Dear WIFDWC Colleagues, The date for this year’s Western International Forest Disease Work Conference (WIFDWC) is changing. Originally scheduled for September 15-19, we are changing the dates to October 27-31 because of USFS budget restrictions. We understand this may impact some of your plans and regret any inconvenience. Without the change we thought our attendance would be very limited. The rest of the meeting details remain the same—Holiday Inn Downtown at the Park in Missoula, MT. The following is what we need you to do. If you have made room reservations at the Holiday Inn for WIFDWC in September, your reservation has been cancelled. You need to contact the Holiday Inn again to make a new reservation for the week of October 27. Contact the Missoula hotel directly and ask for the group name WIFDWC. The phone number is 406-721-8550. Do not book online or with the Holiday Inn toll-free number. Deadline for making your room reservation is now September 27. If you have registered for the conference and have no changes, then you need do nothing. If you have not registered and want to attend, the registration deadline has been extended to October 10. Register online at https://app.mt.gov/cgi-bin/confreg/register/index.cgi?CONFERENCE_ID=2302 If you registered and are no longer able to attend, please send an email to John Schwandt (jschwandt(a)fs.fed.us) and you will receive a full refund of conference fees. Student Presentations – All students are invited and encouraged to spend a few minutes talking at the conference on Tuesday morning. These are not formal presentations, but an opportunity for students to be introduced to the attendees. Contact Michelle Cleary at Michelle.Cleary(a)gov.bc.ca to make arrangements. Formal student papers should be arranged through Bob Edmonds at bobe(a)u.washington.edu. Special papers should be arranged through Bob Edmonds at bobe(a)u.washington.edu Regional Reports – Oral presentations of Regional/State-Province/University reports normally done on Tuesday will not be done this year. Such reports can be submitted to Fred Baker (fred.baker(a)usu.edu) prior to the meeting for inclusion in registration packets or copies can be brought to the meeting for distribution. Visit the website for details http://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/technology/wif/index.htm Apologies for multiple emails. Gregg WIFDWC Chair Gregg A. DeNitto Group Leader, Missoula Field Office USDA Forest Service Forest Health Protection Phone: 406-329-3637 FAX: 406-329-3557Cell: 406-396-8840 E-mail: gdenitto(a)fs.fed.us Website: http://www.fs.fed.us/r1-r4/spf/fhp/