Hello Forest Pathologists, Thought you might be interested to know about this one-day workshop to be held near Portland, OR: "Operational Management of Swiss Needle Cast in Douglas-fir". This year was our highest acreage detected since we began aerial surveys in 1996; 393,923 acres of visible symptoms in Douglas-fir on the coast of Oregon. http://www.cof.orst.edu/coops/sncc/2010Results.htm Dave Shaw David Shaw Extension Forest Health Specialist and Director, Swiss Needle Cast Cooperative Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management (Assistant Professor) College of Forestry, Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon 97331 Phone: 541.737.2845 Fax: 541.737.4316 dave.shaw(a)oregonstate.edu Swiss Needle Cast Cooperative: http://www.cof.orst.edu/coops/sncc/