Show forest staff gives pro program 9 ram forester garland toland and assistant ranger john hooper presented a program on forest insects and their control to the four union high school biology classes friday the program included the ashley national forest insect control projects during the last few years and the methods used to control the populations of forest insects when they become epidemic the students student were told that insects destroy more umber timber every year than man fire insect control projects tor for spruce dark Bark beetles and pine beetles have been going on the ashley i national forest since rince 1950 the hazard has been substantially reduced in some areas but other areas still have epidemic infestations of bark beetle it was explained |