Southern Pine Beetle Response in New York��

NAFSE Workshop “Managing pitch pine under the threat of southern pine beetle”

April 28, 2022

Presented by Jessica Cancelliere

Contributors: Rob Cole, Jason Denham, Kevin Dodds, Molly Hassett, Nate Hudson, Polly Weigand, John Wernet�

Long Island 2014

~10,000 acres of damage

Connetquot River State Park

K Dodds, USFS

Incident Command

Suffolk County

Town of Southampton

Town of Babylon

Cornell Cooperative Extension

NYS Agriculture & Markets

National Park Service

US Fish & Wildlife Service

NYS Parks

APHIS

Dartmouth College

LI Invasive Species Mgmt Area

Timeline: Year 1

Aerial Survey

Ground Survey

Suppression

Monitoring

Training

Research

Outreach

Prioritization

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• Landscape prioritization
• Intensive survey/monitoring
• Stand-level prevention through silviculture
• Suppression
• Outreach

Landscape Prioritization

ANYONE willing to go to Long Island!

Monitoring & Early Detection

2015-2016

2021

Cut-and-leave suppression

Bark scoring

Winter suppression

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Outreach

Rocky Point Demo Forest

Research

• Assessment of winter suppression
• Color change study
• Regeneration plots
• Roadside hazard survey
• SPB winter mortality
• SPB in white pine

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Restoration

‘I Love My Park Day’ Replanting

Sarnoff Preserve, Long Island

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Understory treatments with forestry mower

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Untreated

Treated

3 months post treatment

Funding

• USFS SPB Prevention and Restoration
• State EPF money
• USFS Suppression grants

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• For Municipalities or Counties:
• Urban and Community Forestry Grants
• Community Recovery Grants

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Thank you!

Jessica Cancelliere,

DEC Bureau of Invasive Species

& Ecosystem Health -

Forest Health Diagnostic Lab

jessica.cancelliere@dec.ny.gov

foresthealth@dec.ny.gov

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