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FOREST INSECTS 
F. C. Craighead, in Charge 
Dr. F. C. Craighead spent the week of September 8 at Asheville, 
N. C., and vicinity, conferring with R. A. St. George and Ro WaeGameg 
regarding the studies being conducted there this season on the southern 
pine beetle. 
At the request of Col. D. C. Chapman, Chairman of the Tennessee 
Great Smoky Mountain Park Commission, Doctor Craighead and Mr. St. George 
yisited several parts of the Smoky Mountain National Park on September 
10 and ll, investigating extensive outbreaks of the southern pine beetle. 
What is believed to be one of the largest outbreaks in recent years was 
d in that park. Of particular interest was an outbreak yofethis 
tle found in spruce. This is the first record for this host invmany 
s Many local outbreaks in pine were found in various localities in 
ern North Carolina and in eastern Tennessee. 
Dr. E. J. Kraus, of the University of Chicago, accompanied by 
Mr. Ashby, a physiologist from England, visited the United States En- 
tomolcgical Laboratory, at Bent Creek, near Asheville, N. Cl QeiGdumiae 
the week of September 8, and consulted with Doctor Craighead, Dr. Carl 
Hartley, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, and Messrs. St. George and 
Caird, regarding the problem of interrelation of blue stain and beetles 
in recently infested pines. 
The studies on the pine beetle at Asheville were brought to a 
close on September 24. Mr. Caird left for Ann Arbor, Mich., where he 
is to continue his postgraduate studies in physiology, forestry, and 
entomology, at the University of Michigan. He was recently awarded a 
Pack Fellowship. 
On September 15 H. J. Huckenpahler, Field Assistant, returned to 
the University of Minnesota, at the termination of his summer appoint— 
ment at Asheville, N. C. 
Hugo Pawek, summer Field Assistant, has received a temporary ap-— 
pointment with the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station, at Asheville, 
N. C., beginning at the termination, on September 26, of his appoint— 
ment with the Bureau. 
In August F. P. Keen made an inspection of the National Forests 
of Washington. He did this to familiarize himself with insect condi-= 
tions in this portion of the territory assigned to the United States 
Entcmological Laboratory cpened at Portland, Oreg., in October, 1929. 
Heavy damage by insects was found in various forests. The Douglas— 
fir tussock moth has killed thousands of acres of fir on the Colville 
National Forest, and the mountain pine beetle is causing severe damage 
to the pines both east and west of the Cascade Range. 
