2002 North Central Forest Pest Workshop

Potosi , Missouri

Pictures from Field Trip


Discussing oak decline management.
 


Rob Lawrence demonstrating how
traps are used to monitor red oak borer.

     

Leo gets a look at R.O.B. damage
in an oak stem cross section.
 

Close-up of R.O.B. galleries in oak.
     

Lunch Break at Johnson
Shut-ins State Park.
 

Another view at Johnson
Shut-ins State Park.
     

Oak Decline on the Mark Twain
National Forest.
 

Ross Melick talks about Oak Decline
on the Mark Twain National Forest.
     

Johann Bruhn talks about the role
of Armillaria in Oak Decline.
 

Armillaria mushrooms were so abundant that even entomologists could find them!
     

Close-up of the Armillaria fruiting bodies.
  

At the Bixby Mill.
     

Oak logs at Bixby Mill.

 

Red Oak Borer damage in logs.
     

Bruce Moltzan points to R.O.B.
defect in cut logs.
 

Examining boards at the Bixby Mill.

     

Oak cants at Bixby Mill
 


Oak cants with grade loss due to
Red Oak Borer.

     
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