California Forest Pest Council

The California Forest Pest Council's 72nd Annual Meeting

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Theme: Toward Healthy Forests in California: Marking Change, Fostering Resilience

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Dates:  November 14th & 15th, 2023

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Location: UC Davis, Putah Creek Lodge

Putah Creek Lodge is located on the UC Davis Campus on Garrod Dr. by the Unitrans Building and across the creek.
See location on the map here

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Registration:

• Early bird online registration ends October 13st at 11:59 pm PST.

• Standard online registration ends November 8th at 5:00 pm PST.

• Standard registration fees will be accepted at the door and can be paid by cash, check, or credit.

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Don Dahlsten Student Grant: For more information and for students interested in applying, click here.

Agenda: Toward Healthy Forests in California: Marking Change, Fostering Resilience

Download agenda here

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14

1:00-1:15 Meeting Introduction and Housekeeping—Bob Rynearson, CFPC Chair

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1:15 -2:00 Disease Committee Meeting

1. Coniophora puteana and redwood decay after the CZU Complex - Elizabeth (Liz) Rennie, UC Santa Cruz

2. The white pine blister rust pathogen: Range expansion in southern CA — Charlie Barnes, USDA Forest Service Region 5 Forest Health Protection

3. Committee meeting – 5 min.

2:00-2:45  Insect Committee Meeting

1. Observations of balsam woolly adelgid and other pests on north coast grand firs—Wallis Robinson, UCCE Humboldt-Del Norte

2. Oak acorn pest issues and controlling them using Rx fire -Michael Jones, UCCE Mendocino-Lake-Sonoma

3. Insect committee business meeting – 5 min.

2:45 BREAK

3:00 to 4:15 Tour of UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology - Leader – Sebastian Fajardo, UC Davis

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4:15 – 4:30 BREAK

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4:30-5:30 Pesticide Updates

1. Forest pesticide update - Stacey Clark, USDA Forest Service Region 5

2. Reforestation for non-industrial landowners: what’s new - Danielle Lindler, Jefferson Resource/CFPC

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5:30-6:30 Evening Social and Poster Session

 
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15

8:30 - 9:45 am Forest Health Year in Review, Part I 

1. USDA Forest Service, 2023 Aerial Detection of Tree Mortality Survey - Jeff Moore, US Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, Forest Health Protection

2. California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Plant Pest Diagnostic Center 2023 Annual report - Cheryl Blomquist, CDFA PPDC

3. Mediterranean oak borer – Citrus Heights and other expansions, legislative action – Curtis Ewing, Cal Fire 

4. Emerald Ash Borer action plan and monitoring - Joanna Fisher, California Department of Food and Agriculture

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9:45  BREAK

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10:00 - 11:30 am Forest Health Year in Review, Part II: California Forest Health Field Notes

Moderator: Susan Frankel, US Forest Service, PSW Research Station

1. Meinecke’s Dilemma – Martin MacKenzie, US Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Sonora 

2. Observations of red fir decline and die-off in the Southern Sierras – Beverly Bulaon, US Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Sonora

3. Checking the Russian Wilderness for spruce beetle – Cynthia Snyder, US Forest Health Service, Forest Health Protection, Redding

4. Pathogen Observations in Northwestern California - Ashley Hawkins, US Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Redding

5. Pathogen Observations in Northeastern California - Bill Woodruff, US Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Susanville

6. Extreme Sitka spruce defoliation in the north coast in 2023 – Chris Lee, CAL FIRE

7. Emerging oak issues of the Southwest – Charles Barnes, US Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, San Bernardino and Nicholas P. Wilhelmi,  US Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Arizona Zone

8. Acute oak decline in Southern California – Tom Smith and Kim Corella, CALFIRE

9. Acute oak decline and other emerging bacterial diseases of trees in California -  Sebastian Albu, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services - Plant Pest Diagnostics Lab, Sacramento

11:30 - 12:30  Student presentations 

1. Entomology 

   1. Wildfire effects on yellowjacket wasp communities in mixed-conifer forests of the Californian central Sierra Nevada - Gabe Foote, UC Davis​​​

   2. Impacts and Management of Western Pine Beetle in the Sierra Nevada During a Period of Rapid Change - Crystal Homicz, UC Davis​

2. Pathology​

   1. ​​Assessing the Effects of Sudden Oak Death on Tree Species Composition in a Mixed Evergreen Forest - Alex Martin - Sonoma State University​​

   2. Diversity of fungal pathogens causing Pine cankers and dieback in Southern California - Marcelo I. Bustamante, UC Davis​

   3. Phylogenetic and phylogenomic approaches for the discovery of a new Seiridium species - Edoardo Scali, UC Berkeley

12:30-1:30 LUNCH

1:30-1:50 CFPC Business Meeting

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1:50-3:00  Climate, Pests, and Forest Resilience  

1. Western pine beetle voltinism in a changing California climate -  Barbara Bentz, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station

2. Carbon stored in live ponderosa pines in the Sierra Nevada will not return to pre-drought (2012) levels during the 21st century due to bark beetle outbreaks and Warming increased bark beetle-induced tree mortality by 30% during an extreme drought in California. -  Zachary J. Robbins, North Carolina State University

3. Forest restoration treatments for sudden oak death: balancing carbon, fuels, and capacity – Richard Cobb, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

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​​3:00  BREAK

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3:00-3:55  Climate, Pests, and Forest Resilience  (continued)

1. Reforesting California: Challenges and Successes—Jimi Scheid, CAL FIRE

2. Reducing risk of wildfire damage to plantations – Bob Rynearson, CA Forest Pest Council/Beatty & Associates (retired)

                   - Video: Retired CalFire Siskiyou Unit Battalion Chief Darin Quigley’s audio/video where 2021 Dixie Fire burned from USFS into Beaty managed 2007 Moonlight Fire plantation

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3:55- 4:40 Mega-Disturbance in California Forests

1. Mega-disturbances cause rapid decline of mature conifer forest habitat in California—Zachary Steel, UC Berkeley

2. The 2020 California fire season: a year like no other, a return to the past or a harbinger of the future?— Ali Paulson, Forest Ecologist, Humboldt-Toiyabe NF

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 4:40 -5:00 Meeting ends​

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Posters: If you are interested in submitting a poster, please contact Leif Mortenson, leif.mortenson@usda.gov, for guidelines and sizing information.

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Parking:

Parking is $16/day and the easiest and closest parking is located off of Garrod Dr - Putah Creek Lodge parking.  The Putah Creek lodge parking is a small lot, there are two larger lots, parking lot 50 and 55, a bit further down Garrod Dr on the left. These parking lot are a 5 minute walk to the meeting location at Putah Creek Lodge. 

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• Putah Creek Lodge parking is a small parking lot and would like to keep available for folks with limited mobility.

• Putah Creek Lodge, Lot 50 and 55 need permits purchased through the AMP Park app. Download the AMP Park app here for Android phones, or iPhones.   For iPhones, ensure IOS is updated to IOS 17 for the app to work.​​

• You can also purchase the parking permit online at https://aimsmobilepay.com/. 

  • ​You will need to create an account and add vehicle information to purchase the permit.

  • Permit is purchased for the same day and can not be purchased for a future date.

• A valid permit is required to park on campus and is valid for the date purchased, Monday-Friday from 7 a.m.–10 p.m

• No need to put a receipt or permit on your vehicle.

• UC Davis Parking Map 

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CEUs:  DPR, ISA and SAF continuing education credits will be applied for.