Executive Summary

• Main Authors: Yukon Forest, Rod Garbutt
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Dezadeash; Dezadeash Lake; Kluane Lake; Kusawa Lake; Mush Lake; Shakwak Trench; Talbot Arm; Yukon; Kluane National Park
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.123.8096; http://www.emr.gov.yk.ca/forestry/pdf/forest_health_report_03.pdf

The annual survey of forest pests in the Yukon was conducted in July 2003. Attacks from the spruce bark beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, in southwest Yukon resulted in white spruce mortality on 41 641 ha, down from last year’s 69 400 ha. The most intensive activity is south of Mush Lake in Kluane Na...