10th Annual Central California Invasive Weed Symposium
(formerly War on Weeds)

The Monterey County Weed Management Area and CSUMB's Watershed Institute would like to welcome you to the 10th Annual Central California Invasive Weed Symposium. 

Keynote Speaker: Carla Bossard, Ph. D., Professor of Biology,

Saint Mary's College of California

Preliminary Schedule (with Field trip details following)

*14.5 total CEU credits will be available! 6 (six) regular credits and .5 (1/2) laws and regs. credits will be available for Friday's symposium and 4 (four) regular credits will be available for each of the field trips occurring Thursday and Saturday.

8:15 - 9:00 AM Registration - with coffee, tea, and snacks.

9:00 - 9:10 Introduction and Welcoming Announcements

9:10 - 9:45 Keynote Speaker:

Carla Bossard - The Brave New World of Managing Novel Ecosystems.

9:45 - 11:00 Session I: Research

Sarah M. Swopes and Ingrid M. Parker, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA - Multispecies interactions and lifetime fitness of the invasive plant, Centaurea solstitalis.

Irina C. Irvine, Jennifer B.H. Martiny, Katharine N. Suding, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine - Pink Methylotrophic Mutualists in Coastal Sage Scrub

Ken Moore, Wildlands Restoration Team, Santa Cruz County - Slaying the Giants - Eradicating eucalyptus and other big weeds (Part-I).

11:00 - 12:00 Session II: Tool Tailgate - Tool Sharing and Demos

Demonstrations on use of sheep, heavy equipment, spray equipment, GIS/GPS hardware and software, and hand tools of the invasive weed abatement trade.

12:00 - 12:50 Lunch - Buffet Lunch (vegetarian and omnivore options available)

12:50 - 2:05 Session III: New Techniques for Controlling Invasive Weeds

Ken Moore, Wildlands Restoration Team, Santa Cruz County - Slaying the Giants, eradicating eucalyptus and other big weeds (Part -II).

Casey Stewman - Use of Integrated Vegetation Management by Santa Cruz County along roads.

John Knapp - Use of feral pig eradication design for application to eradicate invasive plants.

2:15-2:45 Session IV: Poster Session

Invasive aquatic weeds: Implications for mosquito and vector management activities. Charles E. Blair, MD*, Trustee, Mosquito and Vector Management District of Santa Barbara County

Effects of changing climatic and edaphic conditions on Bromus tectorum invasion in the easternSierra Nevada.  Amy Concilio and Michael Loik, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. 

Dremann'sWeed Haiku – A Weed Art Piece.  Craig and Sue Dremann, Redwood Seed Company, Redwood City, CA

Soil biota facilitate invasion within microhabitats in a California coastal prairie.  Taraneh Emam* ¹, Bruce Pavlik ², Peter Alpert ³. ^1,2 Mills College, Oakland, CA. ³ Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.   

Interactive effects of population genetic diversity and resident community composition on the success of an annual exotic invasive species. Heather McGray*, Marlyse Lombardo & Katharine N. Suding, UC Irvine.

Sinapsis alba seed meal as a pre-emergent control for French broom (Genista monspessulana) seedlings. Ken Moore¹ & Carla Bossard²*, ¹Wildlands Restoration Team, ²Biology Dept., St. Mary’s College of California.  

Seed bank management: The key to creating a successful, diverse native landscapes.  Michael Shaw, Santa Cruz, CA

Natural Resource Pest Management and the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program. James J. Stapleton, Coordinator - Natural Resources, UC Statewide IPM Program, Kearney Agricultural Center, Parlier, CA

Adaptation and evaluation of “double tent” solar heating for eradicating weed seeds in remote areas. James J. Stapleton¹*, Susan B. Mallek¹, Ron Eng², & Albert Franklin³, ¹UC Statewide IPM Program, ²California Dept. of Food & Agriculture, ³U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management.

An Assessment of Control Methods for Cape ivy in Central California Coastal Riparian Ecosystems.  Jennifer Stern and Fred Watson, CSU Monterey Bay, Watershed Institute

Control of Jubatagrass and Restoration of Fountain Thistle Habitat in the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Peninsula Watersheds. Don Thomas, Sonya Foree and Ellen Natesan, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA.

Non-Native Invasive Species Control on Army Lands, Former Fort Ord.  Cary Stiebel, Sue Hubbard, Bruce Delgado, and Bill Collins, Bureau of Land Management, BRAC - Fort Ord.

San Francisco Baylands Ecotone Restoration & Management Demonstration Research Project at the Don Edwards...David Thomson, Don Edwards, Genie Moore, Lisa Infante, and Giselle Block.

Inspiring young students to understand, appreciate, and protect the environment through restoration projects. Amanda Yantos, Hilton Bialek Biological Sciences Habitat, Carmel, CA 

2:45- 4:30  Session V: Rules and Regulations and Restoration

Bob Case, Kathryn White, and Tim Hyland  Contra Costa County Ag Commissioners Office - Dept.of Pesticide Regulation, pesticide use monitoring inspection and CA. State Parks

Rick Miller, DOW AgroSciences - Milestone VP Plus Herbicide

Craig Dremman, Redwood City Seed Company and The Reveg Edge - Deep Weeding

David Thomson, Genie Moore, Lisa Infonte, and Giselle Block San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, DEFSB NWR, NROSD, San Pablo Bay NWR

Robert Roach, Monterey County Ag Commissioner’s Office - Monterey County arundo eradication projects

4:30 - 4:45 Final Announcements & Goodbye

Field Trips

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Sunset Beach State Park/Santa Cruz County

Tim Hyland will show us on-going projects that use herbicide, fire, hand tools, and volunteers to eradicate several coastal weeds such as iceplant, European beach grass, and non-native annual grasses to restore coastal dune habitat.

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Michael Shaw Property in La Selva Beach

Michael Shaw will show us an on-going meadow restoration projects on his property and then treat the group to a BB-Q!

Check back for more details TBA!