Title: Identify insects, diseases, and animal pests common to area forests.
Course: Forestry Management, Advanced (18502-II) > Section: Protecting the Forest

Identification should include, but is not limited to,

- Asian long-horned beetle
- chestnut blight
- Dutch elm disease
- emerald ash borer
- gypsy moth
- hemlock woolly adelgid
- southern pine beetle
- white pine blister rust
- white pine weevil.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How do insects, diseases, and pests affect the quality of timber?
- How will the emerald ash borer play a role in the changing of forests?
- How will the presence of the hemlock woolly adelgid affect the ecosystem?
- How has chestnut blight changed the Virginia forest?