California Forest Pest Council

Thank you all for making the 60th Annual California Forest Pest Council meeting a huge success! Click on the links below to view pictures from the conference as well as the Book of Abstracts! The presenter’s Power Point presentations will be available to view soon!

Photo’s of the meeting – coming soon!

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

58th Annual Meeting of the California Forest Pest Council – 2009

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

Welcome to the CFPC Annual Meeting Registration Page.

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.

Brief Summary Information on GSOB:

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://gsob.org

California Firewood Website: http://www.firewood.ca.gov/

Don’t Move Firewood Website: http://www.dontmovefirewood.org/

GSOB Signs/Symptoms Video: http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/spf/fhp/gsob.shtml

GSOB ID Guide: GSOB Field Identification Guide

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