This publication contains presentations, poster abstracts, and moderator summaries from two plenary sessions, three panel discussions, and 150 workshop presentations at a forest insect conference. Topics covered include exotic pest invasions, policy & regulations, effect of climate change on insect populations, effects of fire, forest health, urban forest pest management, biological processes & controls in pest management, decision support systems, aerial survey tracking systems, remote sensing, computer mapping, tree resistance to insects, insect population dynamics, restoration ecology, dendrochronology, hazard & risk rating systems, professional ethics, cone & seed insect research, high elevation forest insects, and ecophysiology.

Focused on the continuing battle to understand bark beetle and spruce budworm pop's., whose impacts profoundly affect any discussion of forest environ's. The consequences of exotic pest invasion, the ethics in conducting scientific work, outcomes of present-day forest mgmt., and resource sustain'y. were highlighted in other workshops. Presenters highlighted gov't. policy and reg's. and the influence of foresters, forest scientists and stakeholder groups on decision-makers. The effects of global climate change on insect pop's. and forests, forestry practices and attitudes, and the politics of forestry were discussed. Other topics included: the effects of fire on forests and insects; forest health research, exper'n. and restoration; urban forest pest mgmt.; ecophys'y., etc.