California Forest Pest Council

CALIFORNIA FOREST PEST COUNCIL
54^th 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 15^th 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 16^th 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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