What’s Eating My Forest was created to assist forest landowners with diagnosing and understanding Inland Northwest forest Insects and Disease agents. Initial effort and vision was the development of a digital visual key that allows the user to see pictures of various forest insects and diseases and guiding them towards the proper category explaining more about the agents and leading to eventual management options.

Please navigate the program and use it to learn more about the fascinating forest change agents as these work on our landscape. If you encounter a word or phrase with a light blue-violet color, (example) this is linked to a glossary definition. By dragging your cursor over the word and clicking your mouse you will read the definition of this term.

This program is designed to have the user navigate a series of pictorial paths that "hopefully" will lead to identification of the proper disease or insect agent and more importantly towards understanding its workings in the ecosystem. If you have difficulties in arriving at the proper diagnosis, use the various choices in menu buttons and try other options. Remember one sick tree does not mean you have an unhealthy forest. Also, keep in mind to manage your forest as a whole, looking past the sick tree to the entire site.

We hope What’s Eating My Forest will provide you with the proper information to help manage your property.

Conceived and Developed by:

• Peter Griessmann, Washington State University
• Jaron, Jensen, Instructor, Colville High School
• Brian Dannell, Student, Colville High School
• Mark Koontz, Purdue University
• Jeff Sorrels, Washington State University