Intertribal Nursery Council Meeting, Moscow, Idaho (July 14, 2009) .......................................................................... 1
Protecting Black Ash from the Emerald Ash Borer ............................................................................................................. 3
Les Benedict
Establishing, conducting, and Maintaining Mutually Beneficial, Collaborative Research
Efforts with Tribes .......................................................................................................................................................... 5
Justin E. James, Jr.
Daniela J. Shebitz
An Introduction to the Colorado Plateau Native Plant Initiative .......................................................................................... 8
Wayne Padgett
Peggy Olwell
Scott Lambert
Green Gold: The Potential and Pitfalls for North American Medicinal Plants
in the US Botanical Supplements Industry .................................................................................................................. 14
Aswini Pai
Matthew Skeels
When Smokey Says “No”: Fire-less methods for Growing Plants Adapted to
Cultural Fire Regimes .................................................................................................................................................. 17
Daniela Shebitz
Justine E. James, Jr.
Joint Meeting of the Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association and Intermountain
Container Seedling Growers’ Association, Moscow, Idaho (July 15 to 16, 2009) .................................................... 25
Alternative Substrates Used in forest Nurseries in Mexico
Arnulfo Aldrete**
Influence of Mineral Nutrition on Susceptibility and Recovery of Planted Seedlings of Ungulate Browse ....................... 27
Owen T. Burney
Douglass F. Jacobs
Detection and Control of Fusarium oxysporum and Cylindrocarpon destructans in Forest Nursery Soils ....................... 32
Catherine Crosby
Lynne Carpenter-Boggs
Stewart Higgins
Nabil Khadduri
Using Waste Biochar to Reduce Restoration Costs and Sequester Carbon
R. Kasten Dumroese
Karl Englund
Juha Heiskanen
Anthony Davis**
Protocols for Sagebrush Seed Processing and Seedling Production at the Lucky Peak Nursery ................................... 35
Clark D. Fleege
Strategies and Challenges for Nursery Production: Perspectives on Where We’re Going and
Where We’ve Been ...................................................................................................................................................... 38
Diane L. Haase
Equilibrium Relative Humidity as a Tool to Monitor Seed Moisture .................................................................................. 45
Robert P. Karrfalt
Effect of Organic Amendments on Douglas-Fir Transplants Grown in Fumigated Versus
Non-Fumigated Soil ..................................................................................................................................................... 48
Nabil Khudduri
Seeds for Success Program
Peggy Olwell
Scott Lambert**

How to Properly Conduct a Stocktype Study
Jeremy Pinto
R. Kasten Dumroese
Anthony S. Davis
Thomas D. Landis**
Sulfometuron Methyl: Its Use in Forestry and Potential Phytotoxicity .............................................................................. 53
Nathan D. Robertson
Anthony S. Davis
100 years of Nursery Production at the University of Idaho
David L. Wenny**
Northeastern Forest and Conservation Nursery Association Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan
(July 20 to 23, 2009) ................................................................................................................................................... 61
Welcome to the Michigan State University Forestry Program
Dan Keathley**
The Emerald Ash Borer—A Michigan Response Project Update
John Bedford**
Forest Tree Improvement at Michigan State University: Past, Present, and Future......................................................... 63
Paul Bloese
Determining Irrigation Distribution Uniformity and Efficiency for Nurseries ...................................................................... 66
R. Thomas Fernandez
Emerging Diseases of Christmas Trees
Dennis Fulbright**
An Overview of Forestry in the Farm Bill and natural Resources Conservation Service
Forestry Resources ..................................................................................................................................................... 69
Andy Henriksen
Effects of Pine Sawdust, Hardwood Sawdust, and Peat on Bareroot Soil Properties ...................................................... 71
Paul Koll
Martin F. Jurgensen
R. Kasten Dumroese
The Forests of Michigan—From Ice to Axe to Growth...................................................................................................... 76
Larry A. Leefers
Soil Fumigants—Risk Mitigation Measures for Reregistration ......................................................................................... 79
Eric Olson
Mosaic Stunting in Jack Pine Seedlings in a Northern Michigan Bareroot Nursery ......................................................... 84
Lynette Potvin
R. Kasten Dumroese
Martin F. Jurgensen
Dana Richter
Management of White Grubs in Forest Nurseries ............................................................................................................ 88
David Smitley
List of Participants ...................................................................................................................................... 91
Intertribal Nursery Council Meeting .................................................................................................................................. 93
Joint Meeting of the Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association and Intermountain container
Seedling Growers’ Association .................................................................................................................................... 95
Northeastern Forest and Conservation Nursery Association Meeting .............................................................................. 99
**No papers received; for more information, contact authors at the addresses provided in the list of attendees.