Dear Fellow Colleagues,
Back in 1997, with the support of the USFS, ISA, and Virginia Tech,
my group initiated a project to:
1. Identify previously published sampling procedures used for forest
pest management decision-making and assessments (not
research-specific procedures); and
2. Summarize and present the procedures in an organized and
easy-to-follow format.
This was initially accomplished with the publication of "Sampling
Methods for Forest and Shade Tree Insects of North America"
(FHTET-2001-01) and the creation of a companion website (an online
version of the pub). A total of 131 summaries were included here.
At this time I am pleased to announce the publication of "Sampling
Methods for Forest and Shade Tree Insects of North America", Volume 2
(FHTET-2010-03). This effort now includes an additional 121
summaries. Also, the original website has been updated and expanded
to include the summaries from both publications. It can be accessed
at http://www.sampforestpest.ento.vt.edu/. From the website,
individual summaries can be searched for by feeding guild, then by
insect common name, and then by author name. Each summary stands
alone and can be printed out separately.
This is a free publication! The U.S. Forest Service has generously
printed a relatively large number of paper copies of both Volumes.
If you are interested in receiving Vols. 1, 2 or both, please let me
know and I will send them to you. Copies are also available from the
USFS through Dick Reardon (rreardon(a)fs.fed.us), at Morgantown, WV.
We hope you find these summaries useful. Please pass this message on
to those who may benefit from this information but are not be members
of the FORENT listserve. Since I also added the e-mail list from the
SFIWC listing, some of you may receive this message more than once,
including myself.
Regards,
Scott Salom
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Scott M. Salom, Ph.D.
Professor of Forest Entomology
216 Price Hall
Dept. of Entomology phone: 540-231-2794
Virginia Tech fax: 540-231-9131
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0319
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Professional Homepage:
http://web.ento.vt.edu/ento/personalPage.jsp?uuid=814879
Dept. Homepage: http://web.ento.vt.edu/ento
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Dear members of the IUFRO DIVISION 7 (FOREST HEALTH) community
Many (we wish more) of you are with us at the IUFRO World Conference in
Seoul. From our perspective, this is a historic event in bringing together
more scientists working in the field of TREE HEALTH than ever before at a
IUFRO World Congress. The programme is jam packed with technical sessions
dealing with Air Pollution, Climate Change, Insect Pests and Diseases. I
hope that we can do the same OR BETTER at our next World Congress in FOUR
YEARS time.
For those of you who are attending the conference - please try to attend our
business meeting at 18h30 on Friday evening in room E6. Open to everyone
who works in the field of tree health. Sometimes people become confused as
to whether they are part of the IUFRO community. This is easy - if you
attend IUFRO Working Party meetings - you are one of the club. And if you
are at the World Congress and work in the field of Tree Health (Divsion 7),
we would love to have you attend the business meeting and have your views on
building better networks.
Some of you will know that I will step down as Co-ordinator of Division 7 as
of the end of this meeting. Thus, at the Business Meeting, I will be
handing over to Sandy Liebhold and he will introduce the new leaders
(Co-ordinators) of the three Research Groups (7.1-Air Pollution and Climate
Change, 7.2- Pathology and 7.3 - Entomology). These are Andrzej
Bytnerowicz, Jolanda Roux and Ecki Brokerhoff.. in that order. They become
the Deputy Co-ordinators of the Division and also members of the Enlarged
IUFRO Board. I will also have the opportunity to THANK Naoto Kamata,
Jean-Claude Gregoire and Kevin Percy for acting as Division Deputies. Also
to thank Elena Paoletti, Gaston La Flamme and Sandy Liebhold for being a
fantastic source of support during the last five years and for doing a
superb job to build the Division to one of the strongest and most dynamic in
IUFRO.
Particularly for those of you that are not able to attend the meeting, I
have compiled a short report capturing highlights of the past five years and
giving some perspectives as to what lies ahead. I am attaching the report
to this note (it is also at
<http://www.iufro.org/download/file/5821/2798/iufro7__BUSINESS_MEETING_2010.
doc/>
http://www.iufro.org/download/file/5821/2798/iufro7__BUSINESS_MEETING_2010.d
oc/
With very best wishes
Mike Wingfield
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Michael J. Wingfield (Ph.D., FRSAF, ASSAf)
Mondi Professor of Forest Protection
Director, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI);
Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP) &
DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology (CTHB)
University of Pretoria, PRETORIA 0002, South Africa
Phone (office): +27 12 420 3938
Fax (office): +27 12 420 3960
E-mail: <mailto:mike.wingfield@fabi.up.ac.za> mike.wingfield(a)fabi.up.ac.za
WEBSITE: http://www.fabinet.up.ac.za/people/mjwingfield
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Hello Forest Entomology friends,
Many of us are already gathered here at the IUFRO World Congress in
Seoul and others are preparing for upcoming meetings in Eberswalde and
Freiburg in September. But this seems like an appropriate moment to
announce that the 2010 George Varley Award for Excellence in Forest
Insect Research will be given to Dr. Michael McManus of the USA at the
upcoming working party meeting in Eberswalde. We are recognizing
McManus for his many accomplishments over his career, including his
research on forest insect biology but also his work in facilitating
international cooperation, including his work as an IUFRO leader.
Previous recipients of this award were Werner Baltensweiler (2007) and
William Mattson (2009). If you will not have the opportunity to
congratulate Mike at the Eberswalde meeting, you might want to drop
him a note at mmcmanus0121(a)comcast.net .
-Sandy
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Andrew Liebhold http://sandyliebhold.com
Northern Research Station 304-285-1512
USDA Forest Service 304-285-1505 FAX
180 Canfield St. 724-317-8668 mobile
Morgantown, WV 26505 USA
To all concerned:
Having recently retired after 33 years as a professor of forest
protection, I wonder how to put a lifetime of relevant library (forest
entomology, forest pathology, as well as general entomology and
mycology) to good use. Institutions still under development might be
particularly interested in building an appropriate collection of
literature for use by researchers, students or the general public. I
am willing to let this collection go under favorable conditions.
Anyone interested please get in touch.
Hans G. Schabel, PhD
Professor Emeritus
7976 County Trunk I
Custer, WI 54423
USA
hschabel(a)uwsp.edu
