2024 WIFDWC

Agenda

September 9 -13, 2024

Santa Fe, NM

 

 

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 9TH

Time

Item

Facilitator/Presenter

1:00

Pre-Conference Field Trip

R3 Staff

5:30

Welcome Social and Registration

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 10TH

7:00

Mistletoe Committee Breakfast

Brent Oblinger, USFS

8:45

Welcome and Conference Overview

Lori Winton, WIFDWC Chair

9:00

Keynote address

Jacob Pederson, Resource Management Bureau Chief, NMSF

10:00

Break

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10:15

Grad Student Introductions and Flash-N-Dash

Brad Lalande, moderator

11:00

Grad Student Special Papers

 

 

 

Jorda Kovash

A Bole Lotta Trouble: Changes in gene expression indicate aspen susceptibility to an emerging canker disease in Alaska

 

 

Ashley Miller

Monitoring aerial spread of white pine blister rust across the U.S. Rocky Mountains

12:00

Lunch and Foliage and Twig Committee Meeting

Adam Carson, OSU

1:30

So you've got an invasive, now what? It’s here, it’s there, it’s everywhere.

 

 

Brian Tucker and Nai’a Odachi

Remote Sensing for Rapid ‘ÅŒhi‘a Death: Innovation for Managing Hawai‘i’s Native Forest Health Crisis.

 

Ebba Peterson

Plant community composition and forest structure changes in response to Phytophthora ramorum (sudden oak death) invasion and eradication in Oregon tanoak forests

 

Anna Schoettle

Adaptive variation in Rocky Mountain Bristlecone Pine

3:00

Break

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3:30

Business Meeting

Lori Winton, WIFDWC Chair

5:00

Break for dinner (on your own)

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7:00

Poster session, silent auction, Social

Betsy Goodrich and Patrick Bennette

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH

7:00

Nursery Committee Breakfast

Anna Leon, Weyerhaeuser Company

8:30

All Day Field Trip

Greg Reynolds, USFS

5:00

Return

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6:00

Banquet and OAA presentation

Lori Winton, WIFDWC Chair
Kristen Chadwick, USFS

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 12TH

7:00

Root Disease Breakfast

Patrick Bennette, USFS

8:30

Welcome back and round up

Lori Winton, WIFDWC Chair

8:45

WO presentation with Q&A

Bruce Moltzen, USFS

9:45

Break

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10:00

Economics of Forest Pathology

 

 

Michael Murray

Biological and Cost-effectiveness of stump removal for controlling Armillaria root disease

 

Sarah Navarro and Brandon Kaetzel

Economic analysis of Sudden Oak Death and the impacts to local forestry

 

Meg Dudley

Assessing and mitigating the effects of pests and diseases on forest carbon stocks in U.S

12:00

Lunch and Rust Meeting

Jane Stewart, CSU

1:30

Special Papers

 

 

Gary Chastagner

Climate-Induced Stress and Root Diseases in PNW Christmas Tree Plantations

 

Michael Murray

Post-harvest survivorship of whitebark pine retention

2:30

Genetics Talks

 

 

Arnaldo Ferreira

Forest Service Genetic Resources Programs on Disease Resistance Screening and Breeding

 

Richard Sniezko

Lessons Learned from Successful Conifer Disease Resistance Breeding Programs in the Western United States

3:30

Break

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4:00

Climate Change Meeting

Michael Murray, Moderator

Danny Norlander

 

Sanna Sevanto

How do trees die? -The physiological mechanisms of tree mortality and their implications to forest ecosystem services.

5:30

Adjourn for day

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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 12TH

7:00

Hazard Tree Breakfast

Kristen Chadwick, USFS

8:30

Welcome back and round up

Lori Winton, WIFDWC Chair

9:00

FHAAST Conversation

Marla Downing, USFS

9:45

Break

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10:00

Santa Fe River Walking tour ~1.5 miles

 

11:45

Wrap-up and Adjourn meeting

Lori Winton, WIFDWC Chair