The East Texas Forest Entomology Seminar is scheduled for Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, April 30 and May 1.  To register please CLICK HERE.

April 13, 2009

MEMORANDUM

To:  All Seminar Participants

Re:  Spring 2009 East Texas Forest Entomology Seminar

The East Texas Forest Entomology Seminar is scheduled for Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, April 30 and May 1.  Thanks to special permission from Abitibi Consolidated Corporation, Thursday's session will be held as usual at Kurth Lake Lodge, between Lufkin and Nacogdoches.  The session on Friday will be in Room 117 (Conference Room), Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture at Stephen F. Austin State University. An agenda is attached.  The Thursday evening slot is open, if anyone wants to contribute a slide show of recent travels.  A laptop and projector will be on hand.

The traditional Thursday evening meal featuring crawfish will be served at Kurth Lake.  The registration fee will be $30.00 for professionals and $7.00 for students and retirees, which includes the Thursday evening meal and coffee breaks.  It is important that you preregister or notify Dave and let him know how many persons to expect from your group, to assure ample food and refreshments.  To preregister and prepay your registration with a credit card, visit the website at http://forestry.sfasu.edu and click on conference registration at the bottom left of the home page. 

The meeting is being co-hosted by the Texas Forest Service, Forest Pest Management, and the Center for Applied Studies, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, Stephen F. Austin State University.  Foresters who attend the seminar will qualify for CFE credits.

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting. 

Dave Kulhavy                                                 Ronald Billings

Center of Applied Studies                              Forest Pest Management

Arthur Temple College of Forestry                 Texas Forest Service

Stephen F. Austin S. U.                                  College Station, TX 77840

P.O. Box 6109, SFA Station                          Phone: (979) 458-6650

Nacogdoches, TX  75962

Phone:  (936) 468-3301

 AGENDA

EAST TEXAS FOREST ENTOMOLOGY SEMINAR

April 30 - May 1, 2009

Thursday, April 30, 2009, Kurth Lake Lodge

            Moderator: Ron Billings

12:00 - 1:00 PM         Registration

1:00 - 1:10                  Welcome and Introductions

1:10 - 1:30                  Status of Southern Pine Beetle and Other Forest Pests in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana             and Mississippi
            Speaker:  Joe Pase, Texas Forest Service

1:30 - 2:00                       Detecting Forest Canopy Change Using NDWI:  A Historical Look at the Red Oak                                                    Borer Outbreak

                                                Speakers: Josh Jones, Jason Tullis and Fred Stephen, University of Arkansas  

2:00 - 2:30                  Drought Events as Initiators of Northern Red Oak Decline and Red Oak Borer                                                          Infestation

                                                                Speakers: Laurel Haavik and Fred Stephen, University of Arkansas  

2:30 - 3:00                        Biomass and BioMax: A FLO Chart

                                                Speaker:  Forrest L. Oliveria, US Forest Service, Forest Health Protection

3:00 - 3:30      Break

3:30 - 4:00                  New Options for Leaf-cutting Ant Control: Size Does Matter

                                                Speakers: Don Grosman and Bill Upton, Texas Forest Service

 4:00 - 4:30                      New Species of Dendroctonus in Mexico

                                                Speaker:  Brian Sullivan, U.S. Forest Service, Southern Research Station

4:30 - 4:45                  Status of the Southern Pine Beetle Encyclopedia

                                                Speakers: Robert Coulson, Texas A&M University, and Kier Klepzig, U.S. Forest                                                                         Service, Southern Research Station

4:45 - 5:00                  Basic Landscape Ecology

                                                  Speakers: Robert Coulson and Maria Tchakerian, Texas A&M University

 5:00 - 6:00                 Attitude Adjustment and Horseshoes

6:00                             Dinner

7:30                             Evening Presentation: A Brief View of the Biology of Antarctica      

                                                      Speaker: Craig Rudolph, U.S. Forest Service, Southern Research Station

Friday, May 1, 2009, SFASU Forestry School, Room 117

        Moderator: Dave Kulhavy

8:00 - 8:30 AM             Registration, Coffee and Cookies

8:30 - 9:00                  Characterization of the Subcortical Predatory Interactions by Larval Woodborers on             the Larvae of Bark Beetles using Molecular Tools

                                                Speakers: Erich Schoeller and Jeremy Allison, Louisiana State University

9:00 - 9:30                       LIDAR and Forests: The Truth

                                                Speakers: Andrew Birt, Lei Wang, Maria Tchakerian, Robert Coulson, Weimin Xi,                                                             Charles Lafon, David Cairns, Texas A&M University, and Jim Guldin, U.S.                                                             Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 

9:30 - 10:00                     New Directions for the Texas Forest Service

                                                Speaker:  Bill Oates, Texas Forest Service

10:00 - 10:30              Break

10:30- 11:00                   Impact of Hurricane Ike on Thinned and Unthinned Pine Stands in East Texas

                                                                Speakers:  Aleksandar Dozic and Ron Billings, Texas Forest Service

11:00 - 11:30       What's New in the Teaching World of Forest Insects and Diseases

                                                Speaker: Dave Kulhavy, Stephen F. Austin State University

11:30 - 12:00              Preparing for the Inevitable: The Emerald Ash Borer Preparedness Plan for Texas

                                                Speakers: Stephen Clarke, U.S. Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, and                                                                     Ron Billings, Texas Forest Service

12:00 PM                    Adjourn