BARK BEETLE LINKS:

Photographs

Mountain pine beetle in British Columbia
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/bbphotos.htm

Bark Beetles
http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/catsubject.cfm?cat=4

Beetle Information

MPB Forest Insect and Disease Leaflet (FIDL):
http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/nr/fid/fidls/fidl2.htm

Spruce beetle FIDL
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/fidls/sprucebeetle/sprucebeetle.htm

Southern pine beetle internet control center (SPBICC)
http://whizlab.isis.vt.edu/servlet/sf/spbicc/topic.html?topic=home

Forest Service

Forest Health Protection
http://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/

Other FS labs studying western bark beetles:

Flagstaff
http://www.rmrs.nau.edu/lab/4156/

Ft. Collins
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/landscapes/

Davis
http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/programs/chemical_ecology_of_insects/

Fire resources

USFS Fire Science Lab
http://firelab.org/

Fire Models - Behave plus, FARSITE, FlamMap, etc

(Note: click on DOWNLOAD link, bottom far-left column) 
http://fire.org/

 

Climate resources

Western Regional Climate Center
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/CLIMATEDATA.html

Climate Simulation
http://www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/cfs-scf/science/technologies/biosim_e.html

Biology, Ecology and Mangement of Western Bark Beetles

Rocky Mountain Research Station and the USDA Forest Service

Webmaster: Jim Vandygriff