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The 64th Annual

North Central Forest Pest Workshop

21-24 September 2015

Menominee Casino Resort and Convention Center

Menominee Indian Reservation (Keshena, Wisconsin)

“Reconnecting Silviculture and Forest Health”

Floral appliqué art form common among Woodland Indians

of the Great Lakes region and the Mississippi Valley

Linda Williams, NCFPW Chair David Mausel, Local Arrangements

Toby Petrice, Treasurer Linda Haugen, Historian

David Mausel and Linda Williams, Program Chairs

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64th NCFPW Program Summary

Day/Time Goings-on Location Monday, 21 Sept. 2:00 - 3:30 PM Fungal foray Depart from Great Bear Sculpture 4:00 PM - onwards Room check-in Hotel registration desk 4:00 - 5:30 PM Workshop registration Great Bear Sculpture 5:30 - 6:30 PM Meet and Greet Great Bear Sculpture 6:30 - 7:30 PM Poster set-up Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4 Tuesday, 22 Sept. 7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4 7:30 AM - onwards Workshop registration Great Bear Sculpture 8:00 - 8:40 AM Opening ceremonies Five Clans Ballroom 1 & 2 8:40 - 12:00 PM Management/research session Five Clans Ballroom 1 & 2 12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4 1:00 - 2:00 PM Heterobasidion root disease session Five Clans Ballroom 1 & 2 2:00 - 4:15 PM Graduate student research session Five Clans Ballroom 1 & 2 4:30 - 6:00 PM Fun run/walk Meet at Norton Rd. (see below) 6:30 PM - onwards Dinner and cash bar Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4 7:00 PM Five Clan Drum and Hoop dancers Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4 Wednesday, 23 Sept. 7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4 7:30 - 8:00 AM Workshop registration Great Bear Sculpture 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Bus and walking tour of Menominee forest Depart from Great Bear Sculpture 5:30 - 6:30 PM NCFPW business meeting Five Clans Ballroom 1 & 2 6:30 PM - onwards Dinner and cash bar Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4 7:00 PM Raptor Education Group, Inc. speaker Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4 7:30 - 8:30 PM Poster session Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4 Thursday, 24 Sept. 7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4 7:30 AM - onwards Workshop registration Great Bear Sculpture 8:00 - 10:30 AM Management session Five Clans Ballroom 1 & 2 10:30 - 11:30 AM State and province forest health reports Five Clans Ballroom 1 & 2 11:30 - 12:00 PM Closing ceremonies Five Clans Ballroom 1 & 2

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64th NCFPW Agenda

Monday, Sept 21

2:00 - 3:30 PM Fungal Foray at College of Menominee Nation (Depart from Great Bear Sculpture).

Organizer: Dave Mausel Ph.D. (MTE), Local experts: Jeff Grignon (MTE); Dana Richter

(Michigan Tech).

4:00 onwards Check-in at Menominee Casino Resort or hotels in Shawano (Comfort Inn and Suites or

Settle Inn and Suites)

4:00 - 5:30 Workshop registration (Great Bear Sculpture) (Organizers: Rebecca Gray and Mark

Guthmiller, WI DNR).

5:30 - 6:30 Meet and greet (Great Bear Sculpture) Hors D’oeuvres served

6:30 - 7:30 Poster set-up (Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4)

Dinner on your own, restaurant suggestions (Keshena: War Bonnet. Casino: Forest Island. Shawano:

Luigie’s, Farm Inn)

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Tuesday, Sept 22

7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast (Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4).

7:30 - onwards Workshop Registration (Great Bear Sculpture) (Organizers: Rebecca Gray and Mark

Guthmiller, WI DNR)

Tuesday morning, Sept 22

Opening session (Five Clans Ballroom 1 & 2)

8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Moderator: Dave L. Mausel Ph.D., Menominee Tribal Enterprises (MTE)

8:00 - 8:30 Invocation: Joey Awonohopay Posting of colors: Veterans of the Menominee Nation Drum group: Five Clan Welcome: Gary Besaw, Chairman, Menominee Tribal Legislature Welcome: Norman Shawanokasic, President, CEO, COO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Menominee Tribal Enterprises

Opening keynote presentation

8:30 - 8:40 The Menominee view of sustained yield forest management

Marshall Pecore, Forest Manager, Menominee Tribal Enterprises

Management session

8:40 - 9:00 Timber sale cutting restrictions

Linda Williams, Forest Health Specialist, Wisconsin DNR

9:00 - 9:20 Ash stands - A checklist for making management decisions

Greg Edge, Silviculture Specialist, Wisconsin DNR

9:20 - 9:40 Timberland management in the wake of beech bark disease in the eastern Upper

Peninsula

Dave Fehringer, Associate Regional Director, Great Lakes Region, Forestland Group

9:40 - 10:00 The FSC Pesticide Program – Foundations & Recent Updates

Dave Chaffin, Director of Business Development, Forest Stewardship Council

10:00 - 10:30 Break, Light Snacks, and Poster Viewing (Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4).

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Research session

10:30 - 11:00 Non-stationarity of European gypsy moth introduction pathways: A nationwide spatial risk model Gericke Cook, Geographer, USDA-APHIS

11:00 - 11:30 Chemicals and sounds mediate attack behavior of the bark beetle Dendroctonus

valens and its relationship with a natural enemy Clerus sp.

Dr. Zhudong Liu, Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences

11:30 - 12:00 Accessing how climate change will impact defoliators in the southern boreal forest

Ken Raffa Ph.D., Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4)

Tuesday afternoon, Sept 22

Heterbasidion root disease session (Five Clans Ballroom 1 & 2)

Moderator: Linda Haugen, USDA Forest Service

1:00 - 1:25 A bit of Heterobasidion root disease history and biology

Glen Stanosz Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin, Professor

1:25 - 1:40 Biological control of Heterobasidion root disease

John McLaughlin Ph.D., Forest Pathologist, BioForest

1:40 - 1:50 Heterobasidion root disease in Minnesota

Brian Schwingle, Forest Health Specialist, Minnesota DNR

1:50 - 2:00 Heterobasidion root disease in Michigan

Roger Mech, Forest Health Specialist, Michigan DNR

Graduate student research session (Five Clans Ballroom 1 & 2)

Moderator: Andrea Diss-Torrance, Wisconsin DNR

2:00 - 2:15 Phenological shifts in trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) one year after defoliation

by the forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma distria)

Michael Falk, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jack Donaldson, Living Biography;

Michael T. Stevens, Utah Valley University; Kenneth Raffa and Richard L. Lindroth,

University of Wisconsin-Madison

2:15 - 2:30 Out cold: Overwintering mortality of gypsy moth egg masses due to cold exposure

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Marissa Streifel, University of Minnesota; Patrick Tobin, University of Washington; Brian

Aukema, University of Minnesota

2:30 - 2:45 Conifer species influence saprophytic activity of Heterobasidion irregulare on root

wood in soil-block decay tests

Katie Ohno and Glen Stanosz, University of Wisconsin, Madison

2:45 - 3:00 Seasonal and regional distribution of nitidulid vectors of oak wilt

Stephanie Jagemann and Kenneth Raffa, University of Wisconsin-Madison

3:00 - 3:30 Break, Light Snacks, and Poster Viewing (Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4).

3:30 - 3:45 Bacterial communities associated with the red turpentine beetle and their potential

functions

Michael Howe and Kenneth Raffa, University of Wisconsin-Madison

3:45 - 4:00 Walnut at risk: Examining reproduction between potential hosts of the walnut twig

beetle in the USA

Andrea Hefty, Brian Aukema, University of Minnesota; Steven Seybold, USDA - Forest

Service; Mark Coggeshall, University of Missouri; James McKenna and Robert Venette

USDA - Forest Service

4:00 - 4:15 The dispersal capacity of late instar gypsy moth larvae: Implications for mitigation

measures in wood product movement Rachael Nicoll, University of Minnesota; Scott

Myers, USDA-APHIS; Brian Aukema, University of Minnesota

4:30 - 6:00 Fun run/walk (Coordinator Mike Hillstrom Wisconsin DNR, meet at Norton Rd. starting

point, See handout for directions)

6:30 Dinner and cash bar (Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4)

7:00 Five Clan Drum and Hoop Dancers (Menominee Tribal School students)

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Wednesday, Sept 23

7:00 – 8:00 am Breakfast (Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4).

7:30 - 8:00 Workshop Registration (Great Bear Sculpture) (Organizers: Rebecca Gray and Mark

Guthmiller, WI DNR)

Wednesday, Sept 23

Bus and Walking Tour the Menominee Forest

8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Coordinators: Dave L. Mausel Ph.D., Derrick White, Leon Fowler (MTE)

Moderators: Rebecca Gray and Linda Williams (Wisconsin DNR)

Arrival/departure Topic Speaker 8:30 AM Depart

8:45 - 10:00 AM Stop 1: West Branch Rd. 9:00 - 9:30 AM Forest management overview Tony Waupochick and Marshall Pecore (MTE) 9:30 - 9:45 AM EAB and BBD Silvi. modifications Dave Mausel (MTE)

10:15 - 11:40 AM Stop 2: Rice Bed Rd. 10:30 - 10:40 AM Coffee and mensuration contest 10:40 - 10:50 AM Use of fire on the Menominee Benny Bowman and Ron Waukau (MTE) 10:50 - 11:15 AM White pine management Tony Waupochick and Jeff Grignon (MTE) 11:15 - 11:20 AM White pine weevil studies Marshall Pecore (MTE) 11:20 - 11:25 AM Group Photo Linda Haugen (USFS)

12:00 - 1:45 PM Stop 3: Keshena, Wi 12:15 - 12:45 PM Box lunch

12:45 - 1:30 PM Logging/cultural museum and Jean Cox (MITW - Historic preservation) Ash basket making demo.

2:00 - 2:15 PM Stop 4: Neopit, WI MTE sawmill drive-by Marshall Pecore and Pershing Frechette (MTE)

2:30 - 3:35 PM Stop 5: Oshkosh Rd. 2:45 - 3:15 PM Oak wilt control and restoration John Lampereur (USFS) and Dave Mausel (MTE) 3:15 - 3:25 PM Climate change adaptation Jeff Grignon and Tony Waupochick (MTE) 3:25 - 3:35 PM Snacks and walk to stop 6 3:45 - 4:00 PM Stop 6: Camp 26 Rd. 3:50 - 4:15 PM DED tolerant American elm Linda Haugen (USFS) and Linda Williams, 5:00 PM Return to Convention Center

5:30 - 6:30 PM NCFPW Business Meeting (Five Clans Ballroom 1 & 2)

6:30 - onwards Dinner and Cash Bar (Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4)

7:00 pm Raptor Education Group, Inc speaker (Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4)

7:30 - 8:30 PM Poster session (Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4)

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Thursday, Sept 24

7:00 – 8:00 AM Breakfast (Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4)

7:30 - onwards Workshop Registration (Great Bear Sculpture) (Organizers: Rebecca Gray and Mark

Guthmiller, WI DNR)

Thursday morning, Sept 24

Management sesion (Five Clans Ballroom 1 & 2)

Moderator: Dr. Jen Youngblood, USDA Forest Service

8:00 – 8:30 Managing forest regeneration and development after a large-scale wind disturbance

Paul Crocker, GIS and Inventory Forester, MTE

8:30 - 9:00 Changing movement of firewood by campers: an eight year study of regulation and education Andrea Diss-Torrance, Kim Peterson, Colleen Robinson Klug, Wisconsin DNR

9:00 – 9:30 White-tailed deer management on the Menominee Indian Reservation, Wisconsin

Don Reiter, Wildlife Biologist, Menominee Indian Tribe

9:30 – 10:00 Rapid white oak mortality (RWOM) in Missouri and the current management response

Sharon Reed Ph.D., Research Scientist, University of Missouri.

10:00 – 10:30 Break, light snacks, and poster viewing (Five Clans Ballroom 3 & 4)

State and Province forest health reports (Five Clans Ballroom 1 & 2)

Moderator: Michael Hillstrom, Wisconsin DNR

10:30 – 11:30 Wisconsin: Becky Gray, DNR

Minnesota: Val Cervenka, DNR

Michigan: Roger Mech, DNR

Indiana: Phil Marshall, DNR

Missouri: Sharon Reed, University of Missouri

Ontario: Richard Wilson, Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

Not present: Illinois (Handout), Iowa (Handout), Manitoba

11:30 - 12:00 Closing Comments:

2016 NCFPW Plans and Adjourn.

Retire colors: Veterans of the Menominee Nation Drum group: Five Clans

Lunch is on your own (Keshena: War Bonnet. Casino: Forest Island. Shawano: Luigie’s, Farm Inn)

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2015 NCFPW Posters

(Organizer: David Mausel, MTE)

1. Christine K. McTavish, Dennis W. Fulbright and Andrew M. Jarosz. Michigan State

University. Phomopsis associated with spruce decline: Virulence studies on six spruce

species.

2. Oren Hill-Sackatook. College of Menominee Nation. Mycorrhizal Fungi & Their Symbiotic

Relationships.

3. Dana Richter. Michigan Tech. Wood decay by Chlorociboria aeruginascens.

4. Luke Besaw. Tribal member/student. Invasive species on the Menominee reservation.

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Waewaenen, Miigwech, Thank-you, Mvto, Gracias!

2015 meeting committee Co-chair: Linda Williams, Wisconsin DNR Co-chair: David L. Mausel, MTE Andrea Diss-Torrance, Wisconsin DNR Renee Pinski, Wisconsin DATCP Mike Hillstrom, Wisconsin DNR Linda Haugen, USDA Forest Service Mark Guthmiller, Wisconsin DNR Paul Cigan, Wisconsin DNR Rebecca Gray, Wisconsin DNR Toby Petrice, USDA Forest Service

NCFPW Board of Representatives Chair: Linda Williams, Wisconsin DNR Treasurer: Toby Petrice, USDA Forest Service Historian: Linda Haugen, USDA Forest Service Member at Large: Fiona Ross, Manitoba Conservation Member at Large: Sara Tanis, Michigan State University Member at Large: David L. Mausel, MTE Member at Large: Robbie Doerhoff, Missouri Dept. of Conservation Member at Large: Richard Wilson, Ontario Ministry of Nat. Res. Member at Large: Holly Petrillo, University of WI-Stevens Point Member at Large: Brian Schwingle, Minnesota DNR Member at Large: Roger Mech, Michigan DNR

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Notes