PNW Forest Vegetation Management Conference
The PNW FVMC was modeled on the successful Forest Vegetation Management Conference held each winter in Northern California. With support from Oregon Forest Resources Institute (OFRI), WFCA designed the conference as an annual event that meets the educational needs of foresters, landowners, and applicators in the Pacific Northwest.
The conference provides an ongoing and reliable source of continuing education on the safe and effective use of chemicals for the management of PNW forests. It remains critical for professional forest managers to be current on both protecting the public and the environment from adverse effects while helping to maintain the availability of forest chemicals for beneficial uses.
Each year includes presentations and panel discussions by practicing foresters, applicators, academics, and chemical company representatives. Interaction with exhibitors and vendors is also a significant part of this conference. Pesticide recertification credits are available for Washington, Oregon, and Idaho applicators.
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Previous Years' Event Information
| Topic | Speaker | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Soil Survey Information and Pesticide Risk Assessment Tools for Forest Vegetation Management | Steve Campbell | 2024 |
| Letís Grow Some Trees: Different Methods of Application and Expected Results | James Carr | 2024 |
| Affordable Solutions for Herbaceous Weeds | Branden Sirguy | 2024 |
| Talking Pesticides; Regulation and Conversation | Seth Barnes | 2024 |
| Evaluating Alternatives to Herbicide and the Efficacy of Glyphosate and Oust for Vegetation Management and Seedling Performance in the Pacific Northwest | Emily Von Blon | 2024 |
| Influence of Forestry Herbicide Applications on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ñ Results from a 12-year Experiment in the Oregon Coast Range | Jake Verschuyl | 2024 |
| Effective Forest Roadside and Noxious Weed Prescriptions | George Severson | 2024 |
| Impacts of 5 Years of Vegetation Control and Harvest Removals on Long-Term Soil Nutrition and Fertilization At Fall River | Kim Littke | 2024 |
| Post-fire Reforestation across the West: Turning Need into Demand through Planning, Strategy Development, and Financing Opportunities | Brian Morris | 2024 |
| Reforestation after Fire on the West Side: Assessing Silvicultural Options | Max Wightman | 2024 |
| Notification System (FERNS) for Helicopter Spray Application of Pesticides & Updates | Margaret Miller | 2024 |
| EPAís Vulnerable Species Pilot: Updates and Impacts for Commercial Forestry in Oregon | Dani Lightle | 2024 |
| Bilingual Pesticide Labels for Reforestation Worker Safety | Pablo Palmandez | 2024 |
| Noxious and Invasive Plant Identification in Forests | Jennifer Mendoza | 2024 |
| Optimizing Forest Management: Machine Learning and Drone Spraying Innovations | Jake Ferrigan | 2024 |
| Using AM as a climate adaptation method during reforestation, discussion of experimental network | Rob Slesak | 2023 |
| Seed Selection Methods and Tools for AM | Holly Prendeville | 2023 |
| Long-term Common Garden Trial Results and Implications for Assisted Migration | Beth Roskilly | 2023 |
| Reforestation Case Studies Library | Laura Gonzalez Mantecon | 2023 |
| Assisted Migration Reforestation Practitioner Survey Results & Discussion | Michelle Agne | 2023 |
| Adaptive Forest Restoration at Stossel Creek | Rowan Braybrook | 2023 |
| The use and results of herbicide Esplanade F in PNW forest sites | Jerry Ellis & Harry Quicke | 2023 |
| Soils donít Matter in Reforestation, Right? | Ron Reuter | 2023 |
| Understanding the competitiveness of forbs, shrubs, and their interaction with conifer seedlings | Max Wightman | 2023 |
| Exploring new tools in vegetation management | Jerome Otto & Warren Gawlik | 2023 |
| Oregon State University Vegetation Management Research Co-op | Carlos Gonzalez-Benecke & Emily von Blon | 2023 |
| Bilingual Pesticide Labels for Reforestation Worker Safety | Pablo Palmandez & Marcy Harrington | 2023 |
| Policy and perception issues impacting forest management and ways to engage effectively | Katie Murray & Sara Duncan | 2023 |
| Oregon Department of Agriculture: pesticide updates | Andrea Sonnen | 2023 |
| Machine Learning and Unmanned Aerial Systems in Forestry | Jake Ferrigan | 2023 |
| Do label approved uses of herbicides adversely affect soil health? | Allan Felsot | 2023 |
| When private forestry and housing development become neighbors | Jeff Kline | 2023 |
| Foresters Panel: Vegetation management experiences after wildfires | 2023 | |
| Seven Years of Vegetation Management Research: Lessons Learned | Max Wightman | 2022 |
| Oregon and Washington Pesticide Laws and Rule Changes | Katie Murray and Ben Buchholz | 2022 |
| Efficient Establishment: Stopping weeds before they emerge | Harry Quicke | 2022 |
| The Ins and Outs of a Well-Written Reforestation Contract | Zak Thomas | 2022 |
| Pesticide Handing Safety and Update on PPE | Debbie Page-Dumroese | 2022 |
| Vegetation Management Co-op Research Updates | Carlos Gonzalez | 2022 |
| Applied Practices for Reforestation Under Changing Climate and Forest Conditions | Robert Slesak | 2022 |
| Cowboy Science: What you see is not what you get | Diane Haase | 2022 |
| OR Pesticide Rule Enforcement Activities, PPE and Handling Safety | Andrea Sonnen | 2022 |
| A Billion Trees in the Ground: The REPLANT Act is Here | Kas Dumroese | 2022 |
| Vegetation Management after Forest Wildfires | Jerome Otto | 2022 |
| Glyphostate Environmental Chemistry and Exposure Assessment | Allan Felsot | 2022 |
| MAX SDI: Understanding Site and Species Limitations and Carrying Capacity | Mark Kimsey | 2022 |
| Using Drones for Applied Reforestation | Miles Micheletti | 2022 |
| Update on the Private Forest Accord and the Oregon Forest Practices Act | Seth Barnes | 2022 |
| Forest Restoration from a Seedling's Perspective | Steve Grossnickle | 2021 |
| Zone Matcher: A new web application for climate-based seed deployment in the Pacific Northwest | Glenn Howe | 2021 |
| Aerial Spray Projects from Helicopters and Drones | Corey Fransen | 2021 |
| Bayer Update: Current research and results with Esplanade F on PNW forest sites | Harry Quicke | 2021 |
| PPE requirements and safe handling for forest herbicides and review of updated EPA regulations on aerial applications near neighbors and workers | Wendy Wheeler | 2021 |
| Documenting Experience with Seed Source Movement: Establishing citizen science demonstration plots for PNW field foresters | Jeff DeBell and Peter Goulde | 2021 |
| Managing Aerial Spraying Projects on Private Timberlands | John Jayne | 2021 |
| New Spray Buffer and Aerial Application Rules: Federal and State | Seth Barnes and Heather Hansen | 2021 |
| Application Rules Update and Examples of Pesticide Violations | Andrea Sonnen | 2021 |
| Setting up Roadside Spray Projects | Harrison Hapgood | 2021 |
| Fields to Forests: Discussing the interaction between nursery practices, stock types, and young stand management | Brian Morris | 2021 |
| The Physiological Effects of Herbicides Within Plants | Allan Felsot | 2021 |
| Corveta Agriscience Update: Product updates and research activities | Rob LaGrange and Will Hatler | 2021 |
| Some Things Just Never Go Away: Forest pest legacies after harvest and plantation establishment | David Shaw | 2021 |
| Human and Environmental Toxicology of Pesticide Formulations and Spray Adjuvants | Allan Felsot | 2020 |
| Elk Hoof Disease Research at WSU on Treponema and Forest Vegetation Needs for Large Forest Ungulates | Margaret Wild and Kyle Garrison | 2020 |
| Water Use and Competitiveness of Senecio sylvaticus in Young Pseudotsuga menziesii Plantations in Western Oregon | Carlos Gonzalez-Benecke | 2020 |
| Interactive Effects of Stock Size and Vegetation Management Treatments on Douglas-fir Plantation Productivity | Maxwell Wightman | 2020 |
| Noxious Weed Control: Identification, IVM control methods, communicating with a skeptical public | Dana Coggon | 2020 |
| Herbicide Tank Mixtures and Toxicology | Vickie Tatum | 2020 |
| Noxious and Invasive Weed Identification and Mapping | Wyatt Williams | 2020 |
| The Art of Measuring Pesticides and an Update on PPE Requirements | Carol Black | 2020 |
| Personal Protective Equipment for Dermal Protection in Forestry | Carol Black | 2019 |
| Sustaining Site Productivity: Lessons learned from 25 years of the North American Long-Term Soil Productivity Experiment | Debbie Dumroese | 2019 |
| Everything You Have Always Wanted to Know About Using Mastication for Site Prep | Terrie Jain | 2019 |
| The State of Fear and How it Affects your Ability to Grow Trees | Heather Hansen | 2019 |
| One Landowner is Thinning While the Adjoining Landowner is not: Which one is losing money? | Greg Latta | 2019 |
| Does a Liability Jury Decision Change the Toxicology of Roundup? | Allan Felsot | 2019 |
| Red Alder Growth Model | Andrew Bluhm | 2019 |
| Herbicide Applications in Lincoln County, OR With an Aerial Spray Ban | Joe Steere and Luke Bergey | 2019 |
| Managing Troublesome Weeds North of the 45th Parallel | Branden Sirguy | 2019 |
| Political Issues in Oregon | Katie Fast | 2019 |
| Forest Vegetation Management Mixes Without Glyphosate in the Inland Empire | Joe Fields | 2019 |
| Forest Vegetation Management Mixes Without Glyphosate in the West Side of the Cascades | Eric Hippler | 2019 |
| Beyond Aerial Applications: Alternative herbicide application methods | Bonnie Covell | 2019 |
| Beyond Averages: Transforming Your Regeneration Plots into Useful Information | Bruce Ripley | 2019 |
| Noxious and Invasive Weeds: Identifying and Reporting | Wyatt Williams | 2019 |
| Results of a PNW Reforestation Cost Survey | Dan Opalach | 2019 |
| Labels, Handling, and PPE Use Rule Updates | Andrea Sonnen | 2019 |
| Why do we Manage Forest Vegetation? | Bruce Kelpsas | 2018 |
| Subscriber Function of the Oregon Department of Forestry E-Notification System | Joe Touchstone | 2018 |
| Effects of Vegetation Management on Biomass Stock of Four Coniferous Species in the Pacific Northwest | Carlos Gonzalez-Benecke | 2018 |
| H2B Visas: What does it take to bring staff in from out of the country? | Sergio Mejia | 2018 |
| The Future of Herbicide use in Forestry? A look at litigation, politics and policy of vegetation management | Katie Fast | 2018 |
| Nutrient Limitations on Intensive Biomass Production in PNW Plantations | Rob Harrison | 2018 |
| Vegetation Control and Minimizing Risks to Non-target Soil Resources | Matt Busse | 2018 |
| The Effects of Organic Matter Removal and Vegetation Control Treatments on Douglas-fir Soil and Site Productivity | Kim Littke | 2018 |
| Silvicultural Herbicides and Their Effects on Water Quality and Aquatic Organisms: An overview | Ashley Coble | 2018 |
| Ecophysiology and Vegetation Management: Understanding Treatment Responses | Maxwell Wightman | 2018 |
| Environmental Fate of Herbicides | George Beck | 2018 |
| Identifying Sensitive Neighbors when Planning a Spray Project | Mark Wall | 2018 |
| Federal Worker Protection Standards for Forestry - What changed in 2017 and 2018? | Carol Black | 2018 |
| How to Manage Drift for Common Forestry Herbicides | Carol Black | 2018 |
| Quantifying Black Bear Damage to Western Conifers | Jimmy Taylor | 2018 |
| History and Current Practices of Herbicide Application | Dan Newton | 2017 |
| The Future of Herbicide Application | Joe Newton | 2017 |
| An Overview of the History of Aerial Forestry Applications in the Pacific Northwest | John Mateski | 2017 |
| New Technologies of Aerial Applications | Rick Krohn | 2017 |
| Maximizing Efficacy and Safety with Droplet Technology | Robert Wolf | 2017 |
| Comperative Responses of Planted Douglas-fir and Associated Vegetation to Logging Debris Retention and Site Preparation Herbicide Treatments | Timothy Harrington | 2017 |
| Spray Adjuvants: The rest of the story | Richard Zollinger | 2017 |
| Investigation of Oregon Pesticide Application Complaints | Mike Odenthal | 2017 |
| Understanding Pesticide Fate for the Protection of Water Resources | Jeffrey Jenkins | 2017 |
| New Chemistry in Forestry | Ed Fredrickson | 2017 |
| Understanding Pesticide Labels | Bruce Alber | 2017 |
| Who is my Neighbor? Minimizing conflicts through communication | Jim Carr | 2017 |
| Worker Protection Standards for Forestry | Kaci Buhl | 2017 |
| Choline Formulation Technology | Bob Stewart | 2017 |
| Policy Issues | Kristina McNitt | 2017 |
| Esplanade F Herbicide - A new tool for pre-emergent control of grasses and broadleaf weeds in western conifer production areas | Kent Pittard | 2017 |
| Human Health Risk Assessment and Glyphosate | Jeffrey Jenkins | 2017 |
| Facilitated Discussion | 2017 |