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| Employee training |
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Staff members have taken advantage of a variety of training opportunities such as: advanced driving course, export certification, GPS training, and pesticide applicator and consultant licensing. In addition, staff have attended a variety of professional society meetings including the Oregon Vegetation Management Association, CAPS, Entomological Society of America, Western Horticultural Inspectors Society, and Western Plant Board. Employee training, continuing education and career development remain a high priorities of the Plant Division
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| Oregon invasive species council |
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Plant Division Administrator, Dan Hilburn, has served on the Oregon Invasive Species Council since it was created in 2002. He served his second term as chair of the council in 2007. Tristen Berg, our office manager, provided administrative support for the council, and serves as the OISC Web site publisher. In December, Lisa Druyckere was hired as the new Invasive Species Council coordinator on a two-year contract. Contact information: Creative Resource Strategies, LLL, 6159 Rosemeadow Lane NE, Salem, OR 97317, 503-371-5939, lisad@createstrat.com.
Information about the council and its activities in 2007 is available online at http://oregon.gov/OISC .
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| Ginseng |
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Since 1997, the Plant Division has administered a small Ginseng Management Program. The purpose of the program is to allow Oregon-grown, cultivated ginseng to be certified for export. Licensed growers are supplied with certificates of origin and can self-certify their ginseng crop. Although, the number of licensees shrank to only two in 2007 and we have not been able to fill seats on the Ginseng Advisory Committee, we will continue to provide services to the growers.
Chart: Number of licensed ginseng growers
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| ODA plant division web pages |
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In 2007, the Plant Division Web site pages were maintained and updated by a team of staff members; Tristen Berg, Shannon Brubaker, Jo Davis, Bonnie Rasmussen, Lisa Rehms, Kerri Schwarz, Rebecca Currin, and Melissa Carr. The team worked diligently in the spring to migrate Web content to new mini-sites developed for each division program. The team met three times in 2007 for Web site planning and design, and attended two ODA TeamSite training sessions and a migration workshop. We continue to add new pages and look for new ways to bring our programs to the public. The division’s Web page is online at: http://oregon.gov/ODA/PLANT
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| Federal permits and compliance agreements |
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In 2007, Plant Division staff reviewed 40 PPQ 526 applications to import live plant pests or noxious weeds. Of those applications, 14 were for butterflies. There were five permits to import soil. Fifteen biotech permits or notifications for genetically modified crops were also reviewed. There were six PPQ 588 applications to import plants or plant products.
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| Publications |
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Balciunas, J.K. and E.M. Coombs. (2007), Is the ‘Code of Best Practices’ Helping to Make Biological Control of Weeds Less Risky? In: Proc. XII International Symposium Biological Control of Weeds. April 22-27, 2007, La Grande Motte, France, Sforza, R. and M. Julian (eds.) (In Press).
Coombs, E.M., G.P. Markin, and J. Andreas. (2007). Release and establishment of the Scotch broom beetle Bruchidius villosus in Oregon and Washington, USA. In: Proc. XII International Symposium Biological Control of Weeds. April 22-27, 2007, La Grande Motte, France, Sforza, R. and M. Julian (eds.) (In Press).
Coombs, E.M., J.C.Miller, L.A. Andres, and C.E. Turner. (2007). Biological control of Mediterranean sage (Salvia aethiopis) in Oregon. In: Proc. XII International Symposium Biological Control of Weeds. April 22-27, 2007, La Grande Motte, France, Sforza, R. and M. Julian (eds.) (In Press).
Coombs, E. M., G. L. Piper, M. Schwarzländer, J. Milan, and J. Andreas. 2007. Biological Control. Pages 4-7 in: R. D. William, D. Ball, T. L. Miller, R. Parker, J. P. Yenish, T. W. Miller, D. W. Morishita and P. J. S. Hutchinson (eds.). Pacific Northwest Weed Management Handbook. Extension Services, Oregon State University, Corvallis.
Eskandari, F., W. L. Bruckart, III, N. W. Shad, A. Sechler, E. Postnokova, and E. M. Coombs. (2007). First report of crown gall caused by Agrobacterium sp. on diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa). Plant Disease (In Press).
Hilburn, D.J. 2007. The Early Life of Riley. ISBN 978-1-4303-1824-8. Lulu.com. 78 pp.
Hill, R.L., J. Ireson, A.W. Sheppard, A.H. Gourlay, H. Norambuena, G.P. Markin, R. Kwong, E.M. Coombs. (2007). A Global View of the Future for Biological Control of Gorse, Ulex europaeus L In: Proc. XII International Symposium Biological Control of Weeds. April 22-27, 2007, La Grande Motte, France, Sforza, R. and M. Julian (eds.) (In Press)
Huffman, B.T., ed. Transgressing the Frontier: Modernity, American ideology, and Cinema. Reconstruction 7.3, 2007.
Huffman, B.T. “Transgressing the Frontier: Modernity, American ideology, and Cinema.” Reconstruction 7.3, 2007.
Huffman, B.T. “Entomological Maginot Line.” Ecotone, Spring 2007.
Meinke, R.J. and T.N. Kay. 2007. Kalmiopsis fragrans (Ericaceae), a new distylous species from the southern Cascade Mountains of Oregon. Journal of Botanical Research Institute of Texas 1(1):9-19.
Myers-Shenai, B. ed. 2007. Western US Invasive Plant EDRR Weed ID Guide. Oregon Department of Agriculture in cooperation with US Dpartment of Agriculture, APHIS, PPQ.
Mudge, A.D. and T.B. Adams. 2007. A new host record and first report of Pleocoma dubitabilis dubitabilis Davis (Coleoptera: Pleocomidae) as a pest of Christmas trees. The Coleopterists Bulletin. 61(2):292-294.
Westcott, R.L. 2007. A new species of Acmaeodera Eschscholtz from Guatemala (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). The Coleopteristis Bulletin 61(2):281-282.
Westcott, R.L. 2007. The exotic Agrilus subrobustus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) is found in northern Georgia. The Coleopteristis Bulletin 61(1):111-112.
Westcott, R.L. 2007. A new species of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz feeding on Dudleya spp. (Crassulaceae) from California and Baja California, with biological, distributional, and taxonomic notes on other North American Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Zootaxa 1630:23-37.
Westcott, R.L. and W.F. Barr. 2007. Resurrection and review of the genus Knowltonia Fisher, with description of a new subspecies of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz from North America (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Zootaxa 1481:49-58.
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