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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><STRONG>Registration for MAIPC’s 2014 Biological
Control Workshop is now open.<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><STRONG>The workshop, titled Managing Invasive
Plants: Beyond Pull, Cut, and Spray will be on Tuesday, July 29, at the Rock
Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW Washington, D.C. 20015
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><STRONG>Damien
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><STRONG>President<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><STRONG>Mid-Atlantic Invasive Plant Council
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(8:30am-4:30pm)</FONT></B></SPAN>
<UL><B>8:30am -- Registration & Coffee </B></UL>
<UL><B>9:00am -- Welcome & Introductions</B>
<BR><I>Damien Ossi, President, & Marc Imlay, Advisory
Committee, Mid-Atlantic Invasive Plant Council</I></UL>
<UL><B>9:15 am -- Keynote Address</B> <BR><FONT
color=purple>The Larger Picture: Invasive Species - What
Everyone Needs to Know</FONT> <BR><I>Dan Simberloff, Dept.
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Tennessee
& Editor in Chief, Biological Invasions</I></UL>
<UL><B>10:15am</B> -- <FONT color=purple>Mile-a-minute weed
and weevil response to varying moisture and temperature
conditions, Purple Loosestrife</FONT> <BR><I><A
href="http://canr.udel.edu/faculty/hough-goldstein-judy/"
target=_blank>Judy Hough-Goldstein</A>, Professor, Dept.
Entomology & Wildlife Ecology University of Delaware</I>
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<UL><B>10:50am</B> -- <FONT color=purple>TAG, Technical
Advisory Group for Biological Control Agents of Weeds</FONT>
<BR><I>Robert Tichenor, National Policy Manager Biological
Control USDA APHIS PPQ Plant Health Programs</I></UL>
<UL><B>11:00am</B> -- Break</UL>
<UL><B>11:15am</B> -- <FONT color=purple>Beneficial Plant
Pathogens for Biological Control of Weeds</FONT>
<BR><I>William L. Bruckart III, Research Plant Pathologist,
USDA, ARS, Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit
(FDWSRU)</I></UL>
<UL><B>11:55pm -- Lunch</B></UL>
<UL><B>12:55pm</B> -- <FONT color=purple>Tree of
Heaven</FONT> <BR><I>Matthew T. Kasson, Forest
Pathologist/Research Scientist, Virginia Tech Dept. of Plant
Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science </I></UL>
<UL><B>1:10pm</B> -- <FONT color=purple>Ecological Traps and
Native Butterflies: Can Weed Biocontrol Save the Monarchs
and Native Pierids?</FONT> <BR><I>Richard Casagrande The
University of Rhode Island Biological Control Lab</I></UL>
<UL><B>1:35pm</B> -- <FONT color=purple>The effects of
insects promoted for biocontrol of weedy thistles on a
threatened native thistle.</FONT> <BR><I>Kay Havens, Plant
Science and Conservation, Chicago Botanic Garden</I></UL>
<UL><B>1:50pm</B> -- <FONT color=purple>Thistle Management
and Biological Control in Future Climates.</FONT> <BR><I>Joe
Keller, Pennsylvania State University</I></UL>
<UL><B>2:05pm</B> -- Break</UL>
<UL><B>2:120pm</B> -- <FONT color=purple>Hemlock Woolly
Adelgid, mile-a-minute local perspective, and yellow
toadflax</FONT> <BR><I>Susan Parker and Tim Tomon, West
Virginia Dept. of Agriculture</I></UL>
<UL><B>2:50pm</B> -- <FONT color=purple>The Importance of
Rigorous Host-Specificity Testing before Releasing
Biological Control Agents: Lessons Learned from Invasive
Thistle Biocontrol. Update on Japanese Knotweed and Garlic
Mustard. </FONT><BR><I>Mike Sowers, Entomologist and
Invasive Species Ecologist</I></UL>
<UL><B>3:15pm</B> -- <FONT color=purple>Panel
Discussion</FONT> <BR><I>Susan Parker, Tim Tomon, Kay
Havens, Joe Keller, Richard Casagrande, Mike Sowers </I></UL>
<UL><B>3:45pm</B> -- <FONT color=purple>Common
Questions</FONT> <BR><I>William Bruckart, Judy
Hough-Goldstein</I></UL>
<UL><B>4:00pm -- Mid-Atlantic Invasive Plant Council Annual
Business Meeting</B> <BR><I>Damien Ossie, MAIPC
President</I></UL>
<UL><B>4:30pm --
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