There are two main types of waterway markers designed to assist boaters in navigation and accident prevention. "Regulatory buoys" are designed to identify areas with speed limits or where boats are not allowed. "Navigation aids" are designed to…
Your Land, Your Legacy
The management decisions made by small private woodland owners collectively shape the forested landscape of Wisconsin. Due to the large impact that individual woodland owners have on the landscape, management of private…
Trees are damaged by a variety of weather events including storms, drought and flooding. Chemicals like pesticides and salt also harm trees. Healthy trees are better able to recover from these stress events.
Red pine pocket decline and mortality is a disease of plantation-grown red pine. The most likely trees to show symptoms of this syndrome are 30- to 45-year-old red pines in thinned plantations. Studies to identify the reasons why certain…
Learn if your property is at risk, how to reduce the spread of oak wilt in a forested area, how to know if a tree has oak wilt and much more.
Distribution
Oak wilt is widespread in southern Wisconsin, but in much of northern Wisconsin it is…
European spongy moths were accidentally introduced into Massachusetts in 1869 by an amateur entomologist. Since then, spongy moths have defoliated millions of acres of trees in forests and urban areas in at least 20 states and the Washington D.C.…
The forest tent caterpillar is an important leaf-eating (defoliating) caterpillar in Wisconsin. Some people call forest tent caterpillars "army worms" because as they travel across the ground they look like marching soldiers.
Distribution
Forest…
Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) is an invasive, wood-boring beetle that kills ash trees (Fraxinus spp.) by eating the tissues under the bark. Native to northeastern Asia, emerald ash borer (EAB) was first detected in the United States in…
Beech bark disease is a major threat to American beech (Fagus grandifolia) in eastern North America. The disease is the result of an interaction between an insect (a scale) and a fungus (Neonectria) and it only happens when both are present.
Bark and ambrosia beetles (family Curculionidae, subfamily Scolytinae) are a diverse group of wood-boring beetles found in every forest type across the world. The United States and Canada are home to approximately 600 species of bark and ambrosia…