Monday -March 18, 2002
Arrival and Registration
Tuesday -March 19, 2002
Welcome - Kenneth Gooch, Pest Council Chair & Pierre
Desrochers, Local Host
State and Provincial Forest Insect and Disease Highlights
Chair : Pierre DesRochers, CFS-LFC
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Eradication Results -
Jennifer Bofinger, NH Forests and Lands
HWA Eradication in Maine -Don
Ouellette, Maine Forest Service
Gerald N. Lanier Graduate Student Forum
Chair: Douglas Allen, SUNY, ESF- Moderator
- Megan Fries, University of Maine: Marie-Eve
Godin, Univ. Québec à Montréal:
- Simon Taillefer, Univ. Québec à Montréal:
- Ryan Morgan, Univ. of Toronto: The impact
of the PSB on pine plantations in Ontario.
- Sharon Martinson, Dartmouth College,
Maine: The southern pine beetle.
- Chantal Morin, Univ. Laval, Québec:
- Nicolas Feau, Univ. Laval, Québec:
- Richard Berthiaume, Univ.Laval,
Québec: The hemlock looper, a two-speed system?
Executive Committee Meeting
Wednesday -March 20, 2002
Chair: Ken Gooch, Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Service
Business Meeting
Effect of pine plantation compostition
and health on the number of pine shoot beetles captured (Tomicus
piniperda) - P. DesRochers (CFS-LFC)
Impact du Grand Hylesine des Pins (Tomicus
piniperda) - Pierre Therrien
(MRNQ)
Effects of log water spraying on emergence
of the pine shoot beetle (Tomicus piniperda) - R.
Lavallee and others (CFS - LFC and CFIA)
The Canadian Wood Crating Material Certification
Program - Le programme canadien de certification des materiaux
d’emballage en bois - Jean-Guy Champagne, ACIA-CFIA and Gordon Henry,
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (ACIA-CFIA)
Update of Asian Longhorned Beetle Research
- Alan Sawyer,USDA, APHIS, OTIS Methods
Lab
European Larch Canker: the first steps
of an Intruder - Jean-Yves
Blanchette (Univ. Moncton, School of Forestry)
Action Plan for the White Pine Weevil
- Robert Lavallée (CFS -LFC)
Exotic Forest Pests in Ontario - G.
Howse and A. Hopkin (CFS -GLFC)
Balsam Fir Sawfly Nucleopolyhedrosis
Virus - Chris Lucarotti, CFS-AFC
An Overview of BSLB Research and Preliminary
Results from Trapping, Host Range and Bait Log Experiments -
Wayne MacKay
Ophiostoma species and BSLB; Brown
Spruce Longhorned Beetle Diagnostics Research - Ken
Harrison
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