2011 California Forest Pest Council 60th Annual Meeting – Presentation and Abstracts now Available!
Monday, November 21st, 2011
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
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