10:15 AM Vegetative Production of BC conifers*Bev Wigmore , Forest Renewal
BC Project, Cowichan BC
10:35 AM Growing Spruce Somatic Seedlings*Don Summers, Manager, Forest Nursery
Extension, Surrey, BC, Ministry of Forests
10:55 AM Somatic Spruce Seedlings - Field Results*Dr. Chris Hawkins, Research
Scientist, Prince George, BC, Ministry of Forests, Research
11:20 AM Eucalypt Propagation & ManagementJanine Lum, Consultant, Forest
Solutions, Honokas Hawaii
11:40 AM Propagation of Aspen from Root CuttingsDavid R. Dreesen, USDA, Los
Lumas Plant Materials Center, New Mexico
12:00 PM Lunch at Hotel
1:00 PM Informal Presentations of Technology Updates Presenters must register in advance.
Limitation will be a maximum of 10 minutes.
3:15 PM Travel to Bucharts Gardens
6:00 PM Return to hotel
6:15 PM No host bar
7:00 PM Banquet at Hotel
Chief Foresters Award
Entertainment/speaker
Thursday, August 13, 1998
Seedling Health
8:00 AM Forest Nursery Pathology in BC*Dave Trotter, Nursery Pest Management
Specialist, Ministry of Forests, Surrey, BC
8:30 AM Biological Control in Forest Nurseries*Don Elliot, Applied Bionomics,
Sidney, BC
Innovation in Nursery Operations
9:00 AM TBA
9:20 AM Container Mechanization*Jim Kusisto, Manager, Skimikin Nursery, Ministry
of Forests, BC*Gary DeBoer, Riverside Nursery, Armstrong, BC
9:45 AM Coffee Break
Whats Up With Native Plants
10:15 AM Native Plants at the Pacific Forest Centre*Rob Hagel, Pacific Forest
Centre, Victoria, BC
10:35 AM Use of Native Plants in Mine Reclamation*Carol Jones, C.E. Jones
& Associates, Victoria, BC
10:55 AM Native Plants in the Styroblock System*Dave Enns, Landing Nursery,
Vernon, BC
11:15 AM Use of Native Species in conjunction with Bioengineering Techniques
in Streambank Restoration* Mike Wallis, Biologist, Wallis Environmental Aquatics,
Salmon Arm, BC
11:35 AM Collection, Propagation and Use of Native Plants* Paulus Vrijmoed,
Linnaea Nurseries Ltd.
11:55 AM Closing of Joint ConferenceEv van Eerden, FNABC President