Bark Beetle Links Page

First off is the Ministry of Forests' own Forest Practices Code Bark Beetle Management Guidebook, outlining their decision making process and “management” schedules.
and the govenment of B.C.'s Bark Beetle home page also a Provincial-Level Projection of the Current Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak

Mountain pine beetle article in Wikipedia - the the free on-liine encyclopedia.

Canadian Forest Service Mountain Pine Beetle page and it's Mountain Pine Beetle Initiative.

David Suzuki Foundation’s take on the beetle epidemic:
Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak
and a report on ecosystem based solutions to the problem:
Ecosystem-based management of Mountain Pine Beetle
The David Suzuki Foundation, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society and Forest Watch of British Columbia have available for download a recently commissioned report:
Salvaging Solutions: science-based management of BC's pine beetle outbreak (PDF file: 485kb)

The Sierra Club of BC has a new page on the Mountain Pine Beetlewith links to media releases on the issue and A year in the life of the mountain pine beetle, an illustrated look at how the beetles kill trees and factors that affect their success.

Dr. Art Partridge has a great article in Ecoforestry Magazine on insect dynamics:
Mountain Pine Beetles - another look explores the relationship between the beetle, the blue stain fungus, and predators, with implications for stand management.

The Silva Forest Foundation's Documents Library has many documents related to ecosystem based forest management, including:
Mountain Pine Beetle, 1989 (updated 1993) (PDF file: 49kb) which includes material on beetle life cycle and ecology, population phases, and both theoretical and practical aspects of management and control options that exploit weak links in the beetle's population dynamics, and Brief Literature Review of the Douglas-fir Bark Beetle, 2001 (PDF file)

The BC Environmental Network has some reports available for download:
BCEN Beetles documents

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society has published a four page information bulletin on mountain pine beetles. It is available to download from: Mountain Pine Beetle — Setting the Story Straight - or Download (PDF file: 881kb)

The industry association Council of Forest Industries (COFI) is the voice of the BC interior forest industry. It's take on the epidemic and proposed solutions:
Council of Forest Industries Mountain Pine Beetle Task Force

And here is a piece on “Helicopter Logging for Bark Beetle Control” from the MoF - a case studey from the West Kootenay regin of BC.

Another page on insects in local forests, co-sponsored by the Columbia River Trust and Royal BC Museum, can be found at:
Fires and Insects: Natural Forest Disturbances
Check out some of the other links on this page, it's interesting reading.

Some general information about Douglas Fir Bark Beetles:
Douglas-fir Beetle in Idaho, Life, History, Habits and Management Recommendations..

Here is a looooong piece from Idaho on “Beetlemania,”

Images and fact sheet library for the Mountain Pine beetle from Bugwood.

A compilation of Bark Beetle salvage logging press commentary in British Columbia.

A Compilation of Restoration Science - Applying Ecological Principles to Management of Forest ecosystems, a review of scientific literature.