What’s Ailing California’s Forests?

November 17 -18, 2009

Heidrick Ag History Center http://www.aghistory.org/

1962 Hays Lane, Woodland, CA 95776

530-666-9700

Meeting Overview: An update of new and ongoing forest health issues in California’s forests will be presented and discussed.  Highlights include updates on the goldspotted oak borer, thousand cankers on walnut, and a “Firewood:  A risk to California Forest Health?” panel.  There will also be a poster session, social, and diagnostic “show and tell” with forest entomologists and plant pathologists.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

9:00     Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:45     Welcome – Chairperson Rynearson, Audio

10:00 – 11:15  Insect Committee Meeting, Forest Insects in California
Moderator:  Beverly Bulaon, Insect Committee Chairperson

A Century of Jeffrey Pine Beetle-Caused Mortality in Southern Lake Tahoe (1912-2009) Joel Egan, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection.  Slide Show,  Audio

Evaluation of Multiple Funnel Traps and Stand Characteristics for Estimating Western Pine Beetle-Caused Tree Mortality Christopher J. Hayes, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station.  Slide Show, Audio

Managing Slash to Minimize Colonization of Residual Trees by Ips and Other Bark Beetle Species Christopher J. Fettig, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station.  Slide Show, Audio

Verbenone-Plus: A New Tool for Protecting Trees from Bark Beetle Attack Stephen R. McKelvey, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station.  Slide Show,  Audio

Insect Committee Business – Committee Chairperson Bulaon, Audio

11:15 – 11:45  Laws and Regulations
Moderator:  Don Owen, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

California’s Enforcement Response Regulations – Scott Johnson, Wilbur-Ellis Company.  Slide Show,  Audio

LUNCH PROVIDED     12:00

1:00 – 3:10  Disease Committee Meeting – Forest Diseases in California
Moderator:  Paul Zambino, Disease Committee Chairperson

New Wood Decay Diagnostics Program – Matteo Garbelotto, UC Berkeley.  Slide Show

An Introduction to the National Ornamental Research Nursery at Dominican University Cheryl Blomquist, CA Department of Food and Agriculture.  Slide Show, Audio

Climbing the Disease Curve – Seasonal Variation in Phytophthora lateralis Sporeload in Southwest Oregon Watersheds – Frank Betlejewski, USDA Forest Service, Southwest Oregon Forest Insect and Disease Service Center.  Slide Show, Audio

Spatial and Ecological Analysis of Red Fir Decline in California Using FIA Data, Leif A. Mortenson, Oregon State University.   Slide Show, Audio

Sudden Oak Death in Redwood Forests: Vegetation Dynamics in the Wake of Tanoak Decline – Benjamin Ramage, UC Berkeley.  Slide Show

Mortality of Douglas-Fir at the Southern Limit of its Range, Martin MacKenzie, USDA Forest Service.  Slide Show, Audio

Effects of De-Icing Salts on Roadside Trees in the Lake Tahoe Basin, Isabel Munck, University of Nevada

Disease Committee Business – Committee Chairperson Zambino, Audio

3:10 – 4:30 Poster Session, “Stump the Experts,” and Social

What’s wrong with my tree?  Stump the Experts II

Forest entomologists and plant pathologists will be available to diagnose specimens.  Participants are encouraged to bring samples and pictures of tree damage for examination.  (Please carefully safeguard specimens so pests are not introduced to Woodland or points along the way.)

ADJOURN     4: 30 pm

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

7:45     Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45     Welcome – Chairperson Rynearson, Audio

9:00 – 10:00  What’s Ailing California’s Forests?
Moderator:  Chairperson Rynearson

2009  California Forest Pest Conditions Overview: An Aerial View of Forest Pest Activity, Zachary Heath, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection.  Slide Show, Audio

New Snags for Forest Health from the Goldspotted Oak Borer in Southern California, Tom Coleman, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection.  Slide Show, Audio

Thousand Cankers:  Status in California, Janine Hasey, Farm Advisor, UC Cooperative Extension.  Slide Show, Audio

Light Brown Apple Moth: Current Conditions and Activities in California, Bob Dowell, CA Department of Food and Agriculture.  Slide Show, Audio

BREAK     10:00  – 10:30

10:30 – 12:00   What’s Ailing California’s Forests?, continued
Moderator:  Vice-Chairperson Morrison

Sudden Oak Death: What’s new? – Kamyar Aram, UC Davis.  Slide Show, Audio

Palm Wilt and Other Diseases Affecting Phoenix Species in California, Suzanne Latham, CA Department of Food and Agriculture.  Slide Show,  Audio

Black Oak Leaf Miner Species Determination. Eriocraniella aurosparsella (Walsingham) – Danny Cluck, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection.  Slide Show, Audio

Current Fir Mortality in California: An Overview, Beverly Bulaon, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection.  Slide Show,  Audio

News from the Diagnostician’s Desk, Cheryl Blomquist, CA Department of Food and Agriculture.  Slide Show, Audio

California’s New Invasive Species Council – Doug Johnson, CA Invasive Plant Council.  Slide Show, Audio

LUNCH PROVIDED     12:00

1:00 – 1:30  CFPC 2009 Business Meeting and Elections
Chairperson Rynearson  Slide Show

1:30 – 2:45  Firewood: A Risk to California Forest Health?
Moderator:  Martin MacKenzie, USDA Forest Service

Introduction – Martin MacKenzie

Insects Detected in Firewood, Roger Cline, CA Department of Food and Agriculture, Border Protection Stations.  Slide Show, Audio

Firewood Movement: A Probable Introduction Pathway for One of California’s Newest Pests – Tom Coleman, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection.  Slide Show, Audio

Current Firewood Regulations in California, Dorthea Zadig, CA Department of Food and Agriculture.  Slide Show

Progress Towards a Federal Firewood Strategy, Helene Wright, USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service.  Slide Show

Best Management Practices to Prevent Movement of Insects and Pathogens on Firewood Gary Man, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection.  Slide Show, Audio

Discussion – Led by Martin MacKenzie, Audio

BREAK     2:45 – 3:00

3:00 – 3:45  Aspen and Alder Issues
Moderator:  Julie Lydick, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Pacific Southwest Region

A Review of Aspen Decline with a Focus on California, Toni Lyn Morelli, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station.  Slide Show, Audio

Phytophthora siskiyouensis on Alders in Southern California: An Update, Michael D. Coffey, UC Riverside and Deborah Mathews, UC Riverside.  Slide Show

3:45 – 4:30  Invited Papers – Other Forest Health Challenges
Moderator:  Tom Smith, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests, Malcolm North, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Sierra Nevada Research Center.  Slide Show, Audio

The Boomerang Project:  An Invasive Bark Beetle and its Fungal Hitch-Hikers, Nancy Gillette, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station.  Slide Show, Audio

Effect of Site and Silvicultural Treatment on Insect Pests and Diseases of Young Ponderosa Pine – Danny Norlander and Dave Shaw, Oregon State University.  Slide Show, Audio

Adjourn 4:30PM

• The Continental Dialogue on Non?Native Forest Insects and Diseases (“Dialogue”) – APHIS’ Agricultural Quarantine Inspection User Fees
• Board of Forestry and Fire Protection Memo to Del Walters – Cal Fire Program Nursery Program Cuts
• Board of Forestry and Fire Protection – GSOB Prevention of Spread Justification
• Board of Forestry and Fire Protection – GSOB Informative Memo 8-25-09

The Abstract book for the meeting is posted below:

CFPC 2009 Book of Abstracts

Date:
November 17-18, 2009

Location:
Heidrick Agriultural Heritage Center
1962 Hays Lane
Woodlands, CA 95776.

Hotel:
Holiday Inn Express,
2070 Freeway Drive,
Woodland, CA 95776
530-662-7750

A Block of rooms have been reserved for this meeting. All Reservations must be made by phone. Individuals requesting a government rate will be asked to provide verifications upon check in.  When making your reservations explain that you are with the California Forest Pest Council (CFPC) Meeting and thenrequest either the “General”, “Federal”, or “State” rates.

Don Dahlsten Memorial Fund

Call for Posters

Stump the Experts Flyer

CFPC Annual Meeting Registration and Agenda Information

CFPC Annual Meeting Registration, Agenda and Hotel Information

1) To register online please click on the link below
Online Registration

2) Check payments are also accepted by printing off the registration form (58th Annual Meeting Registration Form and
mailing in the registration.

Please make checks payable to CFPC and return to:
Kim Camilli
CDF Fire Station #36
4050 Branch Rd
Paso Robles, CA 93446.

PLEASE NOTE THE EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS NOVEMBER 3, 2009.

Continuing Education Credit Hours Given:

Society of American Foresters:
Insect Committee Mtg on 11/17 – 1.5 hours of Category 1-CF
Disease Committee Mtg on 11/17 – 2 hours of Category 1-CF
CFPC Mtg on 11/18 – 5.5 hours of Category 1-CF

International Society of Arboriculture:
11/17 – 3 credit hours
11/18 – 7 credit hours

Department of Pesticide Regulation:
Will be posted here when available.

2009 Insect and Disease Tour Photo’s

The goldspotted oak borer (GSOB), Agrilus coxalis Waterhouse, was first detected in 2004 in San Diego County California during an exotic woodborer survey.  In 2008 it was found in the same county attacking coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia, California black oak,  Q. keloggii and canyon live oak, Q. chrysolepis.  The area of infestation to date in southern California around the Cleveland National Forest.  These insects are aggressive and attack seemingly healthy trees.  The GSOB larvae feed under the bark primarily at the interface of the sapwood and phloem on the main stem and larger branches.  Larvae kill patches and strips of phloem and cambium, which result in limb and branch dieback and eventualy tree death.

Board of Forestry and Fire Protection Information:

A presentation on GSOB was presented to the Resource Protection Committee (RPC) on the status of the recently introduced invasive insect. The RPC requested that the CFPC advise the Board of Forestry & Fire Protection on possible actions that the Board could take to address this issue.

For more information on GSOB  and the memo and cover letter to the Board of Forestry by CFPC please see information below:

GSOB website: http://groups.ucanr.org/GSOB/index.cfm

Tree Note 31: Goldspotted Oak Borer

CFPC and Board of Forestry & Fire Protection: Memo to Board of Forestry, Cover letter to the Board of Forestry

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

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

Field Tour Registration Form

Golf Tournament Registration Form

Featured Topic: California Forest Health – A Practical Approach

November 18-19, 2008

Heidrick Ag. Center
1962 Hays Lane, Woodland, CA

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Tuesday, November 18

Animal Damage: Recognizing the Habitat Connection

This informal mini-course will cover the basic concepts of how habitat structure and composition affects animal
behavior and then move into how silvicultural practices that produce appropriate habitat characteristics elicit
damage behaviors.

Speaker – Gregory A. Giusti, UCCE Lake County Director, Forest Advisor, RPF#2709 Wildlands Ecology Advisor,
IHRMP Advisor and Affiliate-College of Natural Resources UCB; gagiusti@ucdavis.edu

Insect Committee Meeting – Beverly Bulaon, CFPC Insect Committee Chairperson

Invasion of Redhaired Pine Bark Beetle into the Southern California National Forest System Following Fires
Deguang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station and UC Davis. dgliu@ucdavis.edu

Protecting Individual Pines from Bark Beetles: Systemic Insecticides and Semiochemicals
Sheri L. Smith, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Susanville, CA ssmith@fs.fed.us and Brian L. Strom,
USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Pineville, LA. brianstrom@fs.fed.us.

Bark Beetles, Fires and Fuel Management Treatments
Christopher J. Fettig, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Davis. cfettig@fs.fed.us

Insect committee business meeting

Disease Committee Meeting - Paul Zambino – CFPC Disease Committee Chairperson

Genome Approaches for Forest Health Management
David Neale, UC-Davis, Dept. of Plant Sciences, dbneale@ucdavis.edu

Phytophthora cinnamomi: An Emerging Pathogen in California Forests
Elizabeth Fitchner, UC-Davis, Plant Pathology Department, ejfichtner@ucdavis.edu and Ted Swiecki, Phytosphere
Research, phytosphere@phytosphere.com

Pitch Canker Status and Research Update
Tom Gordon, UC-Davis, Plant Pathology Department, trgordon@ucdavis.edu

Disease committee business meeting

Poster session, “Stump the Experts” and Social

What’s wrong with my tree? Stump the Experts

Entomologists and pathologists will be available to diagnose specimens. Participants are encouraged to bring samples
and pictures of tree damage for examination. (Please carefully safeguard specimens so pests are not introduced to
Woodland or points along the way.)

Diagnosticians:

California Department of Food and Agriculture Pathologists (Sacramento):

Cheryl Blomquist, CBlomquist@cdfa.ca.gov;
Suzanne Latham, SLatham@cdfa.ca.gov;
Kathy Kosta, kkosta@cdfa.ca.gov.

USDA Forest Service and CAL Fire Entomologists :

Don Owen, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Redding
Beverly Bulaon, USDA Forest Service, Stanislaus National Forest, Forest Health Protection, Sonora, bbulaon@fs.fed.us

Wednesday, November 19 – General Session
Welcome – Bob Rynearson, Chairman, CA Forest Pest Council; W.M. Beaty and Associates, McArthur, CA. bobr@wmbeaty.com

Featured Topic: Case Study in Managing Forest Health Issues: The Lake Tahoe Basin
Moderator: Hugh Safford, Regional ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo. hughsafford@fs.fed.us

The Fate of Tahoe Basin forests after the Angora Fire
Hugh Safford, Regional ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo. hughsafford@fs.fed.us

Fire Management and Forest Restoration in the Lake Tahoe Basin
John Pickett, The Sugar Pine Foundation. firesafechapters@yahoo.com

Forest Health and Environmental Change in the Lake Tahoe Basin
Patricia Maloney, UC-Davis, Department of Plant Pathology. patricia-maloney@sbcglobal.net

Featured Topic: 2008 New and Noteworthy Forest Health Issues
Moderator: Mike Bohne, formerly, USDA- Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Sacramento. Currently, Forest Health Group Leader, Durham, NH. mbohne@fs.fed.us

2008 California Forest Conditions Overview: An Aerial View of Forest Pest Activity
Zachary Heath, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Sacramento, zheath@fs.fed.us; and Mike Bohne, USDA
Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Durham, NH. mbohne@fs.fed.us

Gold-Spotted Oak Borer in Southern California
Steven Seybold, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Davis. sseybold@fs.fed.us

Biogeography of San Diego Co. Oak Mortality
Thomas Scott, University of California Cooperative Extension, Riverside. Thomas.Scott@ucr.edu

An Overview of the 2008 Fire Year
Ken Pimlott, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CALFIRE). Ken.Pimlott@fire.ca.gov

Sudden Oak Death Update
David Rizzo, UC-Davis, Plant Pathology Department, dmrizzo@ucdavis.edu and Janice Alexander, CA Oak Mortality
Task Force, UC Cooperative Extension, Marin County. jalexander@ucdavis.edu

CA Aspen: Distribution and Health
Kenneth W. Tate, Rangeland Watershed Specialist, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California – Davis.
kwtate@ucdavis.edu

Walnut Twig Beetle/Thousand cankers
Steven Seybold, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Davis. sseybold@fs.fed.us

CA Forest Pest Council annual business meeting

Featured Topic: Innovative Forest Health Monitoring Techniques
Moderator: Lisa Fischer, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Davis. lisafischer@fs.fed.us

Using MODIS Imagery to Enhance Aerial Detection Survey
Frank Sapio, USDA Forest Service, Forest Heath Technology Enterprise Team, Fort Collins, CO. fsapio@fs.fed.us

Emerald Ash Borer Biosurveillance, using Cerceris fumipennis to Detect Buprestidae
Michael Bohne, Forest Health Group Leader, USDA Forest Service, Durham, NH. mbohne@fs.fed.us

Lichens as a Forest Health Indicator in California
Sarah Jovan, USDA-Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis. Portland, OR. sjovan@fs.fed.us

Molecular Techniques for Forest Health Monitoring
Rachel Linzer, UC Berkeley, Environmental Policy, Science and Management. rwarner@nature.berkeley.edu

Featured Topic: On the Ground Management of Forest Insects and Pathogens
Moderator: Don Owen, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Redding. don.owen@fire.ca.gov

Factors Influencing the Abundance and Severity of Recent Bark Beetle Infestations in Coniferous Forests of Western US: What Can be Done?
Christopher J. Fettig, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Davis. cfettig@fs.fed.us

Forest Thinning and Bark Beetle-Caused Mortality in the Warner Mountains
Joel Egan, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station and Colorado State Univ. jegan@fs.fed.us or
joelegan@holly.colostate.edu

Managing Insects and Diseases in Commercial Plantations
Paul Violett, pviolett@soperwheeler.com and Bill Morrison, Soper-Wheeler, Strawberry Valley, CA.
bmorrison@soperwheeler.com

Ongoing and Upcoming Pesticide use Injunctions and their Impacts
Polo Moreno. CA Department of Pesticide Regulation, Pest Management and Licensing Branch – Endangered Species,
Sacramento. PMORENO@cdpr.ca.gov

Adjourn

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