November 16th – 17th 2015 in Denver, Colorado
- Partner Meeting: Partners in Community Forestry, Arbor Day Foundation
- 2015 Final Meeting Summary (PDF, June 2017)
- Download the 2015 Continental Dialogue Meeting Save the Date (PDF, issued March 2015)
- Review the Final Continental Dialogue Agenda (PDF, November 2015)
- Review poster abstracts
Thank you to all who joined us in November!
Archive of Presentations:
November 16th:
Keynote- Troy Timmons, Deputy Director of Operations and Strategic Planning, Western Governors’ Association
Welcome and Update on Forest Health Protection in Colorado – Dan West, Colorado State Forest Service Entomologist
Overview of the Continental Dialogue and update on progress on initiatives over the last year – Bill Toomey, Forest Health Protection Program Director, The Nature Conservancy
USFS Forest Health Protection Program Updates- Monica Lear, Forest Health Protection Director, USFS
Perspectives from the US Conference of Mayors and Emerald Ash Borer on Denver’s Doorstep – Scott Gilmore, Executive Deputy Director of Parks and Planning and Rob Davis, Denver City Forester
Current and Future Forest Health Concerns – Stacy Scott, National Operations Manager, Pest Management Programs, USDA APHIS
Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities App – Chuck Bargeron Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health, with Dr. Rich Hallett, USFS NYC Urban Field Station
Recent Research and Developments with Thousand Cankers Disease –Jane Stewart, Colorado State University
Positioning Invasive Species Management for Greatly Increased Funding in the Next Farm Bill – Scott Cameron, Reduce Risks from Invasive Species Coalition
Industry Partnership in Pest Prevention: Systems Approach to Nursery Certification (SANC) – Craig Regelbrugge, Vice President Government Relations, AmericanHort
National Plant Board Update – Piera Siegert, National Plant Board Representative and New Hampshire State Entomologist
National Association of State Foresters Forest Health Update – Robert Simpson, NASF Representative and CEO of GreenWoodGlobal Consulting
Targeting and Monitoring Programs at Western and Interior Ports – Kevin Harriger, US Customs and Border Protection
Invasive Forest Pests from the Intermountain West Perspective – Amy Gannon, Forest Pest Management Program Manager for the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation
City of Boulder: EAB, TCD, Drippy Blight, and EPIC – Kathleen Alexander, City Forester for Boulder CO
Colorado’s EAB response and biocontrol release updates – John Kaltenbach, Biological Control Specialist, Colorado Department of Agriculture
November 17th:
Firewood Outreach Perspectives – Leigh Greenwood, Forest Health Protection Program, The Nature Conservancy
Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities Initiative– Rachel Holmes, Forest Health Protection Program, The Nature Conservancy
Results of Analysis of Recreation Databases– Frank Koch, Research Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station
Changing the movement of firewood by campers – Leigh Greenwood, Forest Health Protection Program, The Nature Conservancy with research findings from Andrea Diss-Torrance, Invasive Forest Insects Program Coordinator, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Update on Firewood certification from industry and regulators – Geoff Friedman, Lost Coast Forest Products
Embedding citizen science into K-12 curricula: Empowering youth to help manage the urban forest ecosystem – Samuel Severance, University of Colorado Boulder
Hungry Pests Campaign – Abbey Powell, National Outreach Campaign Manager, USDA APHIS
Plant Heroes’ Plant Mapping Platform – Dan Stern, American Public Gardens Association
Integrating the i-Tree Software Suite with NGSS Standards-based lesson plans in the classroom – Jessica Sanders, Casey Trees & Arielle Conti, The Davey Institute
Progress and Policy Update regarding Coalition Against Forest Pests – Faith Campbell, Vice President Center for Invasive Species Prevention
Institutional Considerations in Deploying Bio-control for Tamarisk in Colorado – Dan Bean, Director of Biological Pest Control at the Colorado Department of Agriculture
Policy Approaches for Forest Ecosystems– Gary Lovett, Senior Scientist Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Western Governors’ Association – Troy Timmons, Deputy Director of Operations and Strategic Planning, Western Governors’ Association
National Invasive Species Council Policy Initiatives– Stas Burgiel, Assistant Director for Protection and Budgetary Coordination, National Invasive Species Council