Continental Dialogue Meeting
October 5-6, 2011
Millennium Harvest House -- Boulder, CO

Meeting Summary

• October 2011 Meeting Summary

Meeting Materials

• Final Participant List
• Steering Committee Roster
• Initiative and Activity Update
• Speaker Bios
• Poster Session Abstracts

Presentations

• Orientation to the Continental Dialogue
  Bill Toomey, The Nature Conservancy
• Introductions and Pathways in the Rocky Mountains
  Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University

Panel #1: Applying What We Know to Managing the Firewood Pathway

• Introduction and Summary of the Dialogue’s Firewood Outreach Coordinating Initiative
  Leigh Greenwood, The Nature Conservancy
• Overview of Firewood Research Efforts and Results
  Bill Jacobi, Colorado State University
• Interior West, Regional Efforts on Firewood Pathways (no presentation slides available)
  Les Koch, Wyoming State Forestry Division
• Pacific Northwest, Regional Efforts on Firewood Pathways
  Wendy Brown, Washington Invasive Species Council

Panel #2: Climate Change Impacts on Forests and the Spread of Invasives

• Modeling Likelihood of Pest in Various Parts of the Country
  Rob Venette, USFS Northern Research Station
• Insect and Plant Interactions in the Context of Carbon Levels in the Atmosphere
  Evan DeLucia, University of Illinois
• Relationship of Climate Change and Exotic Forests Pests (no presentation slides available)
  Troy Weldy, The Nature Conservancy (on behalf of Frank Lowenstein, The Nature Conservancy)

Panel #3: Technology Applications for Managing Invasives

• What is the ExFOR (Exotic Forest Pest Database)?
  Marla Downing, USFS Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team
• Exotic Forest Pest Biocontrol
  Rob Venette, USFS Northern Research Station (on behalf of Juli Gould, USDA APHIS PPQ)

Panel #4: Collaborative Efforts on Various Non-Native Forest Insects and Disease – Successes, Failures, and Opportunities

• Lessons Learned from Great Lake States’ Experience with EAB
  Ken Rauscher, Michigan Department of Agriculture, retired
• Collaborative Efforts to Protect and Restore High-Elevation Five-Needle Pines
  Diana Tomback, University of Colorado Denver
• Possible Responses to Cumulative Threats to High Elevation Pines
  Rob Mangold, USFS Forest Health Protection

Poster Presentations

• Firewood Pest Passports: A Youth Activity on the Risks of Moving Firewood
  Presented by Janice Alexander, UC Cooperative Extension, and Katie Palmieri, UC Berkeley
• Invasive Species Management in the Forest: Theories and Practice
  Presented by Donald Eggen, Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
• Firewood Outreach Coordinating Initiative
  Presented by Leigh Greenwood, The Nature Conservancy
• History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme
  Presented by Susan Schechter, Purdue University