[IUFRO RG 7.03 FORENT] Northeast Forest Health Workshop May 15-17, Bethel, Maine

Registration URL: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=ubvoh9lab&oeidk=a0… This year, the Northeast Forest Health Workshop is being held jointly with the spring meeting for the New England Society of American Foresters on Wednesday through Friday, May 15-17, at the Sunday River Resort near Bethel, Maine . The full conference is entitled, "What's in Your Woods?" The program will start with a joint session from 1 pm to 3 pm, and then we’ll have our own indoor session from 3:30 to 5 pm. People who have agreed to give talks at this time include Nicholas Brazee (wood-inhabiting fungi), Don Davis (fungal biocontrol of tree-of-heaven), Dale Bergdahl (butternut health), Shawn Kenaley (fungal pathogens of hardwood plantations), and a group presentation on ash health and the Emerald Ash Borer. After dinner on our own, we can return for station reports from 7 to 9 pm. On Thursday, an all-day field trip is planned. In the morning, Isabel Munck (USFS, Durham) and William Ostrofsky (Maine Forest Service) will host a tour of white pine needle damage/defoliation and Sirococcus shoot blight of eastern hemlock and red pine. In the afternoon, Bill Livingston (UMaine), Kara Lorion (UMaine), Colleen Teerling (Maine Forest Service), and Nate Siegert (USFS, Durham) will host a tour involving ash dieback/decline and monitoring for the emerald ash borer, including hands-on demonstrations for girdling EAB trap trees. We are also talking with the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance to have representatives attend the meeting, and they would discuss the use of ash from their perspective and the need to conserve healthy brown ash (=black ash) with basket-quality wood. Thursday evening will have a bar-b-q that's included in the registration cost. Friday morning will include another field trip. We'll travel on our own from Sunday River Resort to Wolfe's Neck State Park on the coast near Freeport, Maine. Alison Kanoti (Maine Forest Service) has arranged a tour in the region to view a winter moth infestation, a browntail moth infestation site where a BTM virus has been released, and a hemlock woolly adelgid infestation where predatory beetles have been released. The tour will end around noon after which LL Bean and factory outlets await you. Early-bird registration cost is $99 including field trip transportation and all meals on Thursday and breakfast & box lunch on Friday. After March 15, registration increases to $120. Student registration is $70. Registration rates go up after April 15. Hotel rooms will be $79 per night at a nearby inn or $94 per night at the Summit Resort which has the meeting rooms. To make reservations contact the Reservation Department directly: (800) 207-2365. Please request the NESAF room rate for the "NESAF 93 Annual Meeting 2013" The group rates are available until April 15, 2013. More program information is on NESAF web site: http://nesaf.org/ Registration is done on line at: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=ubvoh9lab&oeidk=a0… Be sure to select Tour 6 and Friday Tour 3. Let me know if you have any questions, and I hope to see you in May! Bill -- Dr. William H. Livingston Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs School of Forest Resources University of Maine 5755 Nutting Hall, rm 201b Orono, ME 04469-5755 USA ph: 207-581-2990 fx: 207-581-2875 Email: WilliamL(a)maine.edu Web: http://www.forest.umaine.edu/