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Program Agenda
Conference Information
Special Workshops
Committee Meeting Announcements
2002 Committee Meeting Minutes
Special Papers or Posters
Call for Nominations,WIFDWC Outstanding Achievement Award
 
 
 

Document Last Modified On: 8/6/03

 
 
 
Program Agenda.
 
Mon   Tues   Wed   Thurs   Fri   
 

Monday - August 18, 2003

 

12:30 - 4:00

  Nursery Pathology Workshop, J.H. Stone Nursery Field Trip

 

  Diane Hildebrand, chair

4:00 - 5:30

  Nursery Pathology Workshop, J.H. Stone Nursery Tour

 

  Diane Hildebrand, chair

2:00 - 4:00

  Root Disease Model Workshop/Demonstration(more information)

 

  Fred Peet, PFC, Victoria, BC

4:00 - 7:00

  Registration

 

   

7:00

  No-host social
 
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Tuesday - August 19, 2003

 

7:00 - 8:30

  Rust Committee Breakfast

 

  Brian Geils, Chair

7:00 - 8:30

  Registration

 

   

8:30

  Chairperson's Welcome

 

  Everett Hansen

8:45

  Local information presentation

 

  Ellen Goheen

9:00 - 9:30

  "Nature Notes for the State of Jefferson"

 

  Dr. Frank Lang, Emeritus Professor of Biology, Southern Oregon University

9:30 - 10:00

  Coffee Break

 

   

10:00-11:30

  Regional Reports

 

  Everett Hansen

11:30 - 1:00

  Hazard Tree Committee Lunch

 

  John Pronos, chair

1:00 - 3:00

  PANEL 1: A NEW TRADITION: What is timely in Forest Pathology, 2003

 

  Bart van der Kamp, chair

 

  Topics

 

  A new home for Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii in a Canadian temperate climate zone

 

  Karen Bartlett, School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, UBC

 

  Swiss Needle Cast updated

 

  Alan Kanaskie, Oregon Dept. of Forestry, Salem OR

 

  The Dothistroma pini epidemic in North West British Columbia: why there, why now?

 

  Alex Woods, Ministry of Forests, Smithers, B.C.

 

  The latest on SOD

 

  David Rizzo, Dept Plant Biology, UC Davis

3:00 - 3:30

  Coffee Break

 

   

3:30 - 5:00

  Special papers

 

  James Worrall, chair

 

  Topics

 

  Early thinning in mixed-species plantations of Douglas-fir, hemlock, true fir, and ponderosa pine affected by Armillaria root disease in central Oregon and Washington: 20-30-year results.

 

  Greg Filip

 

  Shore Pine Dwarf Mistletoe, a race or sub species of western hemlock dwarf mistletoe?

 

  Bob Mathiasen

 

  Long-term monitoring of tree damage caused by porcupine feeding in the Khutzeymateen Inlet

 

  Stefan Zeglen

 

  Fire and Dwarf Mistletoe

 

  Bob Tinnin

7:00

  Ice cream social and poster session

 

  Kelly Sullivan, Chair
 
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Wednesday - August 20, 2003

 

7:00 - 8:30

  Dwarf Mistletoe Committee Breakfast

 

  Katy Marshall, Chair

8:30 - 5:30

  FIELD TRIP

 

  Crater Lake (Root disease, blister rust, white bark pine, sugar pine)

6:30 - wee hours

  40 minute drive to Ellen and Don's house

 

  Southern Oregon wine tasting championships
 
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Thursday - August 21, 2003

 

8:00 - 10:00

  PANEL 2: Quarantines and problematic genetic exchange.

 

  Susan Frankel, chair

 

  Topics

 

  History/overview of the use of quarantines to limit the spread of forest pathogens

 

  Borys Tkacz, National Program Manager, Forest Health Monitoring, Arlington, Virginia

 

  The regulatory system for forest pathogens in North America, the European Union, and other parts of the world: a pop quiz.

 

   

 

  Phytophthora ramorum quarantine: challenges of regulating a new organism with a wide host range

 

  David Rizzo, Associate Professor, UC Davis

 

  Preventing exotic pathogen threats to forests - a sideways scientific look,

 

  Clive Brasier, Pathology Branch, Forest Research, Farnham, Surrey, UK

 

  Current challenges in forest pathogen protection

 

  Faith T. Campbell, Director, Invasive Species Program, American Lands Alliance, Washington, DC

10:30-12:00

  Business meeting

 

  Everett Hansen, chair

12:00 - ?

  Lunch on the bus

 

  FIELD TRIP (Siskiyou: Port Orford cedar, Doreena resistance)
Banquet (Bart van der Kamp must recite a limerick)
 
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Friday - August 22, 2003

 

7:00 - 8:30

  Root Disease Committee Breakfast

 

  Ellen Goheen, chair

8:30 - 10:20

  PANEL 3 Mechanisms and inheritance of disease resistance in forest trees

 

  Det Vogler, chair

 

  Topics

 

  White Pine Blister Rust on pine and/or Ribes

 

  Paul Zambino

 

  Port Orford cedar root rot

 

  Rich Sniezko

 

  Pitch canker

 

  Tom Gordon

 

  Dwarf mistletoe in pine

 

  Bob Scharpf

10:40-11:10

  Climate change and vegetation response modelling

 

  Ron Neilson, PNW Station

11:10-12:00

  2004 Workshop discussion and close
 
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Conference Information.
 
Important Local Arrangements Information
 
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Special Workshops.
 

WIFDWC Nursery Pathology Workshop

Root Disease Simulator Workshop

 
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Committee Meeting Announcements.
 

Call for agenda items and discussion topics for the Annual WIFDWC Root Disease Committee Meeting

WIFDWC 2003 Dwarf Mistletoe Committee Meeting

     
 
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2002 Committee Meeting Minutes.
 

WIFDWC 2002 Powell River, BC BUSINESS MEETING MINUTES

Root Disease Committee Report

WIFDWC 2002 Dwarf Mistletoe Committee Meeting

     
 
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Special papers or posters.
 

Long-term monitoring of tree damage
caused by porcupine feeding in the Khutzeymateen Inlet

    Stefan Zeglen
 
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Call for Outstanding Achievement Award
 

2003 Call for WIFDWC Outstanding Achievement Award (OAA)

 
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