Threats Conference 2006
Advances in Threat Assessment and Their Application to Forest and Rangeland Management
Conference Announcement
July 18-20, 2006
Millennium Harvest House
Boulder, Colorado
The Problem
North Americas forests and rangelands face many environmental threats that often act in concert and with no regard for land ownership and administrative boundaries. As such, they are difficult to identify and anticipate, much less manage or control.
The Conference
A conference was held July 18-20, 2006, in Boulder, Colorado, to explore the latest information on environmental threat assessment and management. More information on presentations at the conference is available:
Oral presenters were encouraged to submit papers at the conference. Accepted papers passing peer-review are being published in a single-volume book and incorporated into this Web-based forest threats encyclopedia, a new component of the Forest Encyclopedia Network.
Who Should Attend
This conference was designed to encourage meaningful exchange among those developing new knowledge and tools for threat assessment and those responsible for managing forests and rangelands. Scientists and educators, policymakers, property owners, land managers, and students were among those invited to attend.
Sponsors
Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service
Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service
Cooperative State Research, Education, & Extension Service
Southern Regional Extension Forestry
Southern Forest Research Partnership
Oversight of the conference and submitted papers was the responsibility of the following program committee:
- John M. Pye, webmaster and program chair, Southern Research Station, jpye@fs.fed.us
- Jerome S. (Jerry) Beatty, Director, Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center, jbeatty@fs.fed.us
- Danny C. Lee, Director, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, dclee@fs.fed.us
- Gregg DeNitto, Group Leader, Forest Health Protection (Region 1), gdenitto@fs.fed.us
- Michael H. Rauscher, Research Forester, Southern Research Station, mrauscher@fs.fed.us
- Yasmeen Sands, Technology Transfer Specialist, Pacific Northwest Research Station, ysands@fs.fed.us
- Charles G. (Terry) Shaw, Chief Scientist, Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center, cgshaw@fs.fed.us
- James P. Shepard, Head of the Forestry Department, Mississippi State University, jshepard@cfr.msstate.edu
- David A. Weinstein, Senior Research Associate, Cornell University, daw5@cornell.edu
- Gary Benson, Focused Science Delivery Unit, at that time with the Pacific Northwest Research Station
Encyclopedia ID: p9
