WIFDWC 2008 TENTATIVE AGENDA - USDA Forest Service

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10 Oct 2012 ... 2) Camp Richardson Tallac Estates. Impact of Root Rots (John Pronos). Hazard Tree Program (Pete Angwin). Elytroderma (Det Vogler).
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60 Annual Western International Forest Disease Work Conference Granlibakken, Tahoe City, California, USA October 8-12, 2012 MONDAY, OCTOBER 8 10:30-5:00pm – Pre-meeting field trip: Forest Pathology Scavenger Hunt, Barker Pass Road, departing from the Granlibakken. 5:00-10:00pm - Registration – Granlibakken Hall Welcome Social – Granlibakken Hall

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9 Spouses or guests interested in exploring the Lake Tahoe area together, please meet in the hotel lobby at 9am on Tuesday 7:30-8:30am - Registration (continued) 7:00-8:30am –Dwarf Mistletoe Committee Breakfast Meeting, Fred Baker, chair – Gran Hall 8:30-8:40am – Bay Room, Welcome, announcements from WIFDWC Chair Alex Woods – BC Ministry of Forests 8:40-8:50am – Housekeeping and Program – Local Arrangements and Program Chairs Phil Cannon and Paul Hennon 8:50-9:05am – Welcoming comments – Nancy Gibson, US Forest Service, Lake Tahoe Basin 9:05-9:35am - Keynote Address: Hugh Safford, US Forest Service, Regional Ecologist 9:35-9:50am - Outstanding Achievement Award presentation for 2012 - Award Chair, Harry Kope 9:50-10:10am – Break (20 min) 10:10-10:30am – 2011 Outstanding Achievement Award speech, Susan Frankel, USDA-Forest Service, Berkeley, CA 10:30-10:50am – 2011 Outstanding Achievement Award speech, Ellen Goheen, USDA-Forest Service, Medford, OR 10:50-12:00 – Graduate Student Introductions and Brief Project Summaries – Bob Edmonds,

University of Washington. Students: 12:00-1:30pm – Foliar & Twig Disease Committee Lunch Meeting, Harry Kope, chair – Gran Hall 1:30-3:20 – Panel 1. Assisted migration and forest diseases: Boon or liability? Moderator: Susan Frankel, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research An overview of some potentials, issues, and realities of assisted migration for climate change adaptation in forests, Louis Iverson, USDA FS, Northern Research Station, Delaware, OH US Forest Service policy, strategy and practices for assisted migration: The state of ambiguity and uncertainty. Randy Johnson, National Program Leader, Genetics and Global Change Research, USDA Forest Service, WO The role assisted migration can play in mitigating pathogen threats on forest ecosystems due to climate change. Laura Gray, Centre for Forest Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada and BC Ministry of Forests, Tree Improvement Branch, Victoria, BC Panel Discussion with speakers: Will assisted migration mitigate forest disease damage? Moderator: David Shaw, College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 3:20-3:45pm Break (20 min) 3:45-5:00pm –Contributed papers (1 hour 15 min: 25 min each): Moderator TBA Climate Change driven mortality of Douglas-Fir near its southern and lowest elevation limits of its range. Martin MacKenzie, USDA Forest Service, R05 FHP Simultaneous modeling of climate envelopes for a host and pathogen: western hemlock and hemlock dwarf mistletoe in Alaska. Tara Barrett et al. PNW research, Wenatchee Blister rust updates on resistance and field trials: On the road to durable resistance? (A Tree Breeder’s perspective). Richard Sniezko, USDA Forest Service, Dorena, OR 5:00pm Adjourn 5:15-6:30pm – Climate Change Committee Happy Hour Meeting – Susan Frankel and Dave Shaw, chairs – Gran Hall 7:00-9:00pm - Ice Cream Social/Poster Session/Silent Auction – Lake Room – Posters led by Robin Mulvey, Silent auction led by Blakey Lockman

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10 8:15am-5:30pm – All Day Field Trip. Meet at lobby Granlibakken. 1) Blackwood Canyon Stand density management – Dave Fournier, US Forest Service, LTBMU

Heterobasidion management, Martin Kackenzie, FHP 2) Camp Richardson Tallac Estates Impact of Root Rots (John Pronos) Hazard Tree Program (Pete Angwin) Elytroderma (Det Vogler) 3) Angora Fire Ponderosa pine management test, Jessica Wright 4) Nevada Beach Dwarf mistletoe genetics and management, Det Vogler Nevada’s mistletoe management program, Gail Durham 4) Tahoe Rim Trail, Mt Rose Whitebark pine blister rust, Patricia Maloney 7:00-9:00pm – Rust Committee meeting, Helen Maffei, chair – Gran Hall

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11 7:00-8:30am – Nursery Pathology Committee Breakfast Meeting, Willis Littke, chair – Gran Hall 8:30-10:00am - Panel discussion (1.5 hours): Tropic forest tree diseases, Phil Cannon Koa wilt in Hawaii – Nick Dudley, Hawaii Ag. Research Center Root rots on Casuarina in Guam -- Robert Schlub, University of Guam Puccinia psidii rust on the Myrtaceae -- Phil Cannon, US Forest Service, FHP 10:00-10:30am Break 10:30am-Noon –Contributed papers (1 hour 30 min: 30 min each): Moderator TBA Application of molecular genetic tools for forest pathology. Amy L. Ross-Davis, John W. Hanna, Mee-Sook Kim, and Ned B. Klopfenstein. Rocky Mountain Research Station Looking for Heterobasidion irregulare in the Upper Midwest. Jessie Glaeser, M. Banik, D. Lindner, J. Juzwik Genetic structure of introduced and native pathogens, Matteo Garbelleto, UC Berkeley 12:00-1:30pm – Hazard Tree Committee Lunch Meeting – Pete Angwin, chair - Gran Hall

1:30-2:30pm – Contributed papers (1 hour: 30 min each. Or, add 1, 20 min each): Moderator TBA Sudden oak death management and containment strategies in the North Coast of California, Yana Valachovic and Maia Beh, UC Cooperative Extension Humboldt/Del Norte A new dimension to pitch canker epidemiology: Biology of Fusarium circinatum as a grass colonist in native and managed pine systems. Cassandra. Swett, Margaret Huang, Amir Begovic, and Thomas R. Gordon. Department of Plant Pathology, UC Davis 2:30pm-5:00pm – Local Walking Field Trip or Hash House Harriers version of the same. Landscape Restoration and Sugar Pine WPBR, Patricia Maloney Cytospora and dwarf mistletoe on fir (Dave Shaw) 6:00-9:00pm – Banquet – Granlibakken Gran Hall Moderated by Bill Woodruff 1) Tributes Fields Cobb and Dick Parmeter Bob Gilbertson Tom Laurent 2) Branching architecture of the Family tree (by Ellen Goheen). 3) History of WIFDWC, origins and founding fathers (speakers TBA) Adjourn to Olympic Ski Lodge for refreshments and more WIFDWC tall tales.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 12 7:00-8:30am – Root Disease Committee Breakfast Meeting – Blakey Lockman, Chair- Gran Hall 8:30-10:30am – Business meeting – Alex Woods 10:30am – Adjourn 10:30am-5pm Post-meeting trip Climate change test of Canadian tree species in genetic common garden plantings at Forest Hill near Sacramento area. Led by Phil Cannon, US Forest Service, FHP

Details for Field Trips for WIFDWC VX, Oct. 8-12, 2012 Monday, October 8th Scavenger Hunt to Barker Pass (10:30AM-5:00PM) Scavenger Hunt Participants will gather at the Granlibakken Lodge (in the parking lot outside registration) at 10:30 where they will form teams, get some appropriate forest disease information and depart as a caravan at 11:00AM. They will then travel 6 miles to the south on Highway 89 and then turn right (west) on the Blackwood Canyon Road. The first stop will be 20 minutes up this road, just below Barker Pass. Here Patricia Maloney will show White Pine Blister Rust and a few other diseases. Teams will subsequently travel to Barker Pass where they will be given the rules of the scavenger hunt and turned loose to scavenge their booty in this especially sick section of forest. Especially ambitious teams may want to summit Mount Ellis (a three hour trek round trip if one stays in boogie mode the whole way). Judging of the scavenged signs and symptoms for each team will be performed back at the Granlibakken that evening by local pathologists. A desirable prize will be awarded to the winning team during the Thursday evening Festivities.

Wed. Oct. 10th “Around the Lake Forest Pathology Tour” Oct. 10th, 2012. 8:15 Leave Granlibakken 8:45 Arrive at Blackwood Canyon Overview of Silviculture in the Tahoe Basin (Dave Fournier) View Thinned and Unthinned Forest; discuss sporax treatments (Martin MacKenzie) View Plug and Pond efforts to “Keep Tahoe Blue” (Craig Oerli) 9:30-10:15 Travel towards Camp Richardson “Tallac Historic Area” (snack and formal pit stop) View P. schweinitzii aftermath and Heterobasidion root rot (John Pronos) Discuss Hazard Trees in Valhalla (Pete Angwin) View Elytroderma, discuss resistance (Det Vogler) 10:50-11:15 Travel to Angora Fire Site off Wintoon Dr. (Note: if we cannot leave Camp Richardson before 11:10, we will not make the stop at the Angora Site, but rather leave directly for Nevada Beach).

View results of fire safe and firefighting efforts in a WUI (LTBMU Staff; Nancy Gibson to appoint) View a ponderosa and Jeffrey pine provenance progeny test not adequate for making assisted migration decisions (Jessica Wright) View root rot that has developed in trees that “survived” the Angora Fire (Phil Cannon) 11:45-12:20 Travel to Nevada Beach (Lunch and Formal Pit stop) View dwarf mistletoe control efforts and dwarf mistletoe genetic resistance test (Det Vogler) Discuss Nevada’s Dwarf Mistletoe Management Program (Gail Durham) View Peridermium rust (Det Vogler) 13:30-14:30 Travel to Rim Trail near Mount Rose 14:30 Arrive at Rim Trail Trailhead. Hike 30 minutes to site (Some mountain bikes may be available). View WPBR on Whitebark Pine (Patricia Maloney) and spectacular lake views. Comstock Logging 16:30-17:15 Travel to the Granlibakken (Dinner) Thursday, October 11th. Mini Field trip and Hash House Harriers race 2:30-5:00 PM This short field day was designed to complete the showing of serious pathogens in the Tahoe area and also to provide a chance for a little physical exercise for those that want it. At 2:30 PM. The WIFDWC crowd will divide in three groups. Groups 1 and 2 will be doing a walking tour (about one mile total distance). Group 3 will be doing the internationally acclaimed Hash House Harriers race. Patricia Maloney will take Group 1 to see White pine blister rust in Sugar Pine and Heterobasidion. Dave Shaw (or Leif Mortenson or Martin MacKenzie) will take Group 2 to see Cytospora and Dwarf mistletoe on fir. Group 3 will go with Phil Cannon and commence to run their Hash. After 45 minutes have elapsed, groups 1 and 2 will swap stations. Members of Group 3 will also be seeing everything that Groups 1 and 2 see, but they might be thinking about something else (like why isn’t there any air up here??….or where is the water??). Friday, Oct 12th. Trip to the Assisted Migration Experiment (at Foresthill) (10:30 AM-4:00PM) Immediately after the business meeting is completed on Friday (about 10:30 AM), individuals wishing to see Canada’s assisted migration experiment will meet in front of the registration office and then caravan to the Foresthill (USDA Forest Service) experimental site. Tom Blush, Regional Forest Geneticist for California, will present the layout of this experiment. Several other interesting genetics and silvicultural experiments are available in this area. This trip will end at 4:00 PM near Sacramento.