Document Type
Peer-Review Article
Abstract
A forest management team was organized in the late 1970's by cooperative efforts of Michigan's universities. the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and the USDA Forest Service.The goals were to devise new technologies, transfer available technology, and service and management alternatives to forest land managers in Michigan. The program throughout has emphasized forest management rather than pest management for prevention and control of pests. Dissemination of pest management information has been of importance and new research results have gone directly to land managers for immediate use. The team participates in forest compartmental reviews and helps prescribe management plans for land parcels, thus providing for preventative pest management. Services and management recommendations are provided mostly through forest pest specialists located in the field. They feed back results and problems to researchers and extension specialists of the team for further input. Preventive management information used by by local managers in recent years has nearly paid the cost of the program. Plans are to broaden the team effort by cooperating with organizations and in adjacent states through a computer network system and by other means .
Recommended Citation
Wilson, Louis F.; Mosher, Daniel G.; and Simmons, Gary A.
1983.
"Michigan's Cooperative Forest Pest Management Program, A Team Approach to Improving Forest Management,"
The Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 16
(4)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22543/0090-0222.1471
Available at:
https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol16/iss4/2