California Forest Pest Council

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

Integrated Pest Management In Western Forests

Agenda and Registration (PDK 261KB)

Facilitated Vegetation Management Discussion

Keynote Speaker: IPM, What is it and why use it?

Dr.  Joe DiTomaso, UC Davis

Future Threats to Western Forests

Susan Frankel, Pacific Southwest Research Station

Goat Vegetation Management

Wes Woolery, Wookery Vegetation Management, Hat Creek, CA

Managing Insects and Disease in Commercial Plantations

Bill Morrison, Soper Wheeler, LLC, Strawberry Valley, CA

Semiochemical Sabatoge: Exploiting Bark Beetle Behavioral Chemicals to Protect Forest Stands

Nancy Gillette, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Albany, CA

BASF Aerial Site Preparation

Harry Quicke, BASF Corp., Auburn, Alabama

Evaluation of Gopher Control Methods

Gregory Guisti, Forests & Wildlands Ecology Advisor, UC Coop Ext., Lakeport, CA

Stream Buffers: Can we get good Heat Protection with Less Buffer?

Dr. Mike Newton & Liz Cole, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Using the MtnRT Forecast System for Forest Management, Fire Weather, Agricultural Weather, and Precipitation.

Alan D. Fox, Fox Weather LLC, Fortuna, CA

Herbicide Resistance and Chemical Vegetation Management

Carol Mallory-Smith, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Managing Plantations in a Fire-Prone World. Can You Have Your Carbon and Use It, Too?

Dr. Robert F. Powers, Jianwei Zhang, & Dave Young, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Redding, CA

Seedling Caliper vs. Vegetation Control

Eric Dinger, VMRC Assistant Director, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Beyond Nitrogen

Doug Maguire and Doug Mainwaring, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Swiss Needle Cast

David Shaw, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Sudden Oak Death in Oregon

Alan Kanaskie, Oregon Department of Forestry, Salem, OR

Laws & Regulations

Label Registration Process

Jeff Birk, BASF Corp., RTP, North Carolina

Aerial Application A to Z

John Mateski, Western Helicopter

Pesticide Container Disposal

Brad Bittleston, Interstate Ag Plastics, Buttonwillow, CA