2015 Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation Annual Meeting
Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon
Wednesday, September 16
0830 to 1430 - Field Trip to Dorena Genetic Resource Center*.
Thursday, September 17
0800 to 1630 - Field Trip to Crater Lake National Park. Meet at Southern Oregon University. A bus will
be provided (space limited)
0900 – 1700 - Field Trip to Crater Creek Research Natural Area (N.Calif). Meet at Southern Oregon
University.
1800 – 1930 Public Talk: Messe Auditorium Open to the Public and WPEF meeting attendees
Start Time
1800
Title
Whitebark Pine in Peril
1830
A Regional Perspective Whitebark Pine in
Oregon and Washington
Our local Whitebark Pine Whitebark Pine
at Crater Lake National Park
1845
Presenter
Diana Tomback, Professor, University of
Denver
Kristen Chadwick, Plant Pathologist, USFS
FHP, Sandy, OR
Jen Beck, Botanist, Crater Lake National Park
Friday, September 18: Indoor Session
Introduction and Keynotes
Start Time Title
8:00
Conference welcome and logistics
8:15
First Keynote address: NEED TITLE
8:45
Second Keynote address: Status Review of
White Bark Pine
First Panel: Inventory and Monitoring
Moderator:
Start Time Title
9:15
Whitebark Pine Regeneration in the
Warners
9:35
Mapping and Assessment of WBP in
Northern California
9:55
BREAK
10:20
A model framework for assessing the
impact of disease and pest incidence on
populations of Whitebark pine
10:40
Assessing the severity and rate of spread
of Cronartium ribicola in Sequoia and
Kings Canyon National Parks
11:00
Hi5 Database
Second Panel: Ecology, Restoration, and Resistance
Moderator:
Start Time Title
11:20
Taking the Long-View and Acting Now –
Proactive Strategy for Sustaining
Threatened High Elevation Five-Needle
Pines
11:40
Blister Rust Resistance in White Pine
Species of Western North America – the
Good, the Bad, the Uncertain
12:00
Lunch
Presenter
Kristen Chadwick, Plant Pathologist, USFS
FHP, Sandy, OR;
Jen Beck, Botanist, Crater Lake National Park;
and
Diana Tomback, Professor, University of
Denver
Rob Mangold, Director, USFS Pacific
Northwest Research Station
Jim Thrailkill or Sam Friedman (Botanist), US
Fish and Wildlife
Presenter
Danny Cluck, Entomologist, USFS FHP,
Susanville, CA
Michael Kauffman, California Native Plant
Society
Coffee and snacks in the lobby
Erik Jules, Professor, Humboldt State
University
Jonathan Nesmith, Ecologist, Sierra Nevada
Network, NPS Inventory & Monitoring
Program
Gregg DeNitto, Plant Pathologist, USFS FHP
Presenter
Anna Schoettle, Research Plant
Ecophysiologist, USFS RMRS, Fort Collins, CO
Richard Sniezko, Center Geneticist, USFS
Dorena Genetic Resource Center
On your own
Second Panel (continued): Ecology, Restoration, and Resistance
Moderator:
Start Time Title
Presenter
1:30
Restoring whitebark pine in the face of
Bob Keane, Research Ecologist, USFS RMRS,
Start Time
1:50
2:10
Title
climate change
Vulnerability of Great Basin bristlecone
pine and foxtail pine to mountain pine
beetle
The challenge of restoring whitebark pine
in wilderness
Third Panel: Regional Updates/Status
Moderator:
Start Time Title
2:30
High Elevation White Pines: The View
From California
2:50
Region 6 Restoration Strategy
3:10
Break
3:30
Pinus strobiformis regeneration ecology
and geographic variation in adaptive traits
3:50
News from the North: Canadian Updates
Fourth Panel: Genomics and landscapes
Moderator:
Start Time Title
4:10
The genomic landscape of water use
efficiency for foxtail pine (Pinus
balfouriana Grev. & Balf.)
4:30
How Glaciers, Mountains, and Climate
Shaped a Species: the Evolutionary
History of Whitebark Pine and Implications
for Conservation Management
4:50
Using transcriptomics to identify
candidate genes for blister rust resistance
in whitebark pine
5:10
The genetic architecture of survivalrelated traits for whitebark pine (Pinus
albicaulis Engelm.) at fine spatial scales an example from the Lake Tahoe Basin
Synthesis and Closeout
Start Time Title
5:30
Where we go from here
6:00 – Poster Session, Silent Auction, and Social Hour
Presenter
Missoula, MT
Barbara Bentz, Research Entomologist, USFS
Beth Hahn, Branch Chief of Wilderness
Science, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research
Institute, Missoula, MT
Presenter
Sara Wilson, Title, Region 5 USFS
Andy Bower, Geneticist, USFS, Olympia, WA
Coffee and snacks in the lobby
Betsy Goodrich, Plant Pathologist, USFS FHP
Wenatchee, WA
Michael Murray , Plant Pathologist, British
Columbia Ministry of Forests
Presenter
Andrew Eckert, Title, Virginia Commonwealth
University
Jennifer Gruhn, Ph.D. student, Washington
University
Zolton Bair, Ph.D. Student, Oregon State
University
Andrew Eckert, Assistant Professor, Virginia
Commonwealth University
Presenter
Robyn Darbyshire, Regional Silviculturist,
USDA Pacific Northwest Region
Saturday, September 19
0800 to 1630 Field Trip to Crater Lake National Park. Meet at Southern Oregon University. A bus will be
provided (space limited)
Sunday, September 20
0830 to 1430 - Field Trip to Dorena Genetic Resource Center*.
Monday, September 21
0830 to 1430 - Field Trip to Dorena Genetic Resource Center* and then travel to Newport, OR to attend
WIFDWC.
*Optional ‘identical’ fieldtrips will be offered to Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) to maximize
opportunity for colleagues attending either the WPEF or the subsequent WIFDWC meetings in Oregon
to attend. The size of each group can be small or large, but contact Richard Sniezko, rsniezko@fs.fed.us,
for planning purposes. Fieldtrips to visit DGRC and a nearby orchard/field site to see blister rust trial
Sponsored by:
Klamath Inventory and Monitoring Network
Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation
Crater Lake Institute
Forest Service
Crater Lake National Park