(IPM) the maintenance of destructive agents, including insects at tolerable levels, by the planned use of a variety of preventive, suppressive, or regulatory tactics and strategies that are ecologically and economically efficient and socially acceptable —note 1. it is implicit in IPM that the actions taken are fully integrated into total resource planning and management, including either the life span of the tree crop or the entire resource-planning horizon —note 2. IPM is an evolving concept that recognizes ecological, social, and economic values; early definitions were similar to that given for integrated control —see forest entomologyThis definition last updated 10/28/2008