Energy, Mines, and Resources
Forestry
Forest Health
We have a new series of brochures highlighting various insects and diseases that are currently, or that could be potential forest pests in the Yukon.
Featured brochures:
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Aspen Serpentine Leafminer The aspen serpentine leafminer (Phyllocnistis populiella) is a defoliator of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) and is common throughout the host range in Yukon. The leafminer’s activities were first recorded in the early 1950s along the Alaska Highway. Find out more... download this brochure ( |
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Spruce Bark Beetle The spruce beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, is a natural disturbance agent throughout the geographical range of spruce (Picea spp.) in North America. At endemic levels, spruce beetle normally infest downed trees, logging debris, decked timber, dying or stressed trees and only occasionally cause tree mortality. Find out more... download this brochure ( |
2010 Forest Health Report
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The Canadian Forest Service and Yukon Forest Management Branch work cooperatively on annual Forest Health Surveys. Canadian Forest Service experts collect and analyze forest health information about insect, disease and climatic damage from throughout the Yukon and prepare a report of their findings.
Download a printable version of the 2010 Forest Health Report 
3 MB
Contact Us:
Mile 918 Alaska Highway
Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2C6
Phone: 867.456.3999 / 1.800.661.0408 ext. 3999
Fax: 867.667.3138
E-mail: forestry@gov.yk.ca
