2018 Presentations

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 SCHEDULE
8:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks: What is Forest Health Anyway? – David Shaw, OSU FNR Extension and College of Forestry
WILDLIFE

Moderator: Fran Cafferata Coe, Cafferata Consulting, LLC
8:30 Can trees be the bee’s knees? The emergence of pollinator research in managed conifer forests

Jim Rivers, Oregon State University
9:00 Interactions among intensive forest management, early-seral plant communities and deer and elk in the Oregon Coast Range

Thomas Stokely, Oregon State University
9:30 Retention and Recruitment of Coarse Woody Debris as Measurable Management Targets

AJ Kroll, Weyerhaeuser
10:00 BREAK
INSECTS

Moderator: Dave Shaw
10:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

Climate Change and Bark Beetles in Oregon:  What Might the Future Bring?

Jeff Hicke, University of Idaho
11:30 Major Insect Activity in Oregon, Especially Bark Beetles

Christine Buhl, Oregon Department of Forestry
12:00 pm LUNCH
Afternoon Moderator: Danny Norlander, Oregon Department of Forestry
1:00 Flat-headed fir borer in Southern Oregon Douglas-fir: Is the Insect Responsible for all die-off?

Bill Schaupp, US Forest Service
NON-NATIVE INVASIVE SPECIES
1:30 Invasive Forest Pests: Threats to Oregon

Wyatt Williams, Oregon Department of Forestry
2:00 Port Orford Cedar Root Disease and other Phytophthora diseases in Oregon (not SOD)

Ellen Goheen, US Forest Service
2:30 BREAK
2:45 Sudden Oak Death in Oregon

Sarah Navarro, Oregon Department of Forestry
DOUGLAS-FIR ISSUES
3:15 Forest Pathology from Nursery to Harvest

Anna Leon, Weyerhaeuser
3:45 Swiss Needle Cast 

Gabriela Ritokova, Oregon State University /Swiss Needle Cast Cooperative
4:15 Interactions of Major Insect and Disease Pests and Climate Change in Westside Douglas-fir

Michelle Agne, University of Washington
4:45 SUMMARY
4:55 ADJOURN
THURSDAY, MARCH 1 SCHEDULE
8:20 Welcome Day 2 – Dave Shaw
FIRE IN OREGON

Morning Moderator: Carrie Berger, Northwest Fire Science Consortium
8:30 A Westside Story: 2017 Year in Review

Chris Dunn and Garrett Meigs, Oregon State University
  SHOWCASE OF OSU FIRE RESEARCH
 

9:00

9:15

9:30

9:45

 EASTSIDE FIRE

Andrew Merschel: Landscape-scale Recontructions of Historical Fire Regimes in Oregon’s Dry Forests

James Johnston: Collaborative Forest Restoration on the Malheur National Forest

Kayla Johnston: Fire Exclusion: Destroying Forests for Over a Century – A Look at The Metolius Research Natural Area

Will Downing: Conifer Regeneration Following Stand Replacement Wildfire in Oregon’s Blue Mountains
10:00 BREAK
 

10:30

10:45

 

11:00

11:15

 WESTSIDE FIRE

Garrett Meigs: Fire Refugia in Late-successional Forests

Lisa Ellsworth: Fuel Conditions in Unburned, Burned, and Salvaged Forests of Oregon’s western Cascades

Chris Dunn: Fire Severity across Ownership Boundaries in the 2013 Douglas Complex

Sara Galbraith: The Effects of Fire Severity on Native Bees
11:30 Forest Industry Perspective on Fire

Phil Adams, Roseburg
12:00 pm LUNCH
FOREST MORTALITY

Afternoon Moderator: Mike Cloughesy, Oregon Forest Resources Institute
1:00 Is Tree Mortality Increasing in Oregon Forests?

Andy Gray, Pacific Northwest Research Station, US Forest Service
1:30 Observing Tree Mortality from Above and Below: Long-term Remote Sensing and Field Observations at Wind River Experimental Forest

Dave Bell, Pacific Northwest Research Station, US Forest Service
SILVICULTURE AND FOREST HEALTH
2:00 Industry Perspective on Managing for Healthy Forests in Oregon

Austin Himes, GreenWood Resources
2:30 BREAK
2:45 Assessing the Effectiveness of Fuel Treatments in Improving Tree/Stand/Forest Health

Nancy Grulke, Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center, US Forest Service
3:15 Thinning to Prevent Bark Beetle Attack: Does It Work?

Beth Willhite, Forest Health Protection, US Forest Service
3:45 Performance of Mixed Species Stands: Relative Productivity and Response to Disturbances

Douglas Maguire, Oregon State University
4:15 Moderated discussion on the Future of Forest Health

Mike Cloughesy, OFRI
4:45 ADJOURN
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