Forest Insect And Disease Conditions In The United States 1978

Excerpt from Forest Insect and Disease Conditions in the United States, 1978 Fusiform rust is now present in 10 Southern States, where approximately 100 million board feet of timber is lost annually to the disease. Infection of nursery stock has been controlled with a fungicide. The number of plantations affected by pitch canker in Florida has increased but there has been a decline in the severity of the disease throughout the South. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The report focuses on the 20 major insects and diseases that annually cause defoliation and mortality in forests of the United States. This 2013 edition contains updated charts, tables, and maps, plus, it provides a national summary of the major changes and status of these 20 forest pests. "