scholarly journals Implementing Forest Pest Management Practices in the USA: Problems and Solutions

1985 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-246
Author(s):  
Logan A. Norris
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Education Legislation ◽  
Animal Damage ◽  
Intensive Forest Management ◽  
Forest Pest Management ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
The Usa

Implementation of effective pest management strategies in intensive forestry is impeded by educational, technical, administrative, and legal problems. Some of the immediate problems can be solved through improved forestry education and research. Solution of the educational and technical problems, together with relief in the administrative and legal areas, will improve the integration of pest management into intensive forest management programs. Key words: Integrated pest management, weeds, insects, disease, animal damage, education, legislation.

scholarly journals Assessing the Integrated Pest Management Practices of Pennsylvania Nursery Operations

HortScience ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. Sellmer ◽  
Nancy Ostiguy ◽  
Kelli Hoover ◽  
Kathleen M. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Mail Survey ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Pest Monitoring ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Cost

A mail survey was conducted in 2000 to determine awareness and use of integrated pest management (IPM) practices by nurseries in Pennsylvania. Survey participants were randomly selected from the Pennsylvania Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, list of certified nurseries. Participants answered questions pertaining to awareness of common practices, frequency that IPM practices were employed, and specifics on monitoring and pest management decision-making processes. Responses were analyzed by Cluster Analysis (SPSS Inc., Chicago), which resulted in the formation of three distinct segments. The segments were labeled “IPM Savvy” (nursery managers who were more likely to employ IPM practices); “Part-time IPMers” (nursery managers who employed some IPM strategies and were interested in future adoption of IPM practices); and “Reluctant IPMers” (nursery managers who were least likely to employ IPM strategies). The “Part-time IPMers” and “Reluctant IPMers” segments represent a substantial part of the industry (51%), who continues to have concerns about the cost, efficacy, and implementation of IPM practices into their businesses. Overall, Pennsylvania growers are aware of IPM practices; however, maintaining permanent records of pests identified and pest management strategies employed remain low. Continued education is warranted to enhance pest monitoring skills and recordkeeping along with demonstrable evidence to the cost effectiveness and marketing benefits that the implementation of IPM practices offer the nursery operators.

scholarly journals Forest pests and their management in the Anthropocene

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew P. Ayres ◽  
María J. Lombardero
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Forest Pest ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Forest Pests ◽  
The Core ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Forest Pest Management ◽  
Management Plans

Forest managers are facing unprecedented challenges from rapid changes in forest pests. The core causes are changes in climate, land use, and global distributions of organisms. Due to invasions and range expansions by pests, and propagation of nonnative trees, managers are increasingly confronted with pest problems outside their range of experience. There is a need to adapt pest management practices more quickly and efficiently than is possible when managers work in isolation and mainly learn by trial and error. Here we identify general tactics for adaptation of forest pest management in the Anthropocene: growth and application of practical theory; improved biosecurity against future invasions; improved monitoring, prediction, and mitigation; increased sharing of knowledge among regions, countries, and continents; management plans that anticipate continuing change; improved assessment of costs, benefits, and risks of possible responses to new potential pests; assessment of system responses to pest management decisions so that subsequent decisions are increasingly better informed; and improved understanding of the couplings between forests, forest management, and socioeconomic systems. Examples of success in forest management can aid in other sectors (e.g., agriculture, pastoralism, fisheries, and water resources) that are similarly important to our environmental security and similarly challenged by global change.

scholarly journals Quantifying the effects of multiple land management practices, land cover change, and wildfire on the California landscape carbon budget with an empirical model

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0251346
Author(s):  
Alan V. Di Vittorio ◽  
Maegen B. Simmonds ◽  
Peter Nico
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Carbon Accumulation ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Data Uncertainty ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Intensive Forest Management

The effectiveness of land-based climate mitigation strategies is generally estimated on a case-by-case basis without considering interactions with other strategies or influencing factors. Here we evaluate a new, comprehensive approach that incorporates interactions among multiple management strategies, land use/cover change, wildfire, and climate, although the potential effects of climate change are not evaluated in this study. The California natural and working lands carbon and greenhouse gas model (CALAND) indicates that summing individual practice estimates of greenhouse gas impacts may underestimate emission reduction benefits in comparison with an integrated estimate. Annual per-area estimates of the potential impact of specific management practices on landscape emissions can vary based on the estimation period, which can be problematic for extrapolating such estimates over space and time. Furthermore, the actual area of implementation is a primary factor in determining potential impacts of management on landscape emissions. Nonetheless, less intensive forest management, avoided conversion to urban land, and urban forest expansion generally create the largest annual per-area reductions, while meadow restoration and forest fuel reduction and harvest practices generally create the largest increases with respect to no management. CALAND also shows that data uncertainty is too high to determine whether California land is a source or a sink of carbon emissions, but that estimating effects of management with respect to a baseline provides valid results. Important sources of this uncertainty are initial carbon density, net ecosystem carbon accumulation rates, and land use/cover change data. The appropriate choice of baseline is critical for generating valid results.

scholarly journals Current Use and Potential for Implementing Forest Management Practices in Intensive Forest Management in the U.S.A.

1985 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Pest Control ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Control Technology ◽  
Forest Management Practices ◽  
Intensive Forest Management

Pests annually cause immense damage. To reduce these losses, foresters need to manage forests and use available pest control technology. Today, we have the means but are restricted by economic, political, and public pressures. These pressures will continue to influence how we manage. As wood products come from a shrinking land base and resource values climb, pest losses will be less tolerable, yet restrictions, such as legislation and litigation, will limit needed forest and pest management.

scholarly journals Farmers’ Pest Management Practices of Stored Faba Bean and their Implication to Food Security in Farta District, North West Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 665-674
Author(s):  
Wondale Endshaw ◽  
Berhanu Hiruy
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Faba Bean ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Insect Pests ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
North West ◽  
Croton Macrostachyus ◽  
North West Ethiopia ◽  
Faba Beans ◽  
Grain Losses

Faba bean is the most important legume grown in Ethiopia. But, insect pests have been causing its substantial loss under farmers’ storages. A survey to assess the farmers’ pest protection practices of stored faba bean was conducted in its selected major growing peasant associations of the Farta District from 4 January 2019 – 15 May 2020. Semi-structured questionnaires and farmers’ participatory discussion were used to conduct the study. Accordingly, the majority of farmers (66.7%) harvested their grain in usual time (in December) fearing insect pests infestation. A substantial proportion of the farmers (25%) used a combination of cultural and botanical methods, followed by botanicals (20.83%) for grains protection. Eucalyptus globlus, Croton macrostachyus and Otostegia tomentosa were the three most commonly used botanicals and suggested to be potent. Threshing was done most commonly by livestock (66.7%), followed by beating with sticks (25%) both of which are not recommended as they might lead to grain losses. The insect infestation level was high in threshed and un-threshed forms of faba beans after 3 and 7 months storage periods, respectively. Consequently, the farmers’ traditional practices were ineffectual for storing beans for longer periods. Therefore, planning pest management strategies of stored beans are desirable.

scholarly journals What difference do data make? Data management and social change

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 971-985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan E. Currie ◽  
Britt S. Paris ◽  
Joan M. Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Data Governance ◽  
Geographic Scale ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Usa

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to expand on emergent data activism literature to draw distinctions between different types of data management practices undertaken by groups of data activists. Design/methodology/approach The authors offer three case studies that illuminate the data management strategies of these groups. Each group discussed in the case studies is devoted to representing a contentious political issue through data, but their data management practices differ in meaningful ways. The project Making Sense produces their own data on pollution in Kosovo. Fatal Encounters collects “missing data” on police homicides in the USA. The Environmental Data Governance Initiative hopes to keep vulnerable US data on climate change and environmental injustices in the public domain. Findings In analysing the three case studies, the authors surface how temporal dimensions, geographic scale and sociotechnical politics influence their differing data management strategies. Originality/value The authors build upon extant literature on data management infrastructure, which primarily discusses how these practices manifest in scientific and institutional research settings, to analyse how data management infrastructure is often crucial to social movements that rely on data to surface political issues.

Bottom-Up Forces in Agroecosystems and Their Potential Impact on Arthropod Pest Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Han ◽  
Anne-Violette Lavoir ◽  
Cesar Rodriguez-Saona ◽  
Nicolas Desneux
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Landscape Characteristics ◽  
Arthropod Pest

Bottom-up effects are major ecological forces in crop–arthropod pest–natural enemy multitrophic interactions. Over the past two decades, bottom-up effects have been considered key levers for optimizing integrated pest management (IPM). Irrigation, fertilization, crop resistance, habitat manipulation, organic management practices, and landscape characteristics have all been shown to trigger marked bottom-up effects and thus impact pest management. In this review, we summarize current knowledge on the role of bottom-up effects in pest management and the associated mechanisms and discuss several key study cases showing how bottom-up effects practically promote natural pest control. Bottom-up effects on IPM also contribute to sustainable intensification of agriculture in the context of agricultural transition and climate change. Finally, we highlight new research priorities in this important area. Together with top-down forces (biological control), future advances in understanding ecological mechanisms underlying key bottom-up forces could pave the way for developing novel pest management strategies and new optimized IPM programs. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Entomology, Volume 67 is January 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

scholarly journals Weed Mapping as a Component of Integrated Pest Management in Cranberry Production

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 302-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Jane Else ◽  
Hilary A. Sandler ◽  
Scott Schluter
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Weed Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Control Program ◽  
Vaccinium Macrocarpon ◽  
Weed Mapping ◽  
Mapping System ◽  
Mapping Systems

A system of mapping weed infestations in cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.) was developed that enables growers to incorporate integrated pest management practices into their weed control program. This system provides growers with information on the location of weeds and the area of weed patches, but differs from other weed mapping systems in that information on control priorities is included on the maps. Weed management efforts can then be directed to the most economically damaging weeds first. The mapping system also provides growers with a permanent record that can be used to communicate with staff and to evaluate weed management strategies.

scholarly journals Biogeographical Patterns of Herbivore Arthropods Associated with Chenopodium quinoa Grown along the Latitudinal Gradient of Chile

Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 2811
Author(s):  
Rodrigo A. Chorbadjian ◽  
María I. Ahumada ◽  
Francisco Urra ◽  
Mario Elgueta ◽  
Todd M. Gilligan
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Latitudinal Gradient ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Chenopodium Quinoa ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Sustainable Pest Management ◽  
Production Area ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Unique Species

Identifying the particular guilds of herbivore arthropods that affect the production of crops is key to developing sustainable pest-management strategies; however, there is incomplete information about the identity of herbivore arthropods that could potentially damage the production of both highland and lowland quinoa landraces grown in Chile. By both reviewing the literature and conducting field collections across a large latitudinal gradient, we generated an updated list of 43 herbivore arthropods associated with quinoa production in Chile. In general, most species are polyphagous feeders, and only seven are specialists. The number and identity of species varied in relation with the latitude, such that four distinctive assemblages of herbivores were identified, each containing 32, 27, 34, and 22 species between latitudes 18–26, 26–32, 32–40, and 40–44° S, respectively. The most northern production area (18–26° S) is affected by nine unique species, including the major quinoa pest Eurysacca quinoae Povolný (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Similarly, the central area (32–40° S) contains four unique species, including Eurysacca media Povolný (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) and Orthotylus flavosparsus (Sahlberg) (Hemiptera: Miridae). The particular species assemblages described here will help further development of local pest-management practices.

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