National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations-2009

Abstract

These proceedings are a compilation of 20 papers that were presented at the regional meetings of the Intertribal Nursery Council and the forest and conservation nursery associations in the United States in 2009. The Intertribal Nursery Council Meeting was held at the Best Western University Inn in Moscow, Idaho, on July 14, 2009. Subject matter for the technical sessions included resource protection, collaborative research efforts, cultural use of native species, and native species programs. The Joint Meeting of the Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association and Intermountain Container Seedling Growers' Association was held at the Best Western University Inn in Moscow, Idaho, on July 15 to 16, 2009, and was hosted by the University of Idaho Pitkin Forest Nursery. Subject matter for the technical sessions included seedling nutrition, pest management, nursery research and new technology, and general nursery topics. Afternoon field trips included tours of the University of Idaho Pitkin Forest Nursery, Decagon Devices in Pullman, Washington, and Washington State University Organic Farm and Composting Facility. The Northeastern Forest and Conservation Nursery Association meeting was held at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on July 20 to 23, 2009, and was hosted by Engel's Nursery Incorporated. Subject matter for the technical sessions included tree improvement programs, nursery culture and management, fumigation updates, and insect and disease management. Field trips included afternoon tours of the Brooks Lodge and Kellogg Forest in Augusta, Michigan, Van's Pines Greenhouses in West Olive, Michigan, and Engel's Nursery in Fennville, Michigan.

Titles contained within National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations-2009

• Protecting black ash from the emerald ash borer
• Establishing, conducting, and maintaining mutually beneficial, collaborative research efforts with tribes
• An introduction to the Colorado Plateau Native Plant Initiative
• Green gold: The potential and pitfalls for North American medicinal plants in the US botanical supplements industry
• When Smokey says "No": Fire-less methods for growing plants adapted to cultural fire regimes
• Influence of mineral nutrition on susceptibility and recovery of planted seedlings of ungulate browse
• Detection and control of Fusarium oxysporum and Cylindrocarpon destructans in forest nursery soils
• Protocols for sagebrush seed processing and seedling production at the Lucky Peak Nursery
• Strategies and challenges for nursery production: Perspectives on where we're going and where we've been
• Equilibrium relative humidity as a tool to monitor seed moisture
• Effect of organic amendments on Douglas-fir transplants grown in fumigated versus non-fumigated soil
• Sulfometuron methyl: Its use in forestry and potential phytotoxicity
• Forest tree improvement at Michigan State University: Past, present, and future
• Determining irrigation distribution uniformity and efficiency for nurseries
• An overview of forestry in the Farm Bill and Natural Resources Conservation Service forestry resources
• Effects of pine sawdust, hardwood sawdust, and peat on bareroot soil properties
• The forests of Michigan-from ice to axe to growth
• Soil fumigants-risk mitigation measures for reregistration
• Mosaic Stunting in jack pine seedlings in a northern Michigan bareroot nursery
• Management of white grubs in forest nurseries

Citation

Riley, L. E.; Pinto, J. R.; Dumroese, R. K., tech. cords. 2010. National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations-2009. Proc. RMRS-P-62. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 101 p.