Western Forest Insect Work Conference

In 1985, through the efforts of History Committee secretary Ron W. Stark, Special Collections at the University of Idaho Library began receiving materials generated by members of the Western Forest Insect Work Conference, an international group of scholars and practititioners in forest entomology in Western North America.

Through the efforts of the committee, the following records of the WFIWC have been received:

• MA 1986-05 USFS Forest Entomology Records - California 1965-1983 001.0 cf
• MA 1986-08 Washburn, Richard I Conference Papers 1949-1984 001.5 cf
• MA 1986-14 Western Forest Insect Award 1986 000.5 cf
• MA 1987-34 Forest Entomology Archives 1964-1978 005.0 cf
• MA 1988-08 Forest Entomology Records 1984-1987 000.5 cf
• MA 1989-51 Forest Entomology (Idaho) Papers 1969-1982 001.0 cf
• MA 1993-11 Western Forest Insect Con Records 1964-1964 000.5 cf
• MA 1993-26 Western Forest Insect Conference Proceedings 1987-2002 000.5 cf
• MA 1994-26 Western Forest Insect Con Proceedings 1960-1969 000.5 cf
• MA 1995-01 Western Forest Insect Con Records 1950-1982 001.0 cf.
• MA 1997-03 Western Forest Insect Work Conference Records 1997-1997 000.5 cf

Additional records related to the work of the WFIWC are as follows:

• MA 1986-17 Dawson, Ralph W. Photographs 1914-1950 002.5 lf
• MA 2003-22 Idaho Lands Department Insect Work Files 1947-1974 3 c.f.
• UA 1987-009 Agricultural Extension Pea Insect Photos 1936-1941 001.5 cf

These records are at present unprocessed and require particular care in use.

Other records relevant to the work of the Conference are those of James C. Evenden, Director of the USDA Forest Insect Laboratory in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho (see the inventory at <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Manuscripts/mg134.htm>.

A nearly complete set of the WFIWC Proceedings are included above; there is also a partial set in the library's general collection at SB763.A17W37.

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