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Table 3. Major cost categories for the Thompson Okanagan Region 2012 western spruce<br />

budworm spray program.<br />

Activity Cost<br />

Fall 2011 egg mass sampling $55,000<br />

Aircraft (spray helicopters <strong>and</strong> planning flights) $424,700<br />

B.t.k. $1,075,873<br />

Weather monitoring <strong>and</strong> efficacy assessment $60,000<br />

Trucking B.t.k. to <strong>and</strong> from staging sites $45,570<br />

Advertisements & Communications $11,704<br />

Equipment, supplies <strong>and</strong> technical support $7,000<br />

Two co-op. students $28,000<br />

Total estimated cost $1,707,847<br />

Estimated cost per hectare $31.43<br />

Lillooet<br />

Riske<br />

Creek<br />

Figure 2. Map <strong>of</strong> the Cariboo (upper map) <strong>and</strong> Thompson Okanagan - Kootenay Boundary<br />

Regions (lower map) showing 2012 spray block locations for western spruce budworm<br />

(red), 2012 defoliation (dark grey), <strong>and</strong> historical defoliation from 1909 - 2011 (light grey).<br />

<strong>Ministry</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Forests</strong>, <strong>L<strong>and</strong>s</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Natural</strong> <strong>Resource</strong> <strong>Operations</strong>, Kamloops, B.C.<br />

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Williams<br />

Lake<br />

Merritt<br />

Kamloops<br />

100 Mile House<br />

Penticton

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