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(54) The Mississippi Comprehensive Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Program
Andrew J. Londo, John D. Kushla, Stephen G. Dicke, Timothy A. Traugott, John B. Auel, James Meeker, Randal Romedy
Session: Concurrent session C4: Forestry
The Southern Pine Beetle (SPB) (Dendroctonus frontalis) is the most damaging of all pests in the southern forests, resulting in millions of dollars of timber damage region wide annually. In response to this threat, the US Forest Service, Southern Region Forest Health Protection, initiated a region wide project to reduce the threat of the SPB in 2001.
The Mississippi project is unique in that it combines the resources of the MSU Extension Service, with the Mississippi Forestry Commission, and US Forest Service to educate landowners, loggers, and professional foresters about SPB biology and management. Forest stand management activities which reduce the threat of the SPB are also discussed in these educational programs. In addition, a pine thinning cost share program has been initiated to further the over goal of increasing the number of acres thinned on the ground. The overall project will be presented with program success, and future directions. Ways in which other state extension forestry and natural resources programs can tap into this and other state funding sources will be discussed.
Andrew Londo
Department of Forestry
Mississippi State University
Box 9681
MS State, MS, 39762
Phone: (662) 325-8003
Fax: (662) 325-0027
Email: ajLondo@cfr.msstate.edu
John Kushla
NE MS Research and Extension Center
Box 1690
Verona MS, 28879
Phone:( 662) 566-2201
Fax: (662) 566-4969
Email: jdkushla@ext.msstate.edu
Stephen Dicke
Central MS Research and Extension Center
1327 Springs Rd.
Raymond, MS 39154
Phone: (601) 857-2284
Fax: (601) 857-2358
Email: steved@ext.msstate.edu
Glenn Hughes
Coastal Research and Extension Center
216 Shelby St. Suite A
Purvis MS., 3947
Phone: (601) 794-0671
Fax: (601) 794-0676
Email: ghughes@ext.msstate.edu
Tim Traugott
Department of Forestry
Mississippi State University
50 E. Pecan St., Suite B
Grenada, MS. 38901
Phone: (662) 226-6000
Fax: (662) 227-8487
Email: timt@ext.msstate.edu
John Auel
Box 9681
MS State, MS, 39762
Phone: (662) 325-7948
Fax: (662) 325-0027
Email: ajLondo@cfr.msstate.edu
James Meeker
USDA Forest Service
Forest Health Protection
2500 Shreveport Highway
Pineville LA, 71360
Phone: (318) 473-7284
Fax: (318) 473-7117
Email: jrmeeker@fs.fed.us
Randall Romedy
Mississippi Forestry Commission
301 N. Lamar, Suite 300
Jackson, MS. 39201
Phone: (601) 359-1386
Fax: (601) 359-1349
Email: rromedy@mfc.state.ms.us