R9 – Eastern Region (Northeastern Area), formerly was rich with forest health information, but has sadly been stripped
      • R10 – Alaska Region
    • Research branch, with links to 8 research stations
  • 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 and working groups in pathology:
  • 7.02.00 Pathology
    • 7.02.01 Root and Stem Rots
    • 7.02.02 Foliage, Shoot and Stem diseases
    • 7.02.03 Vascular Wilt Diseases
    • 7.02.04 Phytoplasma and Virus Diseases
    • 7.02.05 Rusts
    • 7.02.06 Disease/Environment Interactions in Forest Decline
    • 7.02.07 Diseases of Tropical Forest Trees
    • 7.02.09 Phytophthora Diseases on Forest Trees
    • 7.02.10 Pine wilt disease
    • 7.02.11 Parasitic Flowering Plants in Forests
    • 7.02.13 Forest Health in Southern Hemisphere Commercial Plantations
  • 7.03.00 Entomology
    • Several groups cover both insects and pathogens
  • 8.04.00 Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change on Forest Ecosystems
  • International forest pathology mailing list hosted by IUFRO
• Mycological Society of America
• Quebec Society for the Protection of Plants (English version)
• Society of American Foresters

North American Regional Groups

• Southern Forest Health Work Conference (SFHWC)
• 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, Extension, Other

• Forest pathology on Facebook, by Jorge Alberto Cordero Martínez, Postgraduate Student in Phytosanitation (Plant Pathology Orientation) at the Colegio de Postgraduados-Campus, Montecillo, Texcoco, Mexico State (Mexico)
• 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)
• Pennsylvania State University has some nice articles including some on tree diseases
• The Texas Plant Disease Handbook has good coverage of trees in a nice list of diseases, including descriptions and management recommendations.
• University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)
• Resources for forestry students:
  • Scholarships, Resources, and Support Services for Forestry Students
  • Guide to Online Forestry Degrees

Mycology

• Kathie Hodges’ fascinating Mushroom Blog at Cornell University
• 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
• American Type Culture Collection
• Index Nominum Genericorum— a compilation of generic names published for all organisms
• Mycology at Kew Gardens
• Fungal Biodiversity Site at Cornell

Web Sites on Specific Disease Types

• Pitch canker in California
• Root disease management guidebook in British Columbia
• American Chestnut Foundation
• Sudden oak death in California and in Oregon
• Heartrots in Plantation Hardwoods in Indonesia and Southeast Australia
• Hazard Tree Web Page (this valuable resource put together by pathologists in the Eastern Region has been taken down)