November 3, 2014

9:00am-4:00pm -  2 Field Trips offered. Arrive between 8:30 and 8:45 to check in

• 1. Urban Oak Field Tour. 
• 2. Oak Ecology. 

Both tours are concurrent so choose only one when registering.  Both  tours are departing for the Visalia Convention Center at 9:00am.  Arrive between 8:30am and 8:45am to check in.

5:30pm-8:00pm - Icebreaker reception

November 4

• Opening Session
  • 7:30-8:30  Registration
  • 8:30 – 8:40 Welcome; Overview of Program
  • 8:40 – 9:05 People and Oaks – Paul Starrs, University of Nevada, Reno
  • 9:05 – 9:30 How oaks respond to water – Mike Allen, Plant Pathology and Microbiology, UC Riverside; Edie Allen, Plant Ecology, UC Riverside
  • 9:30 – 9:55 Acorn woodpeckers – Walt Koenig, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University
  • 9:55 – 10:20 BREAK
  • 10:20 – 10:45 Paleo history and oaks - Scott Mensing, Dept. of Geography, University of Nevada, Reno
  • 10:45 – 11:10 Landscape-scale dynamics of California oak populations and ecosystems - Frank Davis, Bren School of the Environment, UC Santa Barbara
  • 11:10 – 11:35 Climate Change and Oaks - Dennis Baldocchi, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
  • 11:35 – 12:00 Oak Policy in California - James Bartolome and Lynn Huntsinger, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
  • 12:00 - 1:30 PM - LUNCH (provided)

• Concurrent Session
  • 1:30 - 5:00 PM Concurrent Sessions 1 and 2

• Poster Session
  • 5:30 - 8:00 PM Poster Session

November 5

• Concurrent Sessions
  • 8:30 AM - 12:00 Concurrent Sessions 3 and 4
  • 12:20 - 2:00 PM - LUNCH (provided)
  • 1:30 - 4:10 PM Concurrent Sessions 5 and 6

November 6

• Concurrent Sessions
  • 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Concurrent Sessions 7 and 8
• Closing General Session -
  • 10:30 - 12:00 noon  - Oaks, Drought and Climate Change

Continuing Education Approval

Western Chapter International Society of Arboriculture (ISA)

Certified Arborists

• Treeworker - 19 total CEU's
• Arborist - 19 total CEU's
• Municipal Specialist - 19 total CEU's

Board Certified Arborists

• Science - 9.50 total CEU's
• Management - 9.50 total CEU's

Society of American Foresters (SAF)

• This program has been reviewed and is approved for professional CFE credits by the Society of American Foresters. 
• Category 1-CF: 10.5. 
• Category 2: 1.0

Sponsors:

• University of California Oak Woodland Conservation Program
• University of California, Berkeley, Center for Forestry
• University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
• USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station