Dear Friends and Colleagues:
 
The 73rd annual Northeastern Forest Pest Council meeting will be held on 22-23 March 2011, at the historic Tom Quick Inn (http://www.thetomquickinn.net/) in Milford, Pennsylvania (pop. 1,104).
 
Registration materials, hotel information, and an agenda will be emailed in December.  The developing agenda will include a field tour of long-term ecological research sites in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area (http://www.nps.gov/dewa/index.htm), a tour of Gifford Pinchot‘s ancestral home (http://www.fs.fed.us/na/gt/), the return of the Kodachrome slide parade, the Gerald N. Lanier graduate student forum, and State and Province forest pest updates.  
 
If you wish to propose a session topic and/or speakers, please email your suggestions by November 15th to the NEFPC Vice Chair, Allison Kanoti (allison.m.kanoti@maine.gov)
 
Please save the dates and consider joining us.
 
Sincerely,
 
 
Dave Mausel
Secretary/Treasurer, NEFPC