Groups and Links | Forest Pathology

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
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 super online diagnostic and disease guide: Common Tree Diseases of British Columbia
- British Columbia Forest Health
- Ontario Forest Health Conditions
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
- Scion, also known as New Zealand Forest Research Institute, is the premier forest research organization in New Zealand. A key emphasis is Managing Forestry Risk & Climate Change
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 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
- 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:
Mycological Society of America
Quebec Society for the Protection of Plants (English version)
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, 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)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Forest Pathology and Dendrology Group
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
Saskatchewan Dutch Elm Disease Association
Hazard Tree Web Page (this valuable resource has been taken down; please contact the Leader of Northeastern Area, Forest Health Protection and ask to get it back! mbohne@fs.fed.us)