2018 Presentations - Forest Health in Oregon: State of the State

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