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A.D. Hopkins, far right, in the Black Hills, SD, in July 1902. Others from left: Hopkins' employee, Jack Webb, and Pathologist Hermann Von Schrank and his assistant. Hopkins had just become Head of the newly created Division of Forest Insect Investigations, USDA, after 12 years at WV University. Webb, who studied under Hopkins, was the first college-trained forest entomologist in America. At the request of Gifford Pinchot, Hopkins was investigating a bark beetle outbreak in ponderosa pine. He referred to it as "the pine-destroying beetle of the Black Hills," shortening it later to "the Black Hills beetle." He described it as Dendroctonus ponderosae; it is now known as the mountain pine beetle and infests several pine species in the western United States and western Canada (photo from Burke 1946). (Furniss 1997, Fig. 2).

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