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Meeting Abstract Book – CFPC 2011 Book of Abstracts

“If the Forest Could Tweet:
California Forest Insect and Disease Updates”

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

9:30 – 10:30 am  Registration

10:30 –10:35  Welcome – Bob Rynearson, California Forest Pest Council Chairperson; W. M. Beaty and Associates

• Remembering Fields Cobb

10:35– 10:55  2011 Forest Conditions - Tom Smith, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

10:55 – 11:55  Special Session: Pesticide Laws and Regulations – Moderator:  Scott Johnson, Wilbur-Ellis Company

•  Pesticide Laws and Regulations Update – Inspector for a Day; Dave Bakke, USDA FS, Forest Health Protection

12:55 – 2:05  Disease Committee Meeting – Moderator:  Patricia Maloney, Disease Committee Secretary; UC Davis

• An Update on the Taxonomy, Hosts, and Current Taxonomic Research on Dwarf Mistletoes in California – Robert Mathiasen, Northern Arizona University
• Secrets of the Subterranean Pathosystem of Armillaria  – Kendra Baumgartner, USDA Agricultural Research Service
• What’s Happened to Names of Annosus Root Disease: Update on Status of H. annosum, H. parviporum, H. irregular? – Matteo Garbelotto, UC Berkeley
• High-Elevation White Pines of California: Blister Rust Surveys, Conservation, and Restoration-  Patricia Maloney, UC Davis
• Cypress Canker, Seiridium cardinale: An Overview with New Insights on Pathogen Origin -  Matteo Garbelotto, UC Berkeley
• Expanding the Host Range of the Pitch Canker Pathogen Beyond the Pinaceae: Fusarium circinatum as Symptomless Endophyte of Grasses (Poaceae) – Cassandra Swett, UC Davis
• Disease Committee Business Meeting – Tom Smith, Disease Committee Chairperson

4:00 – 5:30 Poster Session and Social

5:30 Adjourn for day

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

7:30 – 8:00 am  Registration

8:00 – 8:05 Welcome – Bob Rynearson, CFPC Chairperson; W. M. Beaty and Associates

8:05 – 9:45  New and Noteworthy – Moderator:  Julie Lydick, USDA Forest Service, State and Private Forestry

•  Goldspotted Oak Borer Update – Tom Coleman, USDA Forest Service
•  Red Palm Weevil – David Pegos, CA Department of Food and Agriculture
•  First Detection of Raffaelea canadensis on Avocado: Should we be Concerned for our Forests? - Akif Eskalen, UC Riverside
•  Sudden Oak Death Updates – Dave Rizzo, UC Davis

Two Exotic Tree Diseases with Different Biological Consequences:

•  Alder Rust in California Nurseries – Cheryl Blomquist, CA Department of Food and Agriculture
•  Phytophthora ramorum on Camphor Trees in Mill Valley, CA – Suzanne Rooney-Latham, CA Department of Food and Agriculture

9:45 – 10:15 BREAK

10:15 – 11:25  Insect Committee Meeting – Forest Insects in California – Moderator:  Danny Cluck, Insect Committee Chairperson; USDA FS, Forest Health Protection

• Pinyon Pine Needle Scale Outbreak in Nevada – Gail Durham, Nevada Division of Forestry
• The Semiochemical Saga:  Continued Research on Verbenone Plus for Small-Scale Stand Protection – Chris Dabney, USDA
  FS, Pacific Southwest Research Station
• Preliminary Results of Monitoring Mountain Pine Beetle Life Cycle Timing and Phloem Temperatures at Multiple Elevations and Latitudes in California - Sheri Smith, USDA FS, Forest Health Protection
• Insect Committee Business Meeting – Danny Cluck, Insect Committee Chairperson

11:25 – 12:00 Managing Firewood – Moderator:  Don Owen, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

•  Patterns of Firewood and Forest Pests Brought to California in 2011 – Matthew Bokach, USDA FS, Forest Health Protection

12:00 – 1:15  LUNCH  (Provided)

12:30– 1:15 CFPC Business Meeting

1:15– 2:15  Managing Hazard Trees – Moderator:  Pete Angwin, US Forest Service, Forest Health Protection

•  Illusions and Consequences in Tree Risk Assessment: When Law and Arboriculture Collide – Dennis Yniguez, Tree Decisions

Break   2:15 – 2:30

 2:30 – 3:45 Focus on Northwest California Forest Health  – Moderator:  Greg Guisti, UC Cooperative Extension,
Mendocino County

• Redwood Symposium, Bishop Pine Decline – Greg Guisti, UCCE Mendocino
• Black Bear Damage to Conifer Plantations: A Growing Concern for Forest Management in Hoopa and Beyond – Mark Higley, Hoopa Tribe
• Bear and Bait Trap Video – Mark Higley, Hoopa Tribe
• Forest Pathogen Dynamics in Old-Growth White fir/Douglas-fir Forests of Northwestern California – Ashley Hawkins, UC Davis
• Heart Rot Fungi and Plant Community Composition in Coniferous Forests of Northwestern California – Nikos Najarian, Humboldt State University

3:45 – 4:30  Special Papers – Moderator:  Kim Camilli, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

• Pityophthorus boycei: A Little Known Twig Beetle - Martin MacKenzie, USDA Forest Service
• Mapping the risk of establishment and spread of sudden oak death in California -  Danny Cluck, USDA FS, Forest Health Protection

4:30  ADJOURN

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2009 California Forest Pest Conditions Report