Register Today for the Dec.1, 2014 Pest Management Seminar for Professional Landscapers in Southern California

Are you a landscape contractor, arborist, parks or school district landscaper, irrigation specialist, or golf course superintendent working in Southern California?

Do you want to earn maximum PCA/IA/GCSAA/ISA accreditation hours and learn how to prevent, identify and control common landscape diseases, insects, and weeds from University of CA and other experts?

If so, register today for our Dec. 1, 2014 Univ. of CA Pest Management Seminar.  Cost is $25 per person and includes lunch and morning coffee break.

 (7 DPR PCA/QAL/QAC hrs; 7 ISA hrs; 7 IA ceus, .7 GCSAA education points applied for).

 Location: Chino Basin Water Conservation District,4594 San Bernardino Street, Montclair, CA 91763

 Ways to Register and Pay (deadline to register is Nov. 24, 2014):

 1. To pay by credit card, register here: https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=14095 to pay by credit card.

 2. If you are employed by a gov't agency and want to use a purchase order, please email it to jshartin@ucanr.edu along with the list of registrants and the agency to be charged.

 3. If you want to pay by check, please make the check payable to UC REGENTS and mail it to Janet Hartin, UC Cooperative Extension, 777 E. Rialto Avenue, San Bernardino, CA 92415.

Questions! Contact Janet Hartin at 951.313.2023 or jshartin@ucanr.edu

Pest Management in the Landscape Program (Dec. 1, 2014)

8:00 - 8:15 AM:  Check-in and Coffee

8:15  - 8:30 AM:  Welcome

8:30  - 9:30 AM: Insect Borers:  Prevention, Identification and Control (Timothy Paine,  PhD,  Dept  of Entomology,  UC Riverside)

9:30 - 10:30: Weed Control Update (Cheryl Wilen, PhD, UC ANR Area IPM Advisor)

10:30 - 11:30: Abiotic Disorders of Landscape Plants (Janet Hartin, UCCE Area Environmental Horticulture Advisor)

11:30 - 12:30: Lunch (on premise)

12:30 - 1:30: Phytophthora, Armallaria, and Other Disease-causing Pathogens (Jerry Turney, PhD, Los Angeles County Ag Commissioner Plant Pathologist)

1:30 - 2:15: Wildland/urban Interface Issues: Herbicide Screening to Control Buffelgrass (a close relative of fountain grass)

2:15 – 3:15: Biological Control of Invasive Insect Pests in California: Updates on Asian Citrus Psyllid and Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Mark Hoddle, PhD, Dept. of Entomology, UC Riverside)

3:15 - 4:15: Laws and Regulations Update (San Bernardino Ag Commissioner - Speaker TBA)

4:15 - 4:30:  UC ANR IPM Resources (Janet Hartin, UCCE Area Environmental Horticulture Advisor)

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