ANNUAL FOREST PEST MANAGEMENT FORUM 2018

[Draft Agenda – Not yet final]

Courtyard Marriot, Byward Market, 350 Dalhousie St

Ottawa, Ontario

TUESDAY,MARCH 20th2018

08:00 Registration

9:00Welcoming remarksBeth MacNeil (ADM, CFS)

Session I:National Forest Pest Strategy

Chair: D. MacFarlane, Natural Resources Canada

  1. Derek MacFarlane - Opening comments on behalf of the CCFM Working Group
  2. Derek MacFarlane Overview of the four Strategic Pillars:
  1. Consolidating the National Forest Pest Strategy’s (NFPS) Foundations for Informed Pest Management Decision-Making across Jurisdictions.
  2. Adapted Socio-Economic Analysis of Forest Pest and Management Program Impacts.

IIIAligning Inter-governmental Responses to Forest Invasive Pests

IVPreparing for Pest Management under a Changing Climate.

10:00Break

Session II:Strategic Pillar #1: National Forest Pest Strategy’s Foundations for Informed Pest Management Decision-Making across Jurisdictions

Chair: Kevin Porter, Natural Resources Canada

10:30 -Revisit the MPB Risk Assessment - Summary of MPB Workshop -

Dr. Barry Cooke, Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre

10:50National Mountain Pine Beetle Strategic Response Plan – Containment Strategy

Speaker, Agency

Speaker, Agency

11:10Mountain pine beetle genomics:filling the knowledge gaps

Chris Keeling, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre

11:30INDUSTRY SPONSOR – SYLVAR

Stephan Richard

Session III:Strategic Pillar #2:Adapted Socio-Economic Analysis of Forest Pest and Management Program Impacts

Chair: TBD

11:40Business Case Framework for Forest Pest Management Decisions

Ontario

Speaker: Hugh Lougheed or designate

12:00Firewood Pathway Analysis

Tracey Cooke, Invasive Species Centre

12:20 LUNCH (Not provided)

Session IV:Strategic Pillar #3: Aligning Inter-governmental Responses to Forest Invasive Pests

Chair: TBD

1:30Socio economic analysis

(TBD)

1:50Emerald Ash Borer in Manitoba

Fiona Ross, MB SRD

2:10INDUSTRY SPONSOR -

Speaker, BioForest/Lallamond Plant Care

2:30HWA Technical Advisory Committee Strategic Plan

Erin Bullas-Appleton, CFIA

2:50Hemlock Woolly Adelgid – Extent, mortality and response in Nova Scotia

Celia Boone (NS DND)

3:10Break

Session V: Strategic Pillar #4 – Preparing for Pest Management under a Changing Climate

Chair: TBD

3:40Forest pest monitoring under a changing climate: Vulnerability and adaptation

Janice Hodge, NFPS Coordinator

4:00Forest Adaptation initiatives in Alberta

Erica Samis, Alberta Agriculture and Forestry

4:20Advances in Pathology

Tod Ramsfield, Canadian Forestry Service, Northern

4:40Long term forest health monitoring: The CIPHA model

Michael Michaelian, Canadian Forestry Service, Northern

5:00Importance of Heterobasidion irregulare aerial basidiospore dispersal.

Jean Bérubé, Canadian forestry Service, Laurentian

17:20End of Day 1

WEDNESDAY,MARCH21st

Session VI: Provincial,Territorialand US Reports

Chair: TBD, Natural Resources Canada

Western Canada

8:00British Columbia Report

Tim Ebata, British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource

Operations

8:15Alberta Report

Erica Samis, Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, Forest Management Branch

8:30Saskatchewan Report

Rory McIntosh, Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment, Forest Service Branch

8:45Quebec Report

Pierre Therrien,Quebec Ministry of Forest, Wildlife and Parks

9:00Manitoba Report

Fiona Ross, Manitoba Conservation, Forestry Branch

9:15INDUSTRY SPONSOR-FOREST PROTECTION LIMITED

Speaker, TBD

North of 60 Reports

9:25Northwest Territories Report

Jakub Olesinski, Government of the Northwest Territories, Environment and

Natural Resources, Forest Management Division

9:40Yukon Report

Robert Legare, Yukon Government, Energy, Mines and Resources, Forest Management

10:00Break

United States Report

10:30Overview of forest pest conditions in the U.S.A.

TBD, United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Health Protection

Eastern Pest Management Issues

11:00Ontario Report

Dan Rowlinson or Dan Puddister, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources

11:15New Brunswick Report

Drew Carleton, New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources

11:30Nova Scotia Report

Celia Boone, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources

12:00Newfoundland Report

DanLavigne,Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Natural Resources

12:15Lunch (not provided)

Session VIIEarly Intervention: What have we learned

Chair: TBD

13:30Early Intervention 2014-18:

Rob Johns, Canadian Forestry Service – Atlantic Forestry Centre

13:50Early Intervention next steps – Phase 2

Dave MacLean, UNB

14:10INDUSTRY SPONSOR- Valent BioSciences

Jacques Dugal

Session VIII:Pesticide Regulations, Alternatives, Minor Use Update

Chair: Michael Irvine

14:20 Pest Management Regulatory Agency update

Dean Morewood, PMRA

14:40Re-evaluation at PMRA

Adam Colley, PMRA

15:00GDG registration of Beauveria for application by auto-dissemination

Rejean Bergevin and Mark Ardis, G D G Environnement Ltée

15:20Break

Session IX:Risk Assessment and Invasive Species

Chair: Richard Wilson

15:40Plant Health Risk Analysis in the CFIA

Rob Favrin, CFIA

16:00Ontario’s Invasive Species Act

Richard Wilson, OMNRF

16:20INDUSTRY SPONSOR- Engage Agro

Michael Cunningham

16:40Biosurveillance of Alien Forest Enemies (bioSAFE): genetic approaches to assessment and intervention of biological invasion

Gwylim Blackburn, Université Laval

17:00End of Day 2

Thursday, MARCH 22nd

Session VIII CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY

Chair: StevenCôté

8:30CFIA’s Regulatory Plans/State of Affairs Update

Marcel Dawson and Julie Laplante, CFIA

8:50National Plant Animal Health Strategy

Greg Wolff, CFIA

9:20The Canadian Plant Health Science Network

Jamie Schnell - Plant Health Science Services Division

9:40Characterization of the recently detected Hemlock Woolly Adelgid populations in Nova Scotia using molecular methods

Bryan Brunet, Ottawa Plant Laboratory- Entomology Research

10:00Break

10:302017 Survey Results

Jill Dalton/Mireille Marcotte, CFIA Plant Health Surveillance Unit

10:50TreeAzin stem injection for European beech leafmining weevil

Jon Sweeney, Canadian Forestry Service –Atlantic

11:10TBA

Speaker, Agency

11:10SessionWrap up

Speaker, Agency

12:00 END OFCFIA SESSION

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