This Year's Conference- Details – Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation

The 2024 Annual Whitebark Pine Science and Management Conference

October 9th-11th, 2024 in Baker City, Oregon

Regular registration is just $75 & student registration is $40 for this 3-day event. All WPEF members and virtual registrants ($45) can livestream the Thursday sessions.

Online registration is CLOSED, but you can still register at the door for the Wednesday workshops or Thursday Sessions.

Please plan to join us in Baker City, Oregon from October 9th-11th for three days filled with learning and enjoying high-elevation forest ecosystems. New this year, we’ll gather for afternoon workshops on Wednesday, October 9th to expand our knowledge on whitebark restoration treatments and monitoring. On Thursday we will hear the latest research and strategies on whitebark pine genetics, modeling, monitoring, restoration, management activities and updates on whitebark in wilderness. Don’t worry, we always include a few talks for the Clark’s nutcrackers also. On Friday we will stretch our legs among the whitebark pine trees at Anthony Lake Mountain Resort where we will visit whitebark pine restoration projects. Evenings will give us all an opportunity to mingle with old friends and new at the community presentation, silent auction and social. We hope to see you there!

Program Schedule

Wednesday, October 9th, 2024

Churchill School, 3451 Broadway St. Baker City, OR 97814

2024 Conference Agenda

Workshop Schedule

Time	Speaker	Detail
12:00-12:30		Workshop Sign-in
12:30	Glenda Scott, Melissa Jenkins and Mike Giesey	Restoration treatments
2:30	Break
3:00	Erin Shanahan	Monitoring WBP Health
3:45	Cara Nelson	Monitoring Treatment efficacy and effects
4:30	Break
4:45	Cara Nelson	Assessing the efficacy of monitoring designs
5:45	All	Wrap up and reflections
6:00	Dinner break (drive to Baker City)
7:30	Community talk (w/cash bar)
9:00	Wed. Program concludes

Thursday, October 10th, 2024

Churchill School, 3451 Broadway St. Baker City, OR 97814

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Presentation Schedule


7:30-8:00	LATE REGISTRATION
8:00	WELCOME	Conf. Committee and WPEF
8:10-10:05	Early Morning Session
	Richard Sniezko	US Forest Service	Plenary - WPBR resistance overview and updates from Dorena
	Charlie Cartwright	BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and NRO	Early Growth and Rust Resistance in Whitebark Pine Multi-Environment Genecology Trials
	Aaron Liston	Oregon State University	High Throughput Genetic Identification of Whitebark and Limber Pines
	Cara Nelson	University of Montana	WBP monitoring framework
	Vlad Kovalenko	US Fish and Wildlife Service	WBP monitoring
	Kristen Chadwick	US Forest Service	Results of FS R6 WBP permanent plots
10:05	BREAK
10:30-12:00	Late Morning Session
	Lydia Druin	Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem	Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) survival in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Quantifying the long-term effects of mortality sources on a federally threatened species
	Beth Fallon	Mount Rainier National Park, National Park Service	Whitebark pine status and recovery planning in W. WA National Parks
	Hall Cushman	University of Nevada	Influence of climate, wildfire, biotic interactions and land management on mortality and regeneration of whitebark pine in California and Nevada
	Jason Reinhardt	US Forest Service	Building a Whitebark Pine Resilience Network
	Amarina Wuenschel, Sabrina Smits-Glenn	US Forest Service	Monitoring Unexpected Whitebark within Forest Restoration Projects
	Ashley Miller	Colorado State University	Linking terrestrial sources and aerial spread of white pine blister rust inoculum across the U.S. Rocky Mountain region
	E. Kyle Dodson	US Forest Service	Assessing and Improving Whitebark and Limber Pine Data Quality in Rocky Mountain Research Station Forest Inventory and Analysis
12:00-1:30	LUNCH	On your own
1:30-3:15	Early Afternoon Session
	Robbie Flowers	US Forest Service	Mountain beetle in FS R6
	Hannah Alverson	Bureau of Land Management and University of Montana	Survivors in ghost forests: Investigating relationships between climate, radial growth rates, and whitebark pine survival in stands affected by mountain pine beetle and white pine blister rust
	Taza Schaming	Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative	Satellite tracking Clarks nutcrackers in Washington 2017 to 2024 and Wyoming 2014 to 2017 to evaluate space use and movement patterns to aid in whitebark pine restoration preliminary analyses
	Diana Tomback	University of Colorado Denver	Clark’s Nutcracker spatial movements in Yellowstone National Park
	Alison Scoville	Central Washington University	Evaluation of Clark’s Nutcracker occurrence via autonomous recording devices (ARUs) to assist whitebark pine restoration efforts in Washington's Cascade Mountains
	Michael Murray	BC Ministry of Forests	Canada, Collaboration, and Conservation: an Update on Five-needle Pines
	Diana Tomback	University of Colorado Denver	The National Whitebark Pine Restoration Plan: Application and Implementation
3:15	BREAK
3:30-5:15	Late Afternoon Session
	Cameron Naficy	US Forest Service	WBP species distribution modeling
	Anna Schoettle	US Forest Service	Navigating the Threats to Limber Pine Insights from Recent Research
	Kaitlyn Lemon	NASA	Leveraging Earth Observations to Monitor and Predict Populations of Federally Threatened Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis) Across the Intermountain West
	Katie Nicolato		Citizen Conservation of Five-Needle Pines in Oregon's Blue Mountains and Beyond
	Sharon Hood	US Forest Service	Thinning enhances whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) growth and defense
	Kira Hefty	US Forest Service	Series of 3 talks about WBP management in wilderness: Radical Changes for Whitebark Pine in Wilderness, We don't want to be the culture of no Paradigm shifts and tension around restoration of whitebark pine in wilderness, The threatened whitebark pine will increasingly become reliant on designated wilderness under climate change
5:15	CLOSING COMMENTS	Conf. Committee & WPEF
5:30	SOCIAL, POSTER SESSION & SILENT AUCTION	Cash bar and food truck available

Friday, October 11th, 2024

Field Trip to Anthony Lakes Ski Resort

*Please Bring a Sack Lunch

8:00 am Meet at Churchill School to car pool to Anthony Lakes Ski Resort

9:00 am Meet at Anthony Lakes Mtn Resort parking area

2:00 pm Return to car pool rendezvous location

Opportunity to Support Student Grant Program

We would appreciate any donation you can make to the silent auction (auction items or monetary). We know you have amazing talents and we want to see them! The funds raised though this fundraiser go directly to our student grant program, which contributes to fantastic student research. To learn more about this fund, read about our Student Grant Program and the 2024 grant recipients.

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