Notebook

You are expected to keep a notebook of your work that you may have to present to your instructor at the completion of the course. The notebook should contain all homework assignments and any other information relevant to the course. Writing in the notebook should be done neatly by hand and drawings should be used whenever possible to illustrate your work. Notebooks will be graded according to completeness, neatness and general overall quality. Your notebook will reflect the amount of time and care you have put into this course.

1. Read Chapter 6, Monitoring and Forecasting Insect Outbreaks, of your textbook Forest Insects: Principles and Practice of Population Management and make notes and drawings in your notebook.
2. Do the problems specified below and send your answers to your instructor.
3. Go through Session 4 on the Internet and make notes in your notebook.

Problem

Do problems III.2 on page 208 of your textbook.

Questions

Questions similar to those below may appear on the first examination. You can practice your knowledge of this session by answering these questions and checking the answers against the information in the reading or Internet.

1. What is an extensive survey?
2. What agencies are responsible for surveying forest lands for insect problems?
3. Where can you find information from the forest insect surveys?
4. Why is timing important in aerial surveys?
5. What is the major problem with extensive surveys?
6. What is the main advantage of extensive surveys?
7. What is an intensive survey?
8. What is a stratified random sample?
9. What is multistage sampling?
10. What is stereoscopic photography?
11. Why is infrared photography often used?
12. What is ground truth data?
13. What is a fixed sampling plot?
14. What is a variable sampling plot?
15. What variables are usually measured in a sampling plot?
16. When is stratified random sampling usually employed?
17. How do we usually sample defoliator populations?
18. How do we usually sample bark beetle populations?
19. How do we decide on the number of samples per tree?
20. What is a life table?
21. What is a trend index?
22. What is a key factor?
23. How are key factors used for forecasting?
24. What is sequential sampling used for?
25. How are pheromone traps used to forecast population trends?
26. What is a model?

 E-mail your instructor to let him know that you have finished this session: berryman@mail.wsu.edu

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