CFPC 70th Annual Meeting - Presentations
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CFPC: 70 Years of Connecting Science and Management for Healthy Forests
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Video of presentations for Wednesday.
12:30 – 2:00 PM – Insect Committee Meeting
12:30 Welcome/Introduction – Bob Rynearson, Chair, California Forest Pest Council
12:40 Invasive shot hole borer monitoring and management in the Inland Empire, southern California – Adrian
Poloni, Inland Empire Resource Conservation District
1:00 Indigenous and prescribed burn potential for management of goldspotted oak borer – Joelene Tamm,
University of California, Riverside
1:20 Changes in fuel loads following the recent western pine beetle outbreak in the central and southern Sierra
Nevada—Crystal Homicz, University of California, Davis
1:40 Mission possible? The quest to predict the next high-impact, non-native forest insects on North American trees
Ashley Schulz, Mississippi State University
2:15-3:30 PM – Disease Committee Meeting
2:15 Questioning the value of borate dressings – Martin Mackenzie, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection,
Sonora
2:40 The role of canker fungi in 2020 - 2021 Bay Area Tree Decline – Matteo Garbelotto, University of California,
Berkeley, and University of California Cooperative Extension
3:05 A review of common canker pathogens affecting natural and cultivated woody plants in California – Florent
Trouillas, University of California, Davis, Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center
3:30 – 4:30 PM – Weeds and Wildlife
3:30 Update on pesticides for forestry use – Stacey Clark, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Vallejo
3:50 A 30-year private project successfully restoring pure native annual reproduction in both forests and
grasslands, on a property with a 200-year weed history – Mark van de Pol, private landowner/author, Santa
Cruz County
4:10 Porcupines in California: historic and current status – Tim Bean, Cal Poly SLO
4:30 PM Adjourn for the day
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Video of presentations for Thursday
1:00-2:05 PM - 2021 in Review
1:00 Aerial detection survey recap of 2021 CA forest health conditions – Jeff Moore, USDA Forest Service, Forest
Health Monitoring
1:10 Updates: ISHB, GSOB, MOB, SOD, and pitch canker—Kim Corella, California Department of Forestry & Fire
Protection
1:25 Xylella fastidiosa subspecies in California – Sebastian Albu, California Department of Food & Agriculture
1:40 2021 Update on Lymantria dispar – Joanna Fisher, California Department of Food & Agriculture
1:50 CFPC Business Meeting including a remembrance of Tom Gordon - Bob Rynearson, Chair, California Forest Pest
Council and Kim Corella, Pitch Canker Task Force and California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
2:05 – 3:35 PM - Panel: Forest Health Management in California: Important Issues
2:05 Land ownership impacts post-fire forest regeneration in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests—Connor
Stephens, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2:25 Solistalgia: forest landowners, post-fire regeneration, and loss—Lynn Huntsinger, University of California,
Berkeley
2:55 Burgeoning biomass: opportunities to improve forest ecosystem health—Deborah Page-Dumroese, USDA
Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
3:15 OPR Woody Feedstock Aggregation Pilot Program—Michael Maguire, Governor’s Office of Planning and
Research
3:35 – 4:30 PM – Trees and Water Stress
3:35 Douglas-fir encroachment reduces drought resistance in Oregon white oak of northern California—Jill
Beckmann, Northern Arizona University
3:50 A physiological perspective on conifer drought responses in northern California – Wallis Robinson, University of
California Cooperative Extension, Humboldt-Del Norte Counties
4:05 Dependence of forest vulnerability to drought timescales in California – Gavin Madakumbura, University of
California, Los Angeles
4:20 Water stress monitoring and mitigation in blue oak – Curtis Ewing, California Department of Forestry & Fire
Protection
4:30 Adjourn
Annual Meeting Poster Session: To view the posters please click on the images below.
