59th Annual Meeting of the California Forest Pest Council – 2010
“The Changing Forests of California”
November 16 - 17, 2010
Wildland Fire Training & Conference Center
30 Mile Room
3237 Peacekeeper Way
McClellan, CA 95652
Meeting Overview: Forest insect and disease issues and challenges will be presented and discussed, including topics on damaging insects and pathogens not yet found in California forests as well as climate change induced stress. Attendees will also have the opportunity to attend an evening poster session and social on 11/16. Refreshments will be provided both meeting days, with lunch offered on 11/17.
Tuesday, November 16 (all sessions are open to all interested)
Welcome and 2010 Forest Conditions – Overview
Insect Committee – Forest Insects in California
Disease Committee – Forest Diseases in California
Pesticides – Laws and Regulations
Posters and Social
Wednesday, November 17
California Forest Insect and Disease Challenges
Climate Change – How will Forests Fare?
Lunch – provided
CFPC Business Meeting
On the Lookout for Tomorrow’s Threats to California’s Forests
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Registration
12:30 pm Welcome
Bob Rynearson, California Forest Pest Council Chairperson,
W.M. Beaty & Associates, Inc.
Remembrances of Andi Koonce and Dick Parmeter
Provided by Paul Zambino and Det Vogler, USDA Forest Service
2010 Forest Conditions
Beverly Bulaon and Phil Cannon, USDA FS, Forest Health Protection
California Insect and Disease Atlas (CAIDA) WebGIS
Zhanfeng Liu, USDA FS, Forest Health Protection
1:25 Insect Committee Meeting - Forest Insects in California
Moderator: Beverly Bulaon, Insect Committee Chairperson
Effects of Fire Seasonality and Severity on Ponderosa Pine Resistance to Bark Beetles in Northeastern California
Amanda Garcia Grady, USDA FS, Forest Health Protection, and others
Forest Soil Arthropods in the High Canopy of California's Coastal Redwoods: Community Structure and Dynamics
Michael Camann, Humboldt State University, and others
Firewood Movement: A Threat to California’s Forests
Matthew Bokach, USDA FS, Forest Health Protection, and others
Insect Committee Business – Beverly Bulaon
2:40 – 2:55 BREAK
2:55 Disease Committee Meeting - Forest Diseases in California
Moderator: Tom Smith, Disease Committee Chairperson
Update on Pitch Canker in California – Tom Gordon, UC Davis
White Pine Blister Rust Research at the Institute of Forest Genetics after Major-Gene Resistance
Annette Delfino Mix, USDA FS Pacific Southwest Research Station, and others
True Fir Dwarf Mistletoe in the Sierras: Long-Term Growth and Mortality Trends Heather Mehl, UC Davis, and others
An Overview of Mistletoes on Hardwoods in California
Katy Mallams, USDA FS, Forest Health Protection
Disease Committee Business – Tom Smith
4:30 Pesticide Laws and Regulations
Moderator: William Morrison, California Forest Pest Council Vice Chairman,
Soper-Wheeler Company
Potential Impacts of Court-Ordered Injunctions on Pesticide Use and the Protection of Endangered Species
Leopoldo Moreno, California Department of Pesticide Regulation
Discussion
5:30 – 7:00 Poster Session and Social
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
7:30 – 8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 Welcome
Chairman Rynearson
8:35 Forest Insect and Disease Challenges
Moderator: Brian Mattos, National Park Service, Yosemite
Forest Stand Impacts Associated with the Goldspotted Oak Borer, Agrilus auroguttatus, in Native and Introduced Oak Woodlands
Tom Coleman, USDA Forest Service, and others
Fungal Species Associated with Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia) Mortality in Southern California – Akif Eskalen, UC Riverside, and others
Thousand Cankers
Steve Seybold, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
Phytophthora ramorum and Sudden Oak Death in Forestlands
Yana Valachovic, UCCE Humboldt and Del Norte
10:00 – 10:30 BREAK
10:30 Climate Change – How will Forests Fare?
Moderator: Eli Ilano, USDA Forest Service, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit
Forest Responses to Increasing Aridity and Warmth in the Southwestern United States Park Williams, UC Santa Barbara, and others
Using Provenance Tests to Understand Forest Responses to Climate Change
Jessica Wright, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
Pinyon-Juniper/Shrublands Long-Term Successional Trends: Implications for Woodland Health and Management
Robin Tausch USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Changes and Challenges to High Elevation Conifers of the White Mountains, California John Louth, USDA Forest Service, Inyo National Forest
Renewable Landscapes: Climate and Health as Drivers of Change in High Sierran Ecosystems – Constance Millar, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, and others
12:30 – 1:30 LUNCH PROVIDED
1:30 CFPC 2010 Business Meeting and Elections
Chairperson Rynearson
2:00 Special Papers
Moderator: Julie Lydick, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection
Western Wildlands Environmental Threats Assessment Center
Nancy Grulke, WWETAC
Observations and Projections of Sudden Oak Death-Induced Tanoak Mortality at Point Reyes National Seashore: A Tale of Two Forest Types
Ben Ramage, UC Berkeley, and others
Blackstain Root Disease in Eastside Pine, a Brief Overview of Ongoing Research
Bill Otrosina, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens, Georgia
2:55 – 3:15 BREAK
3:15 On the Lookout for Tomorrow’s Threats to California’s Forests
Moderator: Patricia Maloney, UC Davis
Redbay Ambrosia Beetle and Laurel Wilt: A Destructive Duo in the Southeast and a Potential Threat to California
Don Duerr, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Atlanta, GA
Emerald Ash Borer: Biology, Impacts, and Management
Andrew Storer, Michigan Technological University
Asian Longhorned Beetle Infestation in Massachusetts
Michael Bohne, USDA, Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Durham, NH
4:30 ADJOURN
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