- April 15, 2008
; 1 to 5 PM
"A Decade of Forest Disease," Sudden Oak Death field trip through Marin County Agenda
- April 15, 7 PM – 9 PM
Evening Social at Broken Drum Brewery
- April 16, 8:15 AM – 5 PM
2008 COMTF Meeting at the Marin Center, San Rafael
Agenda and Presentations
- April 17, 8 AM - 12:30 PM
COMTF Nursery Committee meeting at the Marin Center
Agenda and Presentations APRIL 16 - SUDDEN OAK DEATH: A DECADE OF MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES - AGENDA AND PRESENTATIONS
7:30 a.m. Registration
8:15 a.m. Welcome – Mark Stanley, California Oak Mortality Task Force & Judy Arnold, Marin County Supervisor (audio)
Oregon Update
Moderator: Ellen Goheen, USDA Forest Service (audio included in 8:30 a.m. Current Status, below)
8:30 a.m. Current Status
Ellen Goheen, USDA Forest Service (slideshow) (audio)
8:40 a.m. Management Efforts
Alan Kanaskie, USDA Forest Service (slideshow) (audio)
9:00 a.m. Research & Applications
Everett Hansen, Oregon State University (slideshow) (audio)
9:20 a.m. Questions (audio)
P. ramorum & P. kernoviae European Union and UK Update Moderator: Elizabeth Fitchner, UC Davis (audio)
9:30 a.m. P. ramorum and P. kernoviae in European woodlands: Risk analysis for Phytophthora ramorum
Joan Webber, UK Forest Research, Surrey, UK (slideshow) (audio)
9:40 a.m. Status in nurseries and UK policy
Stephen Hunter, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) York, UK (slideshow) (audio)
10:00 a.m. Eradication efforts in Cornwall
Ian Sanders, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs DEFRA, Cornwall, UK (slideshow) (audio)
10:20 a.m. Questions (audio)
10:30 a.m. Break
California Update
Moderator: Wally Mark, Cal Poly State University (audio)
11:00 a.m. Current Status
Janice Alexander, UCCE Marin/COMTF (slideshow) (audio)
11:10 a.m. Genetic dispersal of P. ramorum
Matteo Garbelotto, UC Berkeley (slideshow) (audio)
11:45 a.m.
An update on the USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Sudden Oak Death program – Phil Cannon, USDA Forest Service (slideshow) (audio)
12:00 p.m. Management and Research update
Dave Rizzo, U.C. Davis (slideshow) (audio)
Questions: (audio)
12:30 p.m. Lunch – provided
Phytophthora ramorum Nursery Issues
Moderator: Don Givens, USDA APHIS, Fort Collins, CO (audio)
1:30 p.m. Current Status of P. ramorum in US nurseries and US regulatory highlights
Jonathan Jones, USDA APHIS (slideshow) (audio)
1:45 p.m. Current Status of P. ramorum in Canadian nurseries and Canadian regulatory highlights
Shane Sela, CFIA (slideshow) (audio)
2:00 p.m. Nursery Research: New Findings
Jennifer Parke, Oregon State University (slideshow) (audio)
2:30 p.m. Break
Management Challenges
Moderator: Gary Chastagner, Washington State University (audio)
3:00 p.m.
Contamination in rivers and streams
Steve Oak, USDA Forest Service (slideshow) (audio)
3:20 p.m. Latent & asymptomatic infections
Steven Swain, UCCE Marin (slideshow) (audio)
3:35 p.m. Tanoak resistance: can it be used to sustain tanoak populations?
Katy Hayden, UC Berkeley (slideshow) (audio)
4:00 p.m. Treatments: Questions and Answers Panel Discussion
Moderator – Jack Marshall, Ca. Department of Forestry & Fire Protection (audio)
Matteo Garbelotto, University of California Berkeley
Everett Hansen, Oregon State University, Corvallis
Alan Kanaskie, Oregon Department of Forestry, Salem, OR Tedmond Swiecki, Phytosphere Research, Vacaville, CA
(slideshow) (audio)
Questions: (audio)
4:45 p.m. Meeting summary and conclusion
Susan Frankel, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station (audio)
5:00 p.m. Meeting adjourn
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APRIL 17 - COMTF NURSERY COMMITTEE MEETING -
AGENDA AND PRESENTATIONS
8:00 am Registration
8:15 a.m. Group Introduction and West Coast
Nursery Update 2005-07 Karen Suslow, Hines Horticulture,
Inc./COMTF Nursery Committee Co-Chair
8:30 a.m. Program Vision and Eradication Efforts
United Kingdom – Stephen Hunter, DEFRA (slideshow)
United States – Jonathan Jones, USDA APHIS PPQ (slideshow)
Canada – Shane Sela, CFIA (slideshow)
9:30 a.m. Nursery Research Updates Update: Foliar Phytophthoras, irrigation water sanitation, and nursery bed fumigation
Lani Yakabe, UC Davis (slideshow)
Disease Risk of Stream Water Used for Irrigation in Areas with Sudden Oak Death/Viability and Sporulation Potential of P. ramorum Infested Leaves in Container Soil
Steve Tjosvold, UCCE Watsonville (slideshow)
10:15 am BREAK
10:25 a.m. Evaluation of molecular markers for P. ramorum detection and identification; testing for specificity using a standardized library of isolates
Frank Martin, USDA ARS (slideshow) (audio)
10:40 a.m. Grower Assisted Inspection Program
Gary McAninch, ODA (slideshow) (audio)
10:55 a.m. Introduction of Two New Real-Time Diagnostics
Validation – Kurt Zeller, USDA APHIS CPHST
Implementation – Pat Shiel, USDA APHIS CPHST (slideshow) (audio)
11:15 a.m. Alabama Training Session Ken Peek, Alameda Department of Agriculture (slideshow) (audio)
11:30 a.m. Nursery Research Needs Update (2007 SOD Symposium III Nursery Research Session)
Greg Parra, USDA APHIS CPHST (slideshow) (audio)
11:50 a.m. Nursery Research Group Discussion
Led by Greg Parra
12:20 p.m. Wrap up and Adjourn
