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CALIFORNIA FOREST PEST COUNCIL
54^th ANNUAL MEETING

California Forest Health Issues:
An Update and Focus on the Southern Sierra Nevada

November 15-16, 2005 

Heidrick Ag. Center
1962 Hays Lane, Woodland, CA


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Insect Committee 11/15    Disease Committee 11/15    General Session 11/16


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November 15^th 2005

 INSECT COMMITTEE MEETING- Chris Fettig, Chair

• Systemic Insecticide Injections for Protection of Conifers Against Bark Beetles
  Donald M. Grosman, Texas Forest Service, Forest Pest Management
   

• Development of Semiochemical-Based Tools for Protecting Ponderosa Pine from Western Pine Beetle Infestations in Northern California
  Stephen R. McKelvey, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
  
  

•  Refining the Aggregation Pheromone of the California Five-spined ips, Ips paraconfusus, in the Central Sierra Nevada
  Steven J. Seybold, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
  
  

•  Development of An Attractant for the Banded Elm Bark Beetle, Scolytus schevyrewi: Results of Field Tests in Reno, NV and Lakewood, CO
  Jana C. Lee, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station and UC Davis
   

• Effects Of Nitrogen Additions On Insects Of Pine And Oak
  Michele Eatough Jones, Department of Entomology, UC Riverside
   

• Insect Committee Business meeting -- Election of committee officers
  

DISEASE COMMITTEE MEETING-Bill Woodruff, Chair

Bill Woodruff, Chair, CFPC Disease Committee
USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Susanville  

• 5-Needle-Pine Blister Rust Survey in California
  Joan Dunlap, USDA Forest Service, and Patricia Maloney, UC Davis
   
  

• Survival and Viability of the Pitch Canker Fungus
  Chris Friel, UC Davis
  
  

• Pitch Canker Update
  Tom Gordon, UC Davis
  
  

• Sudden Oak Death Update
  Janice Alexander, COMTF
  
  

• Dwarf Mistletoe Resistance Program
  Paul Stover and Dennis Ringnes, USDA Forest Service
  
  

•  Disease Business meeting -- Election of committee officers

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Wednesday, November 16^th 2005 -- General Session

California Forest Health Issues: An Update and Focus on the Southern Sierra Nevada

•  2005 California Forest Pest Conditions
  Michael Bohne, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection
  
   

•  An Overview of the Ecology of the Southern Sierras with a Focus on Insects and Pathogens
  Brian Mattos,  Yosemite National Park
  
  

•  Canopy Gaps and Root Diseases in the Yosemite Valley
  Dave Rizzo and Garey Slaughter, Department of Plant Pathology, UC Davis
  
  

•  Fungi, Fire and the Fate of Sugar Pine in the Southern Sierra Nevada
   Phillip van Mantgem, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center
   

•  Douglas-Fir Tussock Moth Status in California
  Beverly Bulaon, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection 
  
  

•  Thinning Using the Uneven-aged Management System, The Kings River Project
  Mark Smith, USDA Forest Service, Sierra National Forest 
  
  

•  Incense Cedar Growth Studies and Observed Mortality
  Freider Schurr, UC-Blodgett Forest
  
  
  2005 Forest Health Issues Update

•  Asian Longhorned Beetle
  Joan Scheiman, California Department of Food and Agriculture
  
  

•  Mediterranean Pine Engraver, Orthotomicus
   Jana Lee, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
  
  

•  Southern California Bark Beetle Update
   Glenn Barley, Kevin Turner and Thomas Porter, California Department  of Forestry and Fire Protection
   

•  True Fir Mortality in the Central Sierras
   John  Pronos, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection and
   

•  True Mistletoe in White Fir Stands In the Central Sierra Nevada
   Ed Struffenegger, Sierra Pacific Industries
   

•  Oak Anthracnose
   Don Owen, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
   

•  Introduction to the Western Wildlands Environmental Threat Assessment Center
   Terry Shaw, USDA-Forest Service, Senior Scientists, Western Wildlands Environmental Threat Assessment Center
  
  

•  Use of Pheromone Releasing Flakes for Individual Tree Protection
   Nancy Gillette, Pacific Southwest Research Station
  
  

•  An Update on Pesticide Laws and Regulations
   Patricia Lesky, Deputy Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer, Amador County Department of Agriculture
   

• Minutes of 11/16 CFPC Business Meeting/Elections (PDF file)
  
  
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