Taking the Long View

October 2-5, 2013, Lake Arrowhead

View program and abstracts. Links below are pdf files converted from Powerpoint presentations.

Pre-Symposium workshop:
Climate-Smart Land Management

Presentations and additional resources are available at under the Climate Adaptation section of our website.

DPR Laws and Regulations

• Assessing human risk from pesticide exposure. Robert Krieger, University of California- Riverside
• Registering a pesticide in California. Richard Spas, California Department of Pesticide Regulation
• Interpreting pesticide regulations and labels. David Chang, County of Santa Barbara Agricultural
  Commissioner’s Office
• Assessing herbicide risks to Threatened or Endangered wildlife species. Joel Trumbo, California
  Department of Fish and Wildlife

Session 1. Learning from Southern California Deserts and Mountains

Presentations differ from the printed program due to the federal government shutdown.

• Plant ecology of desert annuals. Travis Huxman, University of California-Irvine
• Sahara mustard: from here to gone. Christopher McDonald, UC Cooperative Extension
• The feasibility of chaparral restoration on type-converted slopes. Megan Engel, California State University – San Bernardino
• Raiders of the Lost Ark: resurrecting the San Miguel Island chaparral seedbank. John Knapp, The Nature Conservancy

Session 2. Annual Member Meeting

• New Weed Alerts! Joseph DiTomaso, University of California – Davis
• A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California Laura Cunningham

Session 3. Communication and New Threats

• Crossing the Line: Working with private land owners and slender false brome (Brachypodium
  sylvaticum). Ellen Gartside, Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
• Red-sepaled evening-primrose (Oenothera glazioviana): an increasing threat to native genotypes and natural and restored habitats. Wayne Ferren, ARCADIS-US, Inc.
• Reaching novel audiences with information about invasive species. Sabrina Drill, UC Cooperative
  Extension
• Bridging the information gap between land managers and research scientists. Virginia
  Matzek, Santa Clara University

Session 4. Program Strategies

• The Nature Conservancy’s program to eradicate 24 non-native invasive plant species from Santa
  Cruz Island. John Knapp, The Nature Conservancy
• Vinca major and stone pine control in an endangered island endemic plant population – an update. Ken Owen, Channel Islands Restoration
• Early planning tool for habitat restoration. Noreen Murano and Casey Lanier, Wildscape
  Restoration, Inc.
• An early detection pilot project in California State Parks. Ramona Robison and Lana Meade,
  CA Dept. of Parks and Recreation

Session 5. Current Student Research

• Response of soil nitrogen cycling to the interaction of invasive plants, simulated cattle
  grazing, and nitrogen additions. Chelsea Carey, UC Merced
• The use of phenology and plant morphological traits to reassemble invaded plant communities. Bridget Hilbig, UC Riverside
• Effects of nitrogen deposition on coastal sage scrub invasion and reestablishment. Justin Valliere, UC Riverside

Session 6. Tools of the Trade

• Woody plant control. Ken Moore, Wildlands Restoration Team
• Status of biological control projects on terrestrial invasive alien weeds in California. Mike Pitcairn, CDFA
• Smartphone app to collect weed data. Cynthia Powell, Calflora

Session 7. The Novel Ecosystem Debate Reframed for Land Managers

• An ecologist’s perspective.Timothy Seastedt, University of Colorado, Boulder
• A geneticist’s perspective. Deborah Rogers, Center for Natural Lands Management

Session 8. Discussion Groups

1. IPM Q and A
2. Invasive species beyond weeds: Aquatic species | Golden-spotted oak borer
3. Prioritization tools and landscape-level planning
4. Novel ecosystems and climate-smart land management
5. Saharan mustard
6. Biocontrol

Session 9. Nitrogen Deposition

• Distribution of reactive nitrogen species in California based on passive sampler monitoring campaigns. Andrzej Bytnerowicz, USDA Forest Service (presented by Stuart Weiss)
• Critical loads for atmospheric nitrogen deposition in California. Mark Fenn, USDA Forest Service (presented by Stuart Weiss)
• The California nitrogen deposition initiative: funding weed management through mitigation. Stuart Weiss, Creekside Center for Earth

Session 10. Grassland Management

• Three-year effects of aminopyralid on a grassland plant community. Joseph DiTomaso,
  UC Davis
• Long-term recovery of native perennial grasslands utilizing scraping, seeding and Hydromechanical Obliteration treatments:
  a five-year report. Lech Naumovich, Creekside Center for Earth Observation
• Effects of four herbicides on the survival and growth of native perennial grasses. Jutta Burger,
  Irvine Ranch Conservancy

Session 11. Impacts of Invasive Species on Ecosystem Services

• Building an Arundo control jobs program. Julie Rentner, River Partners
• Do invasive plant species negatively affect diet and preference of a native California bumble bee? Alexandra Harmon-Threatt, University of Illinois
• Aquatic weed ecology and influence on ecosystem services in lakes: case study from Emerald Bay, Lake
  Tahoe. Dan Shaw, California State Parks

Posters

Student Posters

• The effects of invasive pollen on the seed set of a native plant. Daniela Bruckman, UC Irvine
• The feasibility of chaparral restoration on type-converted slopes. Megan Engel, CSU San Bernardino
• Effects of Ehrharta erecta on the redwood understory and implications for restoration. Anna Godinho, UC Santa Cruz
• Summer irrigation as a tool for restoring invaded serpentine grassland? Madison Hoffacker, Chapman University
• Evolutionary responses of California grassland species to variation in precipitation and nitrogen levels following
  prescribed fire. Amy Ortega, Chapman University
• A Frankenstein experiment gone awry: ecology and evolution of an invasive veldt grass. Courtenay Ray, UC Santa Cruz

General Posters

• Invasive aquatic weeds: implications for mosquito and vector management activities. Charles E Blair, Mosquito and Vector Management District of Santa Barbara County
• WHIPPET : Online tool for prioritizing control of invasive plant populations. Elizabeth Brusati and Dana Morawitz, Cal-IPC
• Utilizing volunteers for resource management. Reginald Durant, Back to Natives Restoration
• Artichoke thistle control and endangered species habitat in preserved land. Tiffany Edwards, WRA Inc.
• Database of management trials to provide site-specific decision support tool for invasive species control. Valerie Eviner, UC Davis
• Impacts of native vs. exotic grassland vegetation on multiple ecosystem services. Valerie Eviner, UC Davis
• The budget crisis and invasive species management: results from a survey of Weed Management Area chairs. Jennifer Funk, Chapman University
• Sunrise Powerlink: adaptive weed control strategy. Robert W. Hobbs, RECON Environmental, Inc.
• The effects of soil on coastal sage scrub and invasive Harding grass (Phalaris aquatica) to improve restoration success. Irina Irvine, Santa Monica Mountains NRA
• Cost assessment of different methods of reducing the abundance of Sahara mustard in Borrego Springs, California. Christopher McDonald, UC Cooperative Extension
• Searching for a silver bullet: reducing the invasive Sahara mustard while preserving wildflowers. Christopher McDonald, UC Cooperative Extension
• Prospects for biological control of Cape-ivy with the Cape-ivy fly and the cape-ivy moth. Patrick J. Moran, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
• Effects of native establishment in late summer. Joseph Paternoster, DriWater
• Nitrogen deposition, invasion by Bromus spp., and competition for water in a California grassland. Erin Questad, CSU-Pomona
• A study of drought resistance of stinkwort (Dittrichia graveolens). Don Thomas, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

See our Symposia Archive for presentations, proceedings and discussion group notes for previous symposia.