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The article offers information on the optimal management of invasive metapopulation of forests in North America. It reveals that management of invasive species involves selecting between the different management strategy options. Research shows that in mitigating the most devastating forest pest, gypsy moth, one must use stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) to metapopulation framework with different infestation patch sizes to minimize infestation spread. To address invasive metapopulation of pests, one must consider various factors including eradicating medium-density infestation, reducing large-density infestation and reducing the colonization rate from the main infestation.