Alien Forest Pest Explorer

Andrew Liebhold and Laura Blackburn

About Alien Forest Pest Explorer

Alien Forest Pest Explorer is maintained as a portal for the exploration of spatial data relating to non-indigenous forest pests. It can be used to generate customized maps that depict historical and future range expansion, historical damage and forest susceptibility. Currently, the Explorer contains data for 72 forest pests in the eastern US. Plans are underway to include data from other pests as well as selected invasive plants.

Current distribution and risk maps for over 70 forest pests, are available to view or download from the Maps and Links page. See the GIS Data Download page to download GIS layers and metadata. To create customized maps, visit the Alien Forest Pest Explorer online mapping service. You must allow pop-ups on to run AFPE online mapping service. The site will create pop-up windows to tell you the current active layer and to create a print page. For more information on system requirements and frequently asked questions, visit the AFPE FAQs page.