Whitebark Management Workshops
New Workshops at this year’s Whitebark Pine Science and Management Conference in Baker City, Oregon, October 9-11, 2024
Please join us for our first annual whitebark pine workshops on October 9th in Baker City, Oregon. This year we are offering a 2-hour overview of whitebark pine restoration treatments with retired Forest Service silviculturists, Glenda Scott, Melissa Jenkins and Mike Giesey. This workshop will cover a wide range of treatment options and provide time to ask questions about your specific projects. Later in the afternoon, Erin Shanahan, National Park Service Greater Yellowstone Inventory and Monitoring Network Vegetation Ecologist, and Cara Nelson, Professor of Restoration Ecology at the University of Montana, will lead monitoring workshops. These workshops will include both long-term health monitoring and treatment efficacy monitoring. Much of the workshop information will also be relevant to other high-elevation, five-needle pine species.
Can’t make this year’s workshops? We hope to continue and expand our workshops in the coming years. Please let us know which topics will be most beneficial to you and your team for future workshops. [email protected]
Workshop Descriptions
Whitebark Pine Restoration Treatments Workshop – Mike Giesey, Melissa Jenkins, Glenda Scott (Forest Service silviculturists- retired)
This 2-hour workshop will provide an overview of methods for implementation of stand level whitebark pine restoration treatments. Treatments to be covered include site preparation, planting, direct seeding, cone collection, improving genetic diversity and rust resistance, thinning and release, and protection of investments/high value stand components. We will also review costs, and provide resources available to government, tribal and other land managers for associated activities (i.e., processing cones, growing seedlings, verbenone purchase). While the level of detail provided will be limited due to the inclusivity of the topic, we will cover the basics for each treatment and participants will receive the foundational information they need to be successful. We also expect this workshop will foster discussion and questions which may give rise to future more focused workshops.
Whitebark Pine Monitoring Workshop -Cara Nelson (Univ. or Montana) & Erin Shanahan (National Park Service)
Our whitebark pine monitoring workshop will cover both health monitoring and treatment efficacy monitoring. Erin Shanahan, National Park Service Greater Yellowstone Inventory and Monitoring Vegetation Ecologist will review their whitebark pine long-term health monitoring program. Cara Nelson will cover monitoring treatment efficacy and effects. We will finish with an opportunity to get your hands on some data and assess the efficacy of monitoring designs.
| 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 |