2008 Weed Tour
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
The 2008 Weed Tour is tentatively set for July 16-17 in the Eureka area.
Archive for July, 2008
2008 Weed Committee Field Tour and Golf Tournament
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
July 16th and July 17th
July 15, 2008
2008 Forest Insect & Disease Field Tour
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
2006 CFPC Annual Meeting Online Proceedings
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
CALIFORNIA FOREST PEST COUNCIL
55th ANNUAL MEETING
Featured Topic: Forest Health in Northeastern California
November 14-15, 2006
Heidrick Ag. Center
1962 Hays Lane, Woodland, CA
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Insect Committee 11/14 Disease Committee 11/14 General Session 11/15
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November 14th2006
INSECT COMMITTEE MEETING- Dave Schultz, Chair
- Welcome to Fall Meeting of Insect Committee – Brief mention of Summer Insect & Disease Field Meeting
Dave Schultz, Chair, USDA-FS, Redding. dschultz01@fs.fed.us; Beverly Bulaon, Secretary, USDA-FS, Sonora. bbulaon@fs.fed.us - Control of Forest Lepidoptera with LASTCALL Attract and Kill Technology
Darek Czokajlo, Forests Alive, Inc., Marylhurst, OR. dczokajlo@comcast.net - The Role of Ambrosia and Bark Beetles in Sudden Oak Death
Brice McPherson, UC Berkeley, aoxomoxo@nature.berkeley.edu - Delayed Conifer Mortality Following Fire in California
Danny Cluck, Entomologist, USDA-FS, Susanville. dcluck@fs.fed.us - Efficacy of Verbenone Flakes for Area-Wide and Individual Tree Protection from Attack by Mountain Pine Beetles
Don Owen, Entomologist, CDF&FP, Redding. Don.Owen@fire.ca.gov - Phoresy Rates and Spore Loads of an Exotic Pathogen, Fusarium Circinatum¸ on Native Bark Beetles Induce Resistance to F. Circinatum in Natural Monterey Pine Forests
Nadir Erbilgin, UC Berkeley, erbilgin@nature.berkeley.edu - Douglas-Fir Tussock Moth Outbreak on Shasta-Trinity National Forest
Dave Schultz, Entomologist, USDA-FS Redding, dschultz01@fs.fed.us - Business Meeting. Resolutions, Announcements and Election
DISEASE COMMITTEE MEETING-Bill Woodruff, Chair
Welcome, Summer Insect & Disease Committee Meeting
Bill Woodruff, Chair, USDA FS Susanville,wwoodruff@fs.fed.us;
Tom Smith, Secretary, CDF, Davis,tom.smith@fire.ca.gov
- 2006 California Tree Diseases
Tim Tidwell, CDFA Plant Pest Diagnostic Center, ttidwell@cdfa.ca.gov - Resistance to Western Gall Rust in Ponderosa Pine
Detlev Vogler, USDA Forest Service, PSW Institute of Forest Genetics, dvogler@fs.fed.us
Final Report: 5-Needle-pine Blister Rust Survey in California (not posted at presenter’s request)
Patricia Maloney, UC Davis - patricia-maloney@sbcglobal.net- The Institute of Forest Genetics Past, Present and Future
Annette Delfino-Mix, USDA Forest Service, PSW Institute of Forest Genetics, amix@fs.fed.us - Genotype to Phenotype: Understanding the Association between Natural Genetic Variation and Complex Traits in Forest Trees
David Neale, UC Davis, dbneale@ucdavis.edu - 2006 CFPC Meeting Monitoring Streams for Phytophthora ramorum
Shannon Murphy, UC Davis, skmurphy@ucdavis.edu - Annosus Root Disease and SPORAX®
Bill Woodruff, USDA FS, Susanville, wwoodruff@fs.fed.us - Disease Business meeting — Election of committee officers
Wednesday, November 15th2006 — General Session
Featured Topic: Forest Health in Northeastern California
- Update on Southern California Forest Health
Glenn Barley, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Glenn.Barley@fire.ca.gov - Sudden Oak Death Update
Dave Rizzo, Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, UC-Davis, dmrizzo@ucdavis.edu - Asian Longhorned Beetle Project for 2006
Mark Lubinski, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, mlubinski@cdfa.ca.gov - High Risk Seaport Survey for Asian Gypsy Moth
Mark Lubinski, CDFA - First Report of Japanese Dodder
Bob Dowell, CDFA, Sacramento, bdowell@cdfa.ca.gov - First Report of P. cinnamomi in Oak Woodlands in California
Dave Shaw, UC Cooperative Extension, San Diego, dshaw@ucdavis.edu - Red Turpentine Beetle Outbreak, Near Chester in Ponderosa Pines Thinned in 2004; Continuing Outbreak of DIplodia Blight in the Upper Sacramento River Canyon
Don Owen, California Department of Forestry, Redding, dowen@fire.ca.gov
Featured Topic: Forest Health in Northeastern California
Moderator: Dave Evans, USDA Forest Service, Silviculturist Lassen NF, devans01@fs.fed.us
- Historical Changes to Forests in Northeastern California
Tom Rickman, Wildlife Biologist, Eagle Lake Ranger District, trickman@fs.fed.us - Insects and Pathogens of Northeastern California
Sheri Smith, USDA-FS, Supervisory Entomologist, NE California Shared Services Area, Susanville, ssmith@fs.fed.us - Maintaining Structure and Minimizing Mortality in an Interior Ponderosa Pine Forest: the Blacks Mountain Project
Martin Ritchie, Redding Silviculture Laboratory, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Redding, mritchie@fs.fed.us - Challenges in Maintaining a Healthy Forest in Northeastern California
Dave Evans, devans01@fs.fed.us
Afternoon
- CFPC Business Meeting; Scott Johnson, CFPC Chairman, mbohne@fs.fed.us
- Overview of Animal Damage in California Forests
Greg Giusti, UC Coop. Extension, gagiusti@ucdavis.edu
Panel: Managing Forest Insects And Pathogens: What Can Be Done?
Moderator: Jack Marshall, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Willits, Jack.Marshall@fire.ca.gov
- The Effectiveness of Vegetation Management Practices for Mitigating the Impacts of Bark Beetles on Forest Ecosystems
Jose Negron, Research Entomologist, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins; jnegron@fs.fed.us - Suppressing Phytophthora ramorum in Humboldt County
Yana Valachovic, Forest Advisor, UCCE Humboldt County, Eureka. yvala@ucdavis.edu - Eradication of Phytophthora lateralis, Cause of Port Orford Cedar Root Disease at Scott Camp Creek
Dave Schultz, USDA-FS, Entomologist, Northern California Service Center, Redding, dschultz01@fs.fed.us - Manzanita and Phytophthora
Ted Swiecki, Phytosphere Research, Vacaville, phytosphere@phytosphere.com - Update on Pesticide Laws and Regulations: CDPR’s Enforcement Response Policy
Ralph Shields; Department of Pesticide Regulation, Environmental Monitoring Branch, Sacramento, CA,rshields@cdpr.ca.gov
Adjourn
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2005 CFPC Annual Meeting Online Proceedings
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
CALIFORNIA FOREST PEST COUNCIL
54th ANNUAL MEETING
California Forest Health Issues: An Update and Focus on the Southern Sierra Nevada
November 15-16, 2005
Heidrick Ag. Center
1962 Hays Lane, Woodland, CA
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Insect Committee 11/15 Disease Committee 11/15 General Session 11/16
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November 15th 2005
INSECT COMMITTEE MEETING- Chris Fettig, Chair
- Systemic Insecticide Injections for Protection of Conifers Against Bark Beetles
Donald M. Grosman, Texas Forest Service, Forest Pest Management - Development of Semiochemical-Based Tools for Protecting Ponderosa Pine from Western Pine Beetle Infestations in Northern California
Stephen R. McKelvey, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station - Refining the Aggregation Pheromone of the California Five-spined ips, Ips paraconfusus, in the Central Sierra Nevada
Steven J. Seybold, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station - Development of An Attractant for the Banded Elm Bark Beetle, Scolytus schevyrewi: Results of Field Tests in Reno, NV and Lakewood, CO
Jana C. Lee, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station and UC Davis - Effects Of Nitrogen Additions On Insects Of Pine And Oak
Michele Eatough Jones, Department of Entomology, UC Riverside - Insect Committee Business meeting — Election of committee officers
DISEASE COMMITTEE MEETING-Bill Woodruff, Chair
Bill Woodruff, Chair, CFPC Disease
CommitteeUSDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Susanville
- 5-Needle-Pine Blister Rust Survey in California
Joan Dunlap, USDA Forest Service, and Patricia Maloney, UC Davis - Survival and Viability of the Pitch Canker Fungus
Chris Friel, UC Davis - Pitch Canker Update
Tom Gordon, UC Davis - Sudden Oak Death Update
Janice Alexander, COMTF - Dwarf Mistletoe Resistance Program
Paul Stover and Dennis Ringnes, USDA Forest Service - Disease Business meeting — Election of committee officers
Wednesday, November 16th 2005 — General Session
California Forest Health Issues: An Update and Focus on the Southern Sierra Nevada
- 2005 California Forest Pest Conditions
Michael Bohne, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection - An Overview of the Ecology of the Southern Sierras with a Focus on Insects and Pathogens
Brian Mattos, Yosemite National Park - Canopy Gaps and Root Diseases in the Yosemite Valley
Dave Rizzo and Garey Slaughter, Department of Plant Pathology, UC Davis - Fungi, Fire and the Fate of Sugar Pine in the Southern Sierra Nevada
Phillip van Mantgem, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center - Douglas-Fir Tussock Moth Status in California
Beverly Bulaon, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection - Thinning Using the Uneven-aged Management System, The Kings River Project
Mark Smith, USDA Forest Service, Sierra National Forest - Incense Cedar Growth Studies and Observed Mortality
Freider Schurr, UC-Blodgett Forest
2005 Forest Health Issues Update
- Asian Longhorned Beetle
Joan Scheiman, California Department of Food and Agriculture - Mediterranean Pine Engraver, Orthotomicus
Jana Lee, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station - Southern California Bark Beetle Update
Glenn Barley, Kevin Turner and Thomas Porter, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection - True Fir Mortality in the Central Sierras
John Pronos, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection and - True Mistletoe in White Fir Stands In the Central Sierra Nevada
Ed Struffenegger, Sierra Pacific Industries - Oak Anthracnose
Don Owen, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection - Introduction to the Western Wildlands Environmental Threat Assessment Center
Terry Shaw, USDA-Forest Service, Senior Scientists, Western Wildlands Environmental Threat Assessment Center - Use of Pheromone Releasing Flakes for Individual Tree Protection
Nancy Gillette, Pacific Southwest Research Station - An Update on Pesticide Laws and Regulations
Patricia Lesky, Deputy Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer, Amador County Department of Agriculture - Minutes of 11/16 CFPC Business Meeting/Elections (PDF file)
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2004 CFPC Annual Meeting Online Proceedings
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
CALIFORNIA FOREST PEST COUNCIL
53rd ANNUAL MEETING
What’s New in Forest Insect and Pathogen Research and Management?
November 9-10, 2004
Heidrick Ag. Center
1962 Hays Lane, Woodland, CA
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November 9th 2004
DISEASE COMMITTEE MEETING-Bill Woodruff, Chair
Bill Woodruff, Chair, CFPC Disease Committee. USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Susanville
- What’s happening in USDA- Forest Service, Forest Health Protection?
Julie Lydick, Director, USDA-FS, Forest Health Protection, Pacific Southwest Region, Vallejo
Presentation not available at this time - Oak Decline Investigations in Mexico – a Cooperative Effort (11kb PDF Abstract)
John Kliejunas, USDA -FS, Forest Health Protection, Pacific Southwest Region, Vallejo - Highlights of Results for Blister Rust on Colorado Limber and Bristlecone Pine: Inoculation Conditions, Host Phenology, and Suggestions for Screening High-Elevation White Pines
Det Vogler, USDA FS, Institute of Forest Genetics, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Davis
Presentation not available at this time - Pathogens and Plant Community Structure in a Sierra Mixed-Conifer Old-Growth Forest — PhD Dissertation
Tom Smith, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Davis
Presentation not available at this time - National Hazard Tree Database (792kb PDF file)
John Pronos, USDA-FS, Forest Health Protection, Sonora, CA - 2004 High Elevation Five-Needle Pine and White Pine Blister Rust Survey in California (1,636kb PDF file)
Joan Dunlap, USDA-FS Sugar Pine Blister Rust Program Manager, Placerville; Patricia Maloney, UC Davis; and Dan Duriscoe, National Park Service, Death Valley NP - Disease Business meeting — Election of committee officers (24kb PDF file)
INSECT COMMITTEE MEETING- Chris Fettig, Chair
- Status of Pinyon Pine Mortality in Northern California
Sheri L. Smith (Forest Health Protection, USDA Forest Service, Susanville)
Presentation not available at this time - Status of Pinyon Pine Mortality in Southern California (2.837kb PDF file)
Laura Merrill (Forest Health Protection, USDA Forest Service, Riverside) - Studies on the Aggregation Pheromone of the Pinyon Ips, Ips confusus, in Nevada and the Southwestern United States (2,597kb PDF file)
Steven J. Seybold, (Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Davis), Thomas Eager (Forest Health Protection, USDA Forest Service, Gunnison), Brytten Steed (Forest Health Protection, USDA Forest Service, Ogden), and Sheri L. Smith (Forest Health Protection, USDA Forest Service, Susanville) - Sudden Oak Death Research: Disease Progression (Watershed Monitoring (and the Role of Scolytid Beetles in the Disease)
Brice A. McPherson (UC Berkeley), David L. Wood (UC Berkeley), Andrew J. Storer (Michigan Technological University), Pavel Svihra (University of California Cooperative Extension), Sylvia R. Mori (U. S. Forest Service (Albany), Nadir Erbilgin (UC Berkeley), Richard B. Standiford (UC Berkeley), Maggi Kelly (UC Berkeley)
Presentation not available at this time - Efficacy of Microencapsulated Pheromone for Mating Disruption of Western Pine Shoot Borer, Eucosma sonomana
Nancy E. Gillette (Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Berkeley), Donald R. Owen (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Redding), J. Webster (Total Forestry, Redding) and John D. Stein (Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, USDA Forest Service, Morgantown)
Presentation not available at this time - Disruption of Western Pine Beetle, Dendroctonus brevicomis, Response to Baited Traps with Angiosperm Volatiles and Verbenone (2,743kb PDF file)
Christopher J. Fettig (Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Davis) and Dezene P. Huber (Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Davis and University of California, Davis) - Disease Committee Business meeting — Election of committee officers (39kb PDF file)
November 10th — General Session
What’s New in Forest Insect and Pathogen Research and Management?
- Forest Conditions 2004
David Schultz, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Redding
Presentation not available at this time
Focus on Southern California
- Southern CA Die-Off – Status and Update on Treatment Progress (3,320kb PDF file)
Glenn Barley, Unit Forester, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, San Bernardino - Southern CA Edison’s Challenge – Managing the Southern California Die-Off
Bonnie Burchill, Environmental Resource Solutions, Inc, Santa Rosa
Oral presentation – No paper submitted - The Influence of Stand Density on Mortality in California’s Forests – An Analysis of Inventory Data (2,585kb PDF file)
Michael Landram, Regional Silviculturist, USDA-Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region
Forest Pathogens
- Principles of Emergent Forest Diseases – Principles and Examples (619kb PDF file)
Gregory Gilbert, UC Santa Cruz - An Update on Sudden Oak Death and Sudden Oak Death as an Emergent Disease (2,704kb)
David Rizzo, Department of Plant Pathology, UC-Davis - An Update on Pitch Canker in the Sierra Nevada (2,403kb PDF file)
Det Vogler, USDA- Forest Service Research, Davis CA
Forest Insects
- Efficacy Tests Of New Insecticides and Formulations Registered For Protection of High-Valued Trees from Bark Beetle Attack (2,514kb PDF file)
Christopher P. Dabney and Christopher J. Fettig, Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Davis - The Effect of Hazardous Fuel Reduction Treatments in the Wildland-Urban Interface On the Amount and Distribution of Bark Beetle-Caused Tree Mortality (6,876 KB PDF File)
Christopher J. Fettig, Joel McMillin, John A. Anhold, Robert R. Borys and Steven J. Seybold, Pacific Southwest Research Station and Forest Health Protection-R3, USDA Forest Service - The Banded Elm Bark Beetle: Update on an Invasive Pest of Elms (2,219kb PDF file)
Steven J. Seybold, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station Davis
Miscellaneous Topics
Moderator – John Pronos, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Sonora
- A Review of Methods Used to Evaluate Decay in Trees (2,688kb PDF file)
Larry Costello, UC Cooperative Extension, Half Moon Bay - An Update on California Pesticide Laws and Regulations (599 kb PDF file)
Kathy Brunetti, California Department of Pesticide Regulation - Minutes of 11/9 CFPC Board Meeting; and 11/10 CFPC Business Meeting/Elections (24kb PDF file)
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Forest Pest Conditions Report
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
The CFPC, through its Editorial Committee, publishes an annual California Forest Pest Conditions Report. The Council presents it to the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection in book form. The Pest Conditions are also published online at the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Regions 5 State and Private Forestry Web site.
Topic Areas
- Insects
- Diseases
- Animal Damage
- Pollution and other abiotic factors
- Weeds