British Columbia's Forests White Pine Blister Rust Forest Health Stand Establishment Decision Aid
Bibliographic record
Abstract
White pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola) is an introduced disease affecting five-needle pines throughout North America. Like other non-native pests, its impact on the native hosts has been dramatic, decimating species such as western white pine in both number and distribution. Because of its prevalence, white pines have been removed from commercial forestry consideration in most areas. This is unfortunate as western white pine is an excellent substitute for Douglas-fir in areas prone to laminated root disease. It can also command a premium price. To mitigate disease impact and permit management, a good understanding of the biology of C. ribicola is necessary.The Stand Establishment Decision Aid (SEDA) format has been used to extend information on various vegetation and forest health concerns in British Columbia. This decision aid summarizes information that relates current management regimes to the spread and effects of white pine blister rust. The first page provides general information, hazard ratings for the biogeoclimatic zones and subzones of British Columbia, and biological considerations for white pine blister rust. The second page outlines the implications to silviculture and the various techniques used to manage the disease. This page also includes a resource and reference list to provide readers with more detailed information. Reference material that is not available online can be ordered through libraries or the Queen's Printer at: www.qp.gov.bc.ca
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".