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Western North American
Defoliator Working Group
Next Meeting
December 7-8, 2010
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
The 2010 meeting will be held at the Coeur d'Alene (formerly the Coeur d'Alene Resort) -- www.cdaresort.com -- located downtown with nearby restaurants and other cultural amenities. The hotel will hold rooms for us until Saturday, November 6. Our negotiated per diem rate is $72.00/night... brace yourself for 13% tax (State, lodging, and surcharge) on top of that. Check-in time is 4:00 PM, and check-out time is 12:00 noon or prior. Make your reservations by calling the motel at 1-800-688-5253 and stating our group name: "US Forest Service".
Travel Information: The nearest airport is the Spokane International Airport, which is a 40-45 minute drive from Coeur d'Alene. The hotel provides a shuttle service to/from the airport for a fee of $45 one-way or $59 round-trip, with a 24-hour advance reservation required. The hotel charges $10 per night for parking (our thanks go to Lee Pederson who negotiated our rate down from the usual $17 per night!).
The agenda was last updated on December 2nd. Contact Lee Pederson if you have any questions, suggestions, etc. Need a reminder about what you promised to do at our last meeting? View the 2009 Action Items.
For additional information, contact Lee Pederson ( 208-765-7430) or Iral Ragenovich (503-808-2915).
The purpose of the Western North American Defoliator Working Group (WNADWG) is to provide a means to address issues associated with western defoliator ecology and management. The WNADWG meets annually or more frequently as needed. The group is composed of professional forest pest management specialists, scientists, and resource management specialists representing federal, provincial, state and local governments, universities, and private interests.
Specificially, the WNADWG provides a forum to:
Discuss current defoliatior conditions in Western North America
Identify and discuss issues and concerns related to western defoliator ecology and management
Address short- and long-term research, technology development and management needs for western forest defoliators
Communicate issues, concerns, recommendations, priorities and needs to appropriate entities
For additional information, contact Darren Blackford (dblackford@fs.fed.us, 801-476-9732)
Meeting Reports
Additional Reports
Douglas-fir Tussock Moth brochure -- produced by the USFS, Northern and Intermountain Regions in 2009 (254 k).
The History of Douglas-fir Tussock Moth in Colorado and Wyoming -- by Schaupp, Costello, and Ciesla (2008); Tech. Report R2-67, USFS Rocky Mountain Region, 35 p. (2.4 MB)
Western Spruce Budworm brochure -- produced by the USFS, Northern and Intermountain Regions in 2007 (142 k).
2005 Raw material -- a 4.9 MB zip file containing 5 photos, 1 PowerPoint presentation, and 20 MSWord documents that were distilled into the final 2005 meeting report.
Strategic-Tactical Plan, 1994 (1.3 MB)
Western Hemlock Looper: a memo, adult counts, larval counts, and total data 1992-02, prepared by Imre Otvos, Pacific Forestry Center, Canadian Forestry Service.
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