October 28-31, San Diego
Ed King, Placer Co. Ag. Dept. and Pete Frye, Marin Co. Open Space District discuss how their agencies are using Calflora’s Weed Manager system
Photo: J.P. Marie
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Training: Strategic Approaches to Wildland Weed Management
- Course syllabus
- Principles of Planning to Manage Weeds.
Steve Schoenig, Dept of Fish and Wildlife - Management Plans for Invasive Plants.
Brent Johnson, Pinnacles National Park - Writing Goals and Objectives.
Andrea Williams, Marin Municipal Water District - Risk Assessment and Prioritization.
Gina Darin, Department of Water Resources - Strategic Approaches to Prevention.
Steve Schoenig, Dept of Fish and Wildlife - Permitting.
Jason Giessow, DENDRA, Inc. - Implementation Plans.
Brent Johnson, Pinnacles National Park - Adaptive Management and Monitoring.
Andrea Williams, Marin Municipal Water District
DPR: Laws and Regulations
- Is glyphosate a carcinogen?
Sheryl Beauvais, CA Dept. of Pesticide Regulation - Assessing herbicide impacts to pollinators.
Richard Bireley, CA Dept. of Pesticide Regulation - Heat-related illness and herbicide use.
Carmen Cisneros, Cal OSHA - Understanding and preventing herbicide drift.
Joel Trumbo, CA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
Session 1. Habitat Conservation Planning and Invasive Plant Management
- Welcome to San Diego, the nation’s most biologically diverse county!
Tom Oberbauer, County of San Diego Multiple Species Conservation Planning Division (retired) - Lessons learned and the future of Habitat Conservation Planning in California.
Elizabeth Taylor, UC Irvine Law Center for Land, Environment, & Natural Resources - Innovations in landscape-level invasive plant management.
Doug Johnson, Cal-IPC
HCP Session 1. Invasive Plant Management through Habitat Conservation Planning
- Invasive Plant Management across the San Diego NCCPs.
Patricia Gordon-Reedy, Conservation Biology Institute - Management of Invasive Plants in Central-Coastal Orange County: Twenty Years and Counting.
Milan Mitrovich, Natural Communities Coalition (formerly Nature Reserve of Orange County) - Invasive Plant Management through the Coachella Valley NCCP/MSHCP.
Katie Barrows, Coachella Valley Conservation Commission
Session 2. Stopping New Invaders
- Initiating the San Diego regional invasive plant Early Detection and Rapid Response (EDRR) program in support of NCCP.
Jason Giessow, DENDRA, Inc. - A CNPS Chapter model for early detection and effective response to emergent invasive weeds.
Ron Vanderhoff, California Native Plant Society– Orange Co. - Stopping the spread of Volutaria across the California desert.
Chris McDonald, UC Cooperative Extension - Rose colored glasses for sale! Weed-free forage and mulch is the enemy of the perfect!
Bobbi Simpson, National Park Service
Panel discussion on How Habitat Conservation Planning Can Support Strong Landscape-Level Invasive Plant Management in the Future
Photo: Drew Kerr
HCP Session 2. The Future of Habitat Conservation Planning in California
- Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs).
Karin Cleary-Rose, Chief, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Trends in preparing and implementing Natural Community Conservation Plans – challenges and opportunities.
Monica Parisi, California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Regional Advance Mitigation Planning.
Stuart Kirkham, Caltrans Headquarters, Division of Environmental Analysis, Office of Biological Studies - Integrated Regional Conservation and Development Program.
Dennis Grossman, California Strategic Growth Council
Session 3. Drones and Phones: New Tools for Invasive Plant Management.
- How the U.S. Department of the Interior is using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for conservation.
Bruce Quirk, US Geological Survey - Aerial spraying with UAVs for wildland weed control: Applications and potential deployment.
Ken Giles, UC Davis - iMapInvasives: Collaborative invasive species data management.
Jami Kuzek, Arizona Game & Fish Dept. - How land managers are using Calflora’s Weed Manager system.
Ed King, Placer County Department of Agriculture; Cynthia Powell, Calflora, and Pete Frye, Marin Co. Open Space District
Session 4. Invasive Plant Research I
- Herbivores as mediators of an exotic grass invasion.
Cody Ender, Sonoma State University - Biology and control of Sesbania punicea seed banks by solarization.
Robin Hunter, University of San Francisco - Santa Rosa Plateau Habitat Studies and Restoration Program: Integrating research and environmental education to restore native California grasslands.
Justin Valliere, UC Riverside - Effects of altered precipitation and invasion on ecosystem processes in coastal sage scrub.
Ellen Esch, UC San Diego
Session 5. Invasive Plant Management
- Finding weeds while avoiding bombs: Controlling invasive species on Fort Ord National Monument.
Sue Hubbard, Bureau of Land Management - Barbed goatgrass (Aegilops triuncialis) eradication on Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, Detachment Fallbrook; adaptive management for invasive plant eradication.
Dawn Lawson, SPAWARSYSCEN Pacific - Barbed goatgrass strategies and results for the 2014/15 treatment season.
Pamela Beitz, East Bay Regional Parks District - Brachypodium distachyon: An adaptive approach to controlling an invasive species to benefit endemic species and sensitive habitats in San Diego, California.
Patricia Gordon-Reedy, Conservation Biology Institute
Session 6. Discussion Panel: How Habitat Conservation Planning Can Support Strong Landscape-Level Invasive Plant Management in the Future
Session 7. Wildland Weeds of Alta and Baja California Deserts
- Current status on the study of exotic plant species in the State of Baja California, México.
José Delgadillo- Rodríguez, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California - Some drivers of Sahara mustard invasion: Surficial geology and primary, secondary, and tertiary roads.
Kristin Berry, US Geological Survey - Cryptic invasion and hybridization of Phragmites australis (common reed) in the Southwest.
Adam Lambert, UC Santa Barbara - Nonnative grassland control and Otay tarplant (Deinandra conjugens) habitat restoration.
Jessie Vinje, Conservation Biology Institute
Session 8. Building Conservation Corps into Invasive Plant Management Projects
- Doing more for less: Using Conservation Corps as an organizational capacity multiplier.
Kyle Gunderman, American Conservation Experience - River Partners and the Conservation Corps – a win-win partnership for job creation, invasive species removal, and habitat restoration.
Andrew Rayburn, River Partners - The perfect partnership! Engage & train urban youth, garner additional funding, get the job done.
Panel: Kyle Gunderman, ACE; Leah Healy, Urban Corps of San Diego Co.; Robert Skillman, Los Angeles Conservation Corps; Rhody Soria, California Conservation Corps
Session 9. Discussion Groups
- Invasive plant management Q&A.
- Using non-native species in restoration.
- WHIPPET prioritization tool – a demonstration.
- Putting smartphones to work for invasive plant management.
- Working effectively with Conservation Corps.
Session 10. Strategies for Eradication Success
- Eradication 101.
John Knapp, The Nature Conservancy - Invasive species eradication projects implemented on islands in Baja California.
Luciana Luna-Mendoza, Conservación de Islas - Prioritizing Miconia calvescens survey areas on O‘ahu.
Julia Parish, Catalina Island Conservancy - Taking the leap: Starting watershed-wide Arundo donax eradication in Santa Barbara County.
Katrina Olthof, Wildlands Conservation Science
Session 11. Invasive Plant Research II
- Root trait variation and its relevance to seedling growth across 18 native and invasive coastal sage scrub species exposed to drought.
Julie Larson, Chapman University - Effects of plant invasions on invertebrate diversity and feeding guilds: A meta-analysis and review.
Denise Knapp, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden - Current research at the European Biological Control Laboratory.
Lincoln Smith, USDA Agricultural Research Service - Selective control of velvet grass in a California coastal prairie.
Lewis Reed, UC Davis Bodega Marine Reserve
Session 12. The Future of Invasive Plant Management
- Weed Alerts and CDFA Update.
Dean Kelch, California Dept. of Food and Agriculture
Projecting the Future of Invasive Plant Management
- The future of invasive species research.
Jennifer Funk, Chapman University - The future of invasive plant management tools and techniques.
Morgan Ball, Wildlands Conservation Science - The future of collaboration.
Luciana Luna-Mendoza, Conservación de Islas - The future of invasive plant management goals and successes.
John Randall, The Nature Conservancy
Panel discussion and audience questions
Posters
- Integrated management project of mesquite in Oman.
Saud Al Farsi, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, Sultanate of Oman - Resisting re-establishment of invasive plant species in fuels-reduction areas.
Joseph Algiers, Jr., National Park Service - Susceptibility of invasive blackberry species to rust disease by Phragmidium violaceum in Oregon.
William L. Bruckart, III, USDA-Agricultural Research Service - Eradicating weeds in Sierra meadows for climate change resilience. Elizabeth Brusati, Cal-IPC
- A plant risk evaluation (PRE) tool for assessing the invasive potential of ornamental plants. Christopher Crawford, Sustainable Conservation
- Phenological and population responses of the invasive pioneer tree, Bellucia pentamera (Melastomataceae) to selective logging disturbance at Gunung Palung National Park, Indonesia.
Christopher Dillis, UC Davis - The interaction of nitrogen and topography on the physiology of Stipa pulchra.
Robert Fitch, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona - The effects of nitrogen deposition and plant invasion on litter decomposition.
Eliza Hernández, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona - Multi-benefit weed control: the San Joaquin River Invasive Species Management and Jobs Creation Project.
Jeff Holt, River Partners - Assessing spatio-temporal changes of invasive Algerian sea lavender (Limonium ramosissimum) in San Francisco Bay wetlands.
Kerstin Kalchmayr, San Francisco State University - Rapid root responses of native and invasive California plants exposed to a post-drought precipitation pulse.
Joanne Kim, Chapman University - Seedbank-mediated coexistence of invasive annual grasses and native annual forbs under a changing climate.
Marina LaForgia, UC Davis - GrassApp, a tool that helps landowners facing grass invasion.
Dorothy Y. Maguire, Boise State University and USDA-Agricultural Research Service - Livestock grazing and landscape diversity in California vernal pools. Julia Michaels, UC Davis
- Chemically cleaning your boots: The use of disinfectants to reduce the dispersal of invasive weed seeds.
Christopher McDonald, UC Cooperative Extension - Identifying emerging invasive plants for early eradication on the San Mateo County coast.
Dana Morawitz, Cal-IPC - Do native and invasive species share similar carbon capture strategies?
Monica Nguyen, Chapman University - Pre-release impact assessment of the leaf-mining moth (Digitivalva delaireae), a potential biological control agent for Cape-ivy (Delairea odorata).
Angelica M. Reddy, USDA-Agricultural Research Service - Soil-mediated impacts of the invasive grass Ehrharta erecta on a forest understory community.
Annika Rose-Person, UC Santa Cruz - Ecological and economic implications of invasive giant reed (Arundo donax) control for the Santa Clara River watershed.
Marc Steele, UC Santa Barbara - Results of velvetgrass (Holcus lanatus) control in the Kern Canyon wilderness of Sequoia National Park.
Rich Thiel, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks - Successful habitat restoration of a native thistle following jubata grass control.
Don Thomas, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission - Importance of effective public outreach for invasive vegetation removal projects in the Santa Ana River floodplain, Riverside County, CA.
Melissa Tu, Atkins North America
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