6th Western Hazard Tree
Workshop: June 15-17, 2010
First Announcement
To: All parties interested in hazard
tree management
From: Pete Angwin, Plant Pathologist,
USDA Forest Service, Redding, CA (pangwin@fs.fed.us,
or by phone at 530-226-2436)
Plan now for the next Western Hazard
Tree Workshop, to be held in Medford, Oregon, during the week of June 14,
2010! The meeting site will be at the USDA Forest Service's J. Herbert
Stone Nursery in Central Point. Lodging is available in a variety of hotels
in Medford. As with the previous five workshops, the intended audience
includes pest specialists, arboriculturists and other professionals who
have responsibilities for providing training and guidance in hazard tree
management, particularly in forested settings.
There will be one and a half days of
indoor discussions and presentations and one and a half days in the field.
Indoor topics include: Roadside Danger Tree Policies and Assessment; Biology
and Taxonomy of Wood Decay Fungi; Oak Defects, Decays and Failures; Options
For Not Removing Hazard Trees; Effects of Pruning on Douglas-fir;
Illusions and Consequences in Tree-Risk Assessment- When Law and Arboriculture
Collide; Powerlines, Wildfires and Tree Failures: School Fire Case Study;
and Decay From Phellinus pini: Case Studies and Lessons Learned.
An evening poster session/social/decay fungus identification workshop/hazard
tree photo contest will also be featured.
The field portion of the workshop will
include visits to sites in the southern Oregon Cascades on the Rogue River-Siskiyou
and Winema National Forests, with one stop in the Rogue Valley at the J.
Herbert Stone Nursery. We'll see and discuss a number of hazard
tree situations and topics including: decline and failure in native oaks,
indicators used in the USDA Forest Service Region 6 roadside danger tree
program, the danger of laminated root rot in a recreation site, concerns
with decline in specimen legacy trees, and hazard potential in heavily-used
developed sites in older true fir stands.
Please check the workshop website for
details: www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/technology/htwc/index.htm
Right now, the web site contains the workshop agenda, lodging
and other general information. Registration information will be posted
on the site by March 15, and at that time you will be able to register
either by VISA or check. Registration will be $225 through April
30th, and will be $255 after that date. Guest field trip tickets will be
available at a nominal price.
Please note: Due to meeting room
and field trip capacity limitations, the workshop will be limited to the
first 88 paid registrants.
Also- If you would like to bring
a poster to present at the evening poster session/social/decay fungus identification
workshop, please contact Kristen Chadwick at klchadwick@fs.fed.us,
or by phone at (503) 668-1474.
I look forward to seeing you all in
June!!!
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Pete Angwin
Plant Pathologist
N. CA Shared Service Area
(530) 226-2436, FAX (530) 226-2485
e-mail: pangwin@fs.fed.us
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