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Western Forest Insect Work Conference


Photos from the WFIWC Archives:
Yellowstone National Park

photo of a person spraying oil on a tree infested with mountain pine beetle

"Burning-standing" method of mountain pine beetle control. Fuel oil was sprayed upward on the trunk of a standing, infested lodgepole pine after which the oil was ignited to destroy beetle broods in the bark. Bechler Ranger District, Yellowstone National Park, 1931.(Furniss & Renkin 2003, Figure 14). Coeur d'Alene FIL photo from WFIWC archives.



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