• Michigan Forest Health News 
Volume 1, Issue 1: Michigan Forest Health News is a newsletter briefly detailing current insect and disease problems in Michigan's forests, and what steps are being taken to deal with these problems. One of the keys to keeping impacts to a minimum is early detection. If you see some of the symptoms or signs outlined in the newsletter, please contact FMD's forest health specialists listed at the end of the newsletter.

• Forest Health Highlights - 2011 

• Forest Health Overview

• What is a Healthy Forest?

• Forest Health Links

• Forest Pests
If you think you may have insects or disease invading your trees, you can use the pictures found here to verify the threat.

• Asian Longhorned Beetle

• Balsam Woolly Adelgid

• Emerald Ash Borer

• Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

• Sudden Oak Death

• Beech Bark Disease
2011 Map of Beech Scale Distribution. Counties that contain one or more red circles are considered positive for beech bark disease. American beech wood products with bark still attached, other than chips, are not to be transported from counties with beech bark scale to or through uninfested beech areas in the Lower Peninsula from July 15 to November 15. Beech scale is mobile at this time of year and can move from infested wood to live beech.