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The Southern Interior Forest Region
(SIR) covers a large and diverse area. These forest lands span many ecosystems
and zones. This area includes: desert, drybelt, moist, alpine, and sub
alpine ecosystems. The geographic area extends from Quesnel in the Northwest
to the Alberta Border in the North East and to the US border in the South.
This highly variable and diverse environment contains a range of damaging
pests. Forest pathogens include: needle cast fungi, root diseases, stem
decays, mistletoes, and rust fungi. Forest pathogens cause tree mortality,
growth loss and defects throughout the SIR.
Selected images of pathogen damage can be found here.
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