Meeting of  IUFRO working parties on bark beetles and reforestation pests, organized jointly with the French Forest Health Service      Facing a Crisis        Velaine-en-Haye, France 5 – 7 September 2001

On 26-28 December 1999, violent storms struck Western Europe, causing an estimated volume of 191.5 millions m³ of windthrow, 75% of which occurred in France alone. Removing the windthrow material in time to prevent insect attack was often technically impossible;  bark-beetle and other forest pests outbreaks are therefore predictible.

The IUFRO meeting in Velaine aims to provide an opportunity for a wide debate concerning the effects of huge catastrophes such as this one, and the tactics to be deployed against the rising threat of forest pests outbreaks. Other "catastrophes" (outbreaks due to other causes, such as the Trypodendron outbreak currently affecting live trees in Belgium and British Columbia, Dendroctonus outbreaks in North America, biological invasions, etc) are of course also fully within the conference's topics.

The meeting will be held in one region, Lorraine, which suffered most from the storms (29.5 millions m³ of windthrows). The conference venue will be the Centre National de Formation Forestière de l'Office National des Forêts (CNFF: National Centre for Forestry Training of the French Forest Service), in Velaine-en-Haye, near Nancy. The CNFF will provide the conference rooms, the meals and the accommodation. There will be two days of conference (5-6 September) followed by a one-day excursion in the damaged forests of the Vosges and the vineyards of Alsace (7 September). From the Nancy airport or railway station, those among the participants who plan to attend the "Dynamics of Forest Insect Populations" meeting in Aberdeen could easily leave to Scotland on 8 or 9 September.

The registration fees are fixed at US$ 120 until 31 July 2001, and at  US$ 150 later. They cover the meeting's daily expenses, the first evening's buffet mixer, the banquet, the field trip and the shuttle service from, and to airport and railway station. The (modest) remaining costs for accomodation and the remaining meals will be charged directly to the participants.

The meeting's proceeding will be published as a special issue of Integrated Pest Management Reviews.  To be accepted for publication, the manuscripts should be sent before the meeting to one of the organizers, or brought, at the latest, at the meeting. They should be written according to the journal's Instructions to Authors and should be between 10 and 20,000 words. They will be submitted to independent reviewing according to the journal's normal procedures.

An accompagnying persons programme will be set up if sufficient interest is expressed.

Conference registration

Please fill in the online form below (if you have not received an acknowledgment within the following week, please  contact JC Grégoire.), 
or e-mail, fax or mail the downloadable form to J.-C. Grégoire at the address below.For registration before 15 July, the registration fees are fixed at US$ 120, and at  US$ 150 in the case of later registration.

Registration should be paid either :

• by cheque, at the order of  "Université Libre de Bruxelles" sent to JC Grégoire

• by bank transfer to the University's account 210-0429400-33, with the statement "Velaine, FG027-2-000000", 
  making sure that this payment is free from all charges.

Accomodation and travel details

You are invited to fill in the following form (if you have not received an acknowledgment within the following week, please  contact JC Grégoire.), 

or to e-mail, fax or mail the downloadable form to J.-C. Grégoire at the address below.

The CNFF Center provides a large number of simple rooms (1 single bed + sink; toilets and showers in the corridor) at US$ 17.3/night; 

Also available are 8 rooms with 2 single beds, bathroom shared with an adjacent room at US$ 20.3/room, 6 rooms with a double bed and own bathroom at US$ 26.3/room, and 2 rooms with 2 single beds each and own bathroom at US$ 26.3/room. Accomodation will be provided on a "first ask, first serve" basis. 

Breakfast costs US$ 3.3, and ordinary lunch/dinner costs US$ 12.3.

As the CNFF Center does not accept credit cards or foreign money or cheques, rooms and meals should be paid to the organizers, in French currency, US$ or by cheque.

A shuttle service will be organized between the Center and the airport and railway station.

Organizers

IUFRO WP S7.03.03

Insects affecting reforestation

Keith Day Environmental Research University of Ulster Coleraine, N.Ireland  BT52 1SA UK Tel: +441265 32 44 47 Fax: +44 1265 32 49 11 kr.day@ulst.ac.uk

Scott Salom Department of Entomology Virginia Tech. 216 Price Hall Blacksburg, Virginia 240610319 USA Tel: +1-540-231-2794 Fax: +1-540-231-9131 salom@vt.edu

IUFRO WP S7.03.05

Integrated control of scolytid bark beetles

Ministère de l'Agriculture et de la Pêche

Département de la Santé des Forêts