California Forest Pest Council

2010 Insect, Disease, Animal Damage, & Weed Committees Tour and Golf Tournament

This year we are combining the Insect, Disease, Animal Damage and the Weed tours for one extraordinary tour. There will be many things to see and learn from this tour!

Registration information please click on the links below:

Golf Tournament Date: July 20^th

Field Tour Dates: July 21^st and 22^nd

To Register online, please click on the link below and you will be directed to Eventbrite payments page:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/696916496

To view the photos at full size, click on the link below

2009 Weed Tour Photos

Continuing Education Credits

California DPR

7/15/09
3.5 hours (all “other”)

7/16/09
4.5 hours  (.5 laws and regs, .5 aerial, and 3.5 other)

SAF
7/15/09
4.5 hours Category 1-CF

7/16/09
3.5 hours Category 1-CF

Oregon
7/15/09
4 hours

7/16/09
4 hours

Idaho
7/15/09
4 credits

7/16/09
4 credits

The 2009 CFPC Insect and Disease Field Trip will be held Wednesday, July 29, on the Descanso Ranger District of the Cleveland National Forest.

CFPC Insect and Disease Trip Announcement and Hotel Information

Please Save the Date!
The field trip will prominantly feature the goldspotted oak borer, newly discovered in 2008 in Southern California, believed exotic, and associated with high mortality.
Also other pests and pathogens of our southernmost forested lands.

Topics for field discussion identified so far:

1)  Goldspotted Oak Borer: symptoms, damage, hosts
2)  Impacts the mortality has had and may have on the Cleveland NF
3)  Trapping studies : when and how far does GSOB move
4)  Do drought stress and diseases play roles in GSOB attack and mortality
5)  GSOB Firewood, trunk, and chip movement and utilization issues: solarization tests of firewood
6)  Other insects affecting oak twigs, leaves, bole
7)  History and ecology of oak stands in area / Oak management
8)  Regeneration of forests after recent fires
9)  California Flatheaded Borer damage in Jeffrey Pine
10) Annosus root disease in Jeffrey Pine
11) Leafy and  Dwarf mistletoes

July 15th and July 16th

Field Tour Registration Form

Golf Tournament Registration Form

The 2008 Weed Tour is tentatively set for July 16-17 in the Eureka area.

July 16th and July 17th

Field Tour Registration Form

July 15, 2008

Golf Tournament Registration Form

Shasta & Siskiyou Counties

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Click here for the announcement and directions

The 2007 Weed Tour was held on July 18-19in the Quincy, Sierra Valley, and Truckee areas.

The 2006 Weed Tour was held on July 19-20 in the Fall River Mills area of Shasta and Lassen Counties.

The 2005 Weed Tour was held on July 20-21 in Calaveras and Amador Counties east of Jackson.