Western International Forest Disease Work Conference

Fifth Joint Meeting of the Western Forest Insect and Western International Forest Disease Work Conferences,
April 26-30, 2004, San Diego, California

Last updated 3/29/04

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Program Agenda
Conference Information
Special Workshops
WIFDWC business and committee reports
Special Papers or Posters
Call for Nominations,WIFDWC Outstanding Achievement Award
Archive WIFDWC Conference Info 2002/2003

Program Agenda

Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri

Monday - April 26

Arrival of attendees in San Diego

1:00-7:00 PM

Meeting registration

TBD

1:00-5:00 PM

WIFDWC - Western disease steering committee meeting

TBD

1:00-5:00 PM

WIFDWC - Nursery Pathology meeting
Location information will be available Monday, April 26, at the hotel

TBD

2:00-5:00 PM

Otay Mesa Cargo Facility at the Port of San Diego - preWIFDWC/WFIWC field trip

We will meet with Department of Homeland Security staff and tour the facilities..focusing on discussions related to insects and pathogens.

Unfortunately the field trip is only open to US citizens. Attendees need to bring proof of citizenship for entry into the facilities.

We will meet in the lobby of the conference hotel at 2 pm on Monday April 26 and car/vanpool to Otay Mesa. We expect to back to the hotel by 5 pm.

If you would like to attend, please notify Ellen Goheen (egoheen@fs.fed.us) 541 858 6126 by April 12. We must limit the number of attendees to 40..so first come, first served! Additional information will be given to those planning to attend.

4:00-5:00 PM

WFIWC executive business meeting

TBD

5:00-6:00 PM

WFIWC full business meeting

TBD

7:00-9:00 PM

Mixer

TBD

Tuesday - April 27

7:00-8:00 AM

WIFDWC Rust Committee Breakfast
Location information will be available Monday, April 26, at the hotel

TBD

Brian Geils

8:00-9:30 AM

Plenary Session 1

TBD

Welcome to San Diego: Sue Mason, San Diego Visitors and Convention Center

Organizational Welcome and Local Arrangements: Sheri Smith, USDA FS, R5

Plenary Address: Jack Blackwell (invited), Regional Forester, USDA Forest Service, Region 5, “Implications of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 on North American Forest Management”

9:30-10:00 AM

Break

10:00-11:30 AM

WFIWC and WIFDWC Plenary Sessions

WFIWC Plenary Session

WFIWC Founder’s Award Presentation:
A Tribute to Don Dahlsten

—K. Gibson, Chair WFIWC Founder’s Award Committee; L. Caltagirone, T. Eager, and P. Shea, speakers

WFIWC Student Award Presentation (Darrell Ross, presenter):

—Awardee: Brian Aukema, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison:“Impacts of predators on population dynamics and behavior of a bark beetle prey: Implications for biological control”

WIFDWC Plenary Session

2003 Outstanding Achievement Award recipient Address

—Everett Hansen

2004 Outstanding Achievement Award Presentation

—G. Filip, D. Goheen, and S. Zeglen

Regional Status Reports

—E. Goheen

11:30-1:00 PM

Lunch

[ 11:30-1:00 PM ]

WIFDWC Hazard Tree Committee Lunch
Location information will be available Monday, April 26, at the hotel

TBD

1.) A preview by Pete Angwin of what we will see on the field trip during the 4th Western Hazard Tree Workshop in Ouray, CO from June 8-10, 2004.
2.) A discussion of the most important wood decay fungi that contribute to tree failures in the west.
J. Pronos

1:00-2:30 PM

Concurrent Workshops Session 1

Current status of entomological and pathological research in the national fire and fire surrogate (FFS) study.
(C. Fettig, USDA FS Davis, CA and W. Otrosina USDA FS Athens, GA, co-moderators)

Induced insect and disease resistance in trees: Scientific curiosity or application of the future?
(J. Bohlmann, Univ. Brit. Columbia and P. Bonello, Ohio State Univ., co-moderators)

Disease and insect issues associated with the spruce-fir type in the Rocky Mtns.
(J. Negron, USDA FS Ft. Collins, CO and F. Baker, Utah State Univ., co-moderators)

Could the disastrous tree mortality on southern California’s San Bernardino NF have been
prevented?
(D. Owen, Calif. Dept. For. and Fire Prot., Redding, CA and L. Merrill, USDA FS Riverside, CA, co-moderators)

2:30-3:00 PM+

Break

3:00-4:30 PM

Concurrent Workshops Session 2

Workshop 1: To be announced

Wood-destroying organisms in the new millennium: Where have we gone since Bend 1989?
(M. Haverty, USDA FS, Albany, CA and Jessie Micales USDA FPL, Madison, WI, co-moderators)

Evolutionary aspects of forest insect-fungus interactions
(K. Klepzig, USDA FS, Pineville, LA, moderator)

Bugs, basidiospores, and fiber: The role of silviculture in maintaining healthy forests
(D. Gilmore, Dept. of For. Resources, University of Minnesota, moderator)

Wednesday - April 28

7:30-5:00 AM

—Field Trip: Disease, insect, and fire issues around Laguna Mountain, Cleveland National Forest, San Diego Co. (Laura Merrill, John Pronos, John Wenz, co-organizers)

Two buses (Group A) will leave the Holiday Inn at 7:30 AM and two buses (Group B) will leave the Holiday Inn at 8:30 AM. Both buses will participate in the same program; Group A will have lunch at Laguna CG, whereas Group B will have lunch at Desert View Picnic Area. Each stop and the lunch break will last about one hour. Group A will return to the Holiday Inn at about 4:30 PM and Group B will return about 5:30 PM.

The trip will start at the Holiday Inn in San Diego, proceed east on I-8 to the Sunrise Highway, north along the Sunrise Highway to Highway 79, south on Highway 79 through Cuyamaca SP to I-8 and return to the Holiday Inn.

STOP	SUBJECT	SPEAKERS

#1 – Graffiti Rock	Descanso RD resource management issues Backgound- Cedar Fire- History of pest management in SoCal/ Laguna Mtn..	District Reps Laura Merrill

#2 – Burnt Rancheria Campground	Jeffrey pine beetle- Dwarf mistletoe and hazard tree management	Tim Paine, Nancy Hoogerland, John Pronos

#3 – Laguna Campground	Wood borers, Ips spp- Dwarf mistletoe research- Annosus root disease	Dave Wood Bob Scharpf John Kliejunas

#4 – Paso Picacho Campground	2003 Fires: Fire ecology, management and restoration	Rich Minnich Jim Dice- Cuyamaca Rancho SPForest/RD Rep

7:00-9:00 PM

—Poster Session, silent auction, and “sweet treats.” (Sheri Smith, Danny Cluck, and Holly Kearns, co-organizers)

Thursday - April 29

7:00-8:00 AM

WIFDWC Dwarf Mistletoe Committee Breakfast
Location information will be available Monday, April 26, at the hotel

TBD

(F.Baker)

8:30-9:30 AM

Concurrent Workshops Session 3

TBD

Renewed research efforts on the application of verbenone and other semiochemicals for reducing bark beetle-caused tree mortality
(C. Fettig, USDA FS, Davis, CA, moderator)

What’s new in graduate school? Research presentations by students in entomology and
pathology
(T. Eager, USDA FS, Gunnison, CO, moderator)

Pathological issues regarding broadleaf hosts
(W. Littke, Weyerhaeuser Res. Stn., Federal Way, WA, moderator)

Multistate Research Project W-187: An example of an integrated approach to studying the
impacts of insects and diseases in forest ecosystems.
(B. Bentz USDA FS, Logan, UT and D. Six, Univ. of Montana, Missoula co-moderators)

9:30-10:00 AM

Break

10:00-11:30 AM

Concurrent Workshops Session 4

TBD

Biological control and forest pest management:
A tribute to Donald L. Dahlsten
(R. Luck, Dept. Entomology, UC-Riverside & S. Salom, Dept. Entomology, VPI, co-moderators)

What’s current in forest pathology in western North America
(K. Britton, moderator)

11:30 -1:00 PM

Lunch

[ 11:30 -1:00 PM ]

WIFDWC Root Disease Committee Lunch
Location information will be available Monday, April 26, at the hotel

E. Goheen

1:00-2:45 PM

Plenary Session 2

Interactions of air pollution with forest health
M. Eatough-Jones and T.D. Paine, co-organizers

Introduction: Timothy Paine, Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside

Nitrogen deposition to western forests: sources and impacts, Abby Sirulnik, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences. University of California Riverside

Physiological basis of ozone injury in pine, Nancy Grulke, USDA Pacific Southwest Research Station, Riverside, CA

Tree diseases and mortality in California forests impacted by ozone, John Pronos, USDA FS FHP, R5, Sonora, CA

Air pollution and insect herbivore communities, M. Eatough-Jones, Department of Entomology. University of California Riverside

2:45-3:15 PM

Group Photos

(Ron Billings and Bill Woodruff, Photographers)

3:15-4:15 PM

WFIWC Final Business Meeting

3:15-4:15 PM

WIFDWC Special Papers

(W. Jacobi, Moderator)

4:15-5:15 PM

WIFDWC Final Business Meeting

4:30—PM

Fun Run (John Anhold, Organizer) or On Your Own

7:00-9:00 PM

Banquet and Social

Friday - April 30

7:00-8:00 AM

WIFDWC Nursery Pathology Committee Breakfast
Location information will be available Monday, April 26, at the hotel

TBD

Dianne Hildebrand

8:00-9:30 AM

Concurrent Workshops Session 5

Insect and disease issues associated with oaks in California.
(P. Shea, USDA FS Davis, CA and D. Rizzo, UC-Davis, co-moderators)

Disease, insect, and management issues associated with the pinyon-juniper type in the West
(B. Steed, USDA FS Ogden, UT and W. Jacobi, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO, co-moderators)

Development and status of the US Forest Health Monitoring Program
(B. Tkacz, USDA FS Washington, D.C., moderator)

Current research on sucking insects in North America
(A. Lawson, Fresno State, moderator)

9:30-10:00 AM

Break

10:00-11:30 AM

Plenary Session 3 (Conference Finale)

TBD

Plenary Address: Ronald P. Neilson, Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, “Climate change and vegetative responses.”

Moderated Discussion: Everett Hansen, Oregon State University, Moderator

11:30-1:00 PM

Lunch (on your own)

1:30 PM