Western Bark Beetle Strategy Results
In Fiscal Year 2012, the Forest Service made significant progress in implementing the strategy.
- Mitigation efforts resulted in a total of 287,064 treated unified acres across the three goals (safety, resilience and recovery).
- In addition, 618 miles of roads and 638 miles of trails had hazard trees removed to improve human safety.
- All the activities resulted in 313.1 million board feet of timber sold and 206,478 green tons of biomass produced.
- A total of 36 research tools were developed. These tools are expected to increase the effectiveness of forest management practices towards bark beetle mitigation.