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CONFERENCES - TREES DISEASES CONFERENCE
Programme
Wednesday 21st April 2010
| 09.15 | Registration and coffee in the Wolfson Conference Suite |
| 09.45 | Welcome: Anthony Bosanquet (RFS President) |
THE CHALLENGES |
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| Chairman: Tim Rollinson (DG Forestry Commission) | |
| 10.00 | Setting the Scene Joan Webber (Head of Pathology, Forest Research) |
| 10.20 | Biosecurity Roddie Burgess (Head Plant Health Service, FC) |
| 10.40 | Key health issues with native oaks Sandra Denman (Senior Pathologist, FR) |
| 11.00 | Curtains for Conkers? Nigel Straw (Entomologist, FR) |
| 11.20 | COFFEE, EXHIBITS & TRADE STANDS |
THE RAMIFICATIONS |
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| Chairman: John Good (Forest Ecologist) | |
| 11.45 | Tree diseases & the arboriculture industry – an overview Jonathan Hazel (Head of Arboriculture, Parkwood Holdings) |
| 12.00 | The conservation angle Keith Kirby (Woodland Advisor, Natural England) |
| 12.15 | The economic impacts of it all Colin Price (Professor of Environmental and Forestry Economics, Bangor University) |
| 12.30 | Public knowledge, perceptions and who pays - lessons from Sudden Oak Death Susana Mourato (Reader, London School of Economics) |
| 12.45 | The role of tree breeding & silviculture in controlling tree
pests & diseases Peter Savill (Oxford Forestry Institute Rtd) & Karen Russell (Lockhart Garratt) |
| 13.00 | LUNCH & EXHIBITS |
LESSONS FROM CASE STUDIES |
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| 14.00 | Chair: Hilary Allison (Head of Policy, Woodland Trust) Forest Protection in Ireland Gerard Cahalane (Irish Forest Service) Red Band Needle Blight at Thetford Neil Kellett (Ops Manager FC Thetford) An oakwood owners lament Peter Goodwin (Woodland Heritage) A view from Kew Tony Kirkham (Head of Arboriculture, RBG Kew) Conkers, Cankers & Garlic Jon Cocking (Principal, JC Associates) |
THE SOLUTIONS? |
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| 15.00 | PLENARY, CONCLUSIONS & WHAT NEXT? |
| 16.00 | TEA & DEPART |
This programme is correct at time of print. The organisers reserve the right to change speakers and timings.
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