MPB Response Project

[Brian Brademeyer]

Forest Service MPB Response Project Website

(Objections were filed on October 22, 2012)

USFS Review Letter of FotN et al Objection, 11-21-12, 244 kb

USFS Review Letter of BCA et al Objection, 11-21-12, 228 kb

FotN et al MPBR Project Objection, 10-22-12, 4100 kb

BCA et al MPBR Project Objection, 10-22-12, 182 kb

PHAS combined MPBR Objections, 10-22-12, 180 kb

FotN et al MPBR Project DEIS Comments, (no pics) 6-25-12, 896 kb

BCA et al MPBR Project DEIS Comments, 6-25-12, 635 kb

PHAS combined MPBR Project DEIS Comments, 6-25-12, 162 kb

RCJournal LIVE CHAT with Brian Brademeyer

RCJournal LIVE CHAT with Brian Brademeyer--Full Transcript

Background Materials and MPB Outbreak Slideshow

November 22, 2011

MPB Update--July 2011

MPB Update--July 2012

Region-2 Annual Aerial Damage Surveys, 1995-2010, Slideshow

For our German readers: Stuttgarter Zeitung 9-8-11

 

Annotated Bibliography for Forest Managers on Fire-Bark Beetle Inte...

Prepared for USFS Western Wildlands Environmental Threats Assessment Center January 18, 2008
Revised February 25, 2008

TV Documentary: Pine Beetles in the Black Hills

The Forest Service is requesting comments on the scope of a proposed MPB Response Project to pre-authorize treatments of up to 325,000 acres of the Black Hills National Forest, if pine beetle spot outbreaks occur in these areas.

 

The MPB Response Project Scoping Letter provides an overview of the Project proposal.

 

The MPB Response Project Treatment Map shows that the areas proposed for pro-active treatments are not those areas currently experiencing beetle mortality.

 

See the attached Comment Points Memo for suggestions to raise in your comment letters, which should be sent by September 7, 2011.  

 

Sioux Falls Argus Leader Article on MPB Response Project, 11-19-11

FotN etal Mountain Pine Beetle Response Project Comments w/o Figures, 8-29-11, 725 kb

PHAS etal Mountain Pine Beetle Response Project Comments, 9-7-11, 125 kb

BCA etal Mountain Pine Beetle Response Project Comments, 9-7-11, 414 kb

References

Tinker et al 2009 Fire and MPB in Yellowstone, 1.9 mb

GRAPH (shown below): Annual BHNF Fire Acres vs. MPB-Killed Trees, 11-15-11, 18 kb

 

The progression of the current mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreak on the Black Hills National Forest is shown in the map below.  (Click MPB Progression 2005-2010 Map to load full-size PDF into your browser)