Goldspotted Oak Borer Steering Committee
New Resource!
Invasive Tree Pests: Beware of This Costly Triple Threat! (English) (PDF)
- Trifold Brochure (English)(PDF)
- Trifold Brochure (Spanish)(PDF)
- Goldspotted Oak Borer Infested Wood Best Management Practices (Factsheet; English) (PDF)
- Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Preventing the Spread of GSOB
Through the Movement of Logs & Firewood, November 2015 (PDF) - Goldspotted Oak Borer Community Preparedness Planning:
Guidelines for Strategic Action before GSOB Strikes Your Communities (PDF) - Goldspotted Oak Borer Briefing Paper (PDFs):
- Burned Oaks: Which Ones Will Survive? (PDF)
Federal
- Forest Insect & Disease Leaflet 183: Goldspotted Oak Borer
(August 2017) (PDF) - Goldspotted Oak Borer IPM Poster (PDF)
- New Pest Advisory Group Report (amended October 2009) (PDF)
- US Forest Service (Website)
- Pest Alert - New Pest in California: The Goldspotted Oak Borer (October 2008) (PDF)
- "Wanted: GSOB/Trees" (Poster)
- "Wanted: Evidence/Firewood" (Poster)
- GSOB Poster (Poster)
- GSOB Individual Pest Risk Assessment (May 2010) (PDF)
- Goldspotted Oak Borer chapter in Field Guide to Common Pests and Diseases of Oaks in California (2011) (PDF)
State
- CAL FIRE - "Tree Notes" Fact Sheets
- Tree Notes #3 - "Controlling Bark Beetles in Wood Residue & Firewood" (July 1996) (PDF)
- Tree Notes #7 - "Keeping Native California Oaks Healthy" (June 1990) (PDF)
- Tree Notes #19 - "Managing Bark Beetles in Urban & Rural Trees" (May 2015) (PDF)
- Tree Notes #31 - "Goldspotted Oak Borer" (March 2009) (PDF)
- Tree Notes #34 - "GSOB Update" (October 2020) (PDF)
- California Firewood Taskforce - "Don't Move Firewood/GSOB" Poster (PDF)
- California Invasive Plant Council - GSOB Information and Interactive Map (Website)
- California State Parks - "Goldspotted Oak Borer" (Website)
- California Forest Pest Council's GSOB page (Ctrl+F "goldspotted oak borer")
- UC Riverside's Center for Invasive Species Research - Goldspotted Oak Borer
- University of California IPM - GSOB Field Identification Guide (PDF)
- University of California IPM - Pest Note on Goldspotted Oak Borer (PDF)
- GSOB Surveying Form (PDF)
Region
- Western IPM Center - Goldspotted Oak Borer Special Report (May 2017) (Website)