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Planning Weed Management for Ecosystem Recovery
Tahoe Field Trip at the 2003 Symposium
2003 Cal-IPC Red Alert! New invasions and recent expansions
Mandy Tu, The Nature Conservancy Wildland Invasive Species Team
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1: Laws and Regulations
- An overview of environmental compliance and permitting
Petra Unger, EDAW Inc. - Efficient watershed and regional permitting and compliance strategies
Ron Unger, EDAW Inc. - The role of the Agricultural Commissioner
Joshua Huntsinger, Placer County Ag. Commissioner’s Office - Herbicide use, water quality, and regulatory considerations
Jason Churchill, Lahontan Water Board - Cultural resource statutes, weed management, and restoration
Lynne Christiansen , San Diego County Historian
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2: Assessing, Planning, and Setting Priorities
- Invasive plant infestation assessment on Catalina Island: Determination of mapping sample size and accuracy
John Knapp, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo - How did we get the project going and how are we doing it? Assessing, planning, and prioritizing for the Eastern Nevada Tri-county weed project
Robert E. Wilson, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, White Pine - A watershed approach to Arundo donax removal and riparian restoration
Karen Gaffney, Circuit Rider Productions - Planning for weed control in the context of threatened and endangered species
Maria Ryan, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
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4: Working with Ecosystem Processes in Recovery
- Atmospheric CO2 influences on recovery potential
Jay Arnone, Desert Research Institute - Nitrogen augmentation of soils
Jeff Corbin, UC Berkeley and Carla D’Antonio, USDA-ARS - Fire regimes and potential for recovery
Matt Brooks, USGS and Mike Pellant, BLM - Hydrological influences on recovery potential
Julie Stromberg, Arizona State University
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5: New Managment Tools and Techniques
- Removing biomass and controlling weeds: Report on brown brush monitor trials
Stuart Gray, UAP Timberland/Western Shasta RCD and Beau Miller, Dow AgroSciences - Native grass seeding and mulch effects on weedy species
Michael Hogan, Integrated Environmental Restoration Services Inc. - Managed goat grazing–It works
Hugh and Sarah Bunten, Southern Oregon Goat Producers - Imazapyr herbicide–Effective uses on invasive plants
Bob Brenton, Independent Pest Control Advisor
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7: Monitoring and Evaluating Recovery Progress
- Introduction: When is restoration appropriate?
Carla Bossard, St. Mary’s College of California - Defining and evaluating recovery
Jeanne Chambers, US Forest Service - How do I use my monitoring tools?
David Pyke, USGS - A decade of restoration at the Lanphere Dunes: Monitoring at multiple scales
Andrea Pickart, Humboldt Bay NWR
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8 & 9: Contributed Papers
- Tall whitetop eradication and native plant community restoration
Shannon Peters, UC Berkeley and Julie Etra, Western Botanical Services - Experimental revegetation strategies and technologies for restoration of native shrub/grass communitites on saltcedar (Tamarix spp.) infestation sites
Kenneth Lair and Sarah Wynn, US Bureau of Reclamation - Abundance and distribution of non-native woody species in Sacramento Valley riparian zones
John Hunter, John Sterling, Willian Widdowson, Edward Beedy, Jones & Stokes; Diana Stralberg and Nadav Nur, Point Reyes Bird Observatory - Getting the job done: Working within the regulatory environment at Lake Tahoe to manage weeds
Sue Donaldson, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension - Tilling Himalayan blackberry out of Yosemite Valley
Lisa Ordonez, National Park Service - Nitrogen deposition impacts on nutrient-poor grassland ecosystem: conservation, management, and restoration
Stuart Weiss , Creekside Center for Earth Observations - Tarping as an alternative to chemical stump treatment of Acacia dealbata
Matt Horowitz, Santa Cruz Natural Resources and Employment Program - Biocontrols and restoration
David Headrick, Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo - The potential contribution of natural enemies from Mediterranean Europe to the management of the invasive weed Arundo donax (Graminae; Arundinae) in the US
Andrew Kirk, Tim Widmer, G. Campobasso, USDA-ARS European Biological Control, Ray Carruthers and Tom Dudley, USDA-ARS Western Regional Research Center - The use of remote sensing to assess biological control impact on salcedar in Lovelock, Nevada
R. Carruthers, G. Anderson, and J. Knight, USDA-ARS - Rapid evolution of invasive California poppies
Beth Leger, UC Davis Graduate Group in Ecology - Prediction of Cynara cardunculus seedling development using a degree-day approach
Virginia White and Jodie Holt, UC Riverside - Invasibility of experimental riparian communities by Arundo donax
Lauren Quin and Jodie Holt, UC Riverside - Seasonal activity and impacts of Arundo donax
Michael Rauterkus and Jodie Holt, UC Riverside - Patterns of seedling establishment in artichoke thistle, Cynara cardunculus
Robin Marushia and Jodie Holt, UC Riverside