Conference Program
Program
last updated: August 23, 2006
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Sunday -- August 27, 2006
Optional Afternoon Field trip to Mt Ashland Whitebark Pine -- Frank Lang
Meet in the Parking Lot of the Mt Ashland Ski Area at 1:00 pm. Please wear sturdy hiking shoes and carry sunscreen and drinking water.
Registration -- 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm -- Art Building Foyer, Southern Oregon University (SOU)
Evening Presentation - Open to General Public -- 7:00 pm -- Meese Auditorium, Art Building, SOU
Whitebark Pine Ecosystems: Ecological Importance and Future Outlook -- Diana Tomback, University of Colorado
Monday -- August 28, 2006
7:00-10:00 am -- Registration -- Stevenson Union Foyer, SOU
8:00 am -- Conference Begins -- Rogue River Room, Stevenson Union, SOU
8:00 am -- Welcome:
Frank Lang, Emeritus Professor, Southern Oregon University, and
Doug Daoust, USDA Forest Service
8:30 am -- Keynote Addresses -- Moderator: Ron Mastrogiuseppe, Crater Lake Institute
Overview of Whitebark Pine Ecosystems: Ecological Importance and Future Outlook -- Diana Tomback, University of Colorado
Ecology of Whitebark Pine in the Pacific Northwest -- Gregg Ettl, University of Washington
10:00-10:30 am -- Break
10:30 am -- Status of Whitebark Pine and Other High Elevation Five-needle Pines with Emphasis on Pacific Coast Ecosystems: What are the Issues and Concerns? -- Moderator: Don Goheen, USDA Forest Service
10:35-10:55 am -- Whitebark pine in peril: a rangewide assessment -- John Schwandt, USDA Forest Service
11:15-11:35 am -- The status and distribution of whitebark pine in Oregon and Washington -- Robin Shoal, USDA Forest Service
11:35-11:55 am -- Status of whitebark pine and other high elevation five-needle pines with emphasis on Pacific Coast ecosystems: perspective from California -- John Kliejunas, Retired USDA Forest Service, and Joan Dunlap, USDA Forest Service
10:55-11:15 am -- Current conditions and the state of our efforts regarding whitebark pine in British Columbia -- Stefan Zeglen, B.C. Minstry of Forests
noon-1:00 pm -- Lunch Break (on your own)
1:00 pm -- Critical Impacts in High Elevation Five-needle Pine Ecosystems -- Moderator: Diane White, USDA Forest Service
1:00-1:30 pm -- White pine blister rust: why here? why now? what next? -- Everett Hansen, Oregon State University
1:20-2:00 pm -- The mountain pine beetle and whitebark pine waltz: has the music changed? -- Barbara Bentz, USDA Forest Service
2:00-2:30 pm -- Fire and Pacific Coast whitebark pine -- Michael Murray, USDI National Park Service
2:30-3:00 pm -- Break -- Photo Viewing and Voting
3:00-3:30 pm -- The coevolution of whitebark pine and Clark's nutcracker -- Ron Lanner, Retired, USDA Forest Service
3:30-4:00 pm -- Climate variability in whitebark pine ecosystems: a paleoperspective -- Kurt F. Kipfmueller, University of Minnesota
4:00-4:45 pm -- Where Do We Go From Here? -- Carol Aubry, USDA Forest Service, and Regina Rochefort, USDI National Park Service
4:45-5:00 pm -- Questions / Announcements
5:00-5:30 pm -- Photo Viewing and Voting
5:30-7:30 pm -- Italian Buffet Dinner (included in registration) -- Stevenson Union
7:30 pm -- Evening Program -- Rogue River Room, Stevenson Union
Perspectives on Restoration in Wilderness -- Doug Scott, Policy Director, Campaign For America's Wilderness
Tuesday -- August 29, 2006
Field Trip to Crater Lake National Park -- 8:00 am to 6:00 pm -- (Lunch provided)
Buses will leave promptly at 8 am from the parking lot on Mountain Avenue across from the Music Building.
Wednesday -- August 30, 2006
8:30-9:00 am -- Poster Setup, Foyer of Science Building, SOU
CURRENT SITUATION (ECOLOGY) AND FUTURE OPTIONS
9:00-9:30 am -- Preparing the landscape for invasion - early intervention approaches for threatened high elevation white pine ecosystems -- Schoettle Anna W.; Sniezko, Richard A.; Burns, Kelly S.; Freeman, Floyd
9:30-9:55 am -- Structure and dynamics of whitebark pine forests in the Warner Mountains, northeastern California -- Figura, Pete; Riegel, Gregg; Sawyer, Jr., John O.; Thornburgh, Dale A.
9:55-10:20 am -- Structural adaptation in bird-dispersed whitebark pine and Siberian stone pine seeds -- Tillman-Sutela, Eila; Kauppi, Anneli; Tomback, Diana F.
10:20-10:35 am -- Break
10:35--11:35 am -- Poster Session, Foyer of Science Building, SOU
The use of verbenone to protect whitebark pine from mountain pine beetle attack -- Kegley, Sandra J.; Gibson, Kenneth E.
Radio tagging Clark's nutcrackers: preliminary data from a study of habitat use in Washington state -- Lorenz, Teresa J.
An assessment of genetic variation of whitebark pine populations from Oregon and Washington in relation to height increment, phenology, and form -- Hamlin, Jim; Doede, Dave; Kegley, Angelia; Sniezko, Richard
Condition and health of whitebark pine in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon -- Erickson, Vicky; Rockwell, Victoria; Schmitt, Craig; Prudhomme, Karen; Justice, Don; Powell, Dave; Chandler, Jim; Ward, Kimiora
Whitebark pine restoration treatments in the Vinegar Hill Scenic Area in northeastern Oregon -- Novotny, Vince; Erickson, Vicky; Schmitt, Craig; Prudhomme, Karen; Powell, Dave
Status of whitebark pine on National Forest lands in Washington and Oregon -- Doede, David; Shoal, Robin; Aubry, Carol
Impacts of climate change on mountain pine beetle habitat suitability and outbreak risk in whitebark pine forests of British Columbia -- Campbell, Elizabeth; Carroll, Allan
Influence of inoculum source and density on white pine blister rust infection and mortality of whitebark pine: 2007 update on 2001 inoculation of Shoshone National Forest seedlings -- Kegley, Angelia; Sniezko, Richard; Danchok. Robert
North American non-Ribes alternate hosts of Cronartium ribicola: ongoing studies to determine their significance and impact to whitebark pine -- Richardson, B.A.; Zambino, P.J.; McDonald, G.I.; Klopfenstein, N.B.; Kim, M.-S.
11:35 am -- Resume Paper Presentations
11:35-noon -- Post-fire regeneration of whitebark pine in the Canadian Rockies and North Cascades -- Zeglan, Stefan for Moody, Randy
noon-12:25 pm -- Burn severity and whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) regeneration in the North Cascades -- McDowell, Stephanie Anne
12:30-1:30 pm -- Lunch Break (on your own)
WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST, GENETIC VARIATION and RUST RESISTANCE
1:35-2:05 pm -- The role of disease resistance in the recovery of whitebark pine -- Vogler, D.R.
2:05-2:30 pm -- Variation in resistance to white pine blister rust among whitebark pine families from Oregon and Washington - early results and implications for conservation -- Sniezko, Richard A.; Kegley A.; Danchok, R.; Long S.
2:30-2:55 pm -- Genetic diversity and geographic differentiation in quantitative traits, and seed transfer guidelines for whitebark pine -- Bower, Andrew D.; Aitken, Sally N.
2:55-3:15 pm -- Break
3:15-3:40 pm -- Mapping genes controlling slow-rust resistance and major gene resistance in sugar pine -- Jermstad, Kathie D.; Neale, David B.
SEED STORAGE, NURSERY CULTURE
3:40-4:05 pm -- Seedling nursery culture of whitebark pine: headaches, successes, and growing pains -- Riley, Lee E.; Coumas, Carmen M.
4:05-4:30 pm -- Dynamics of whitebark pine seed storage and germination -- Berdeen John C.; Riley Lee E.; Sniezko Richard A.
Thursday -- August 31, 2006
CLIMATE CHANGE, WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST IMPACTS AND RESTORATION
8:30-8:55 am -- Modeling contemporary climate profiles and predicting their response to global warming for whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) -- Marcus V. Warwell, Gerald E. Rehfeldt, and Nicholas L. Crookston
8:55-9:20 am -- White pine blister rust and whitebark pine ecosystems in California Maloney, Patricia; Dunlap, Joan
9:20-9:45 am -- First-year results of a whitebark pine seed planting trial near Baker City, OR -- Schwandt, John Walter; Tomback, Diana; Keane, Robert; McCaughey, Ward; Kearns, Holly
9:45-10:10 am -- A comparison of cone collecting techniques for whitebark pine -- Murray, Michael
10:10-10:30 am -- Break
SURVEY METHODS AND DATABASES, and BEETLE PROTECTION
10:30-10:55 am -- Verbenone suppression of mountain pine beetle in lodgepole pine at the Sawtooth National Recreation Area in central Idaho -- Progar, R.A.
10:55-11:20 am -- Methods for surveying and monitoring whitebark pine for blister rust infection and damage -- Tomback, Diana F.; Keane, Robert E.; McCaughey, Ward W.; Smith, Cyndi M.
11:20-11:25 am -- WLIS: The Whitebark-Limber Pine Information System and what it can do for you -- Lockman, I. Blakey; DeNitto, Gregg A.; Courter, Anthony W.; Koski, Ronda D.
11:45-noon -- Crater Lake Institute and/or Sugar Pine Foundation
noon-12:30 pm -- Questions, Discussion and Closing Remarks
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