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Jan 11

Management Options for Striped Cucumber Beetle in Organic Cucurbits

2:00 pm EST

Join eOrganic for a webinar on management options for striped cucumber beetle on organic farms by Abby Seaman and Jeffrey Gardner of Cornell University. The webinar takes place on Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 2PM Eastern (1PM Central, 12PM Mountain, 11AM Pacific Time).

Striped cucumber beetle (SCB) is one of the most challenging insects to control in organic cucurbit production. The presenters will discuss the basics of SCB biology, cultural practices that can minimize damage, the latest on the effectiveness of insecticides allowed for organic production, and a discussion of breeding work underway to help reduce beetle impact.

This webinar was organized by members of the NIFA-OREI funded Eastern Sustainable Cucurbit Project, which is a collaboration of growers, researchers and extension agents working to find solutions for the many challenges facing organic cucurbit producers. Find more webinars by this project here in the eOrganic webinar archive at http://articles.extension.org/pages/25242

Presenters: Abby Seaman, New York State IPM Program; Jeffrey Gardener, Entomology Department, Cornell University

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Jan 11

Searching for Goldilocks: Balancing Forest Ecosystem Restoration and Old-Forest Species Conservation in the Sierra Nevada, CA

2:00 pm EST

Concern over the social, economic, and ecological consequences of increasingly frequent "megafires" in California's Sierra Nevada have led some to propose large-scale forest restoration to increase ecosystem resilience. However, restoration efforts (e.g., forest thinning) may have collateral impacts on declining old-forest species. Is it possible to find balance between these two seemingly competing objectives? In this hour, I explore this question using the California spotted owl as a model old-forest species, and share new insights from ongoing research as part of my PhD dissertation.

Gavin Jones is broadly interested in developing ecological models that inform management decisions and improve conservation outcomes. He is currently a PhD student at University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology. You can follow Gavin on twitter (@EcologyOfGavin), or visit his page at the Peery Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Lab to learn more.

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Jan 12

Avian genetics: Introduction to poultry breeding

3:00 pm EST

There has been a lot of interest in breeding small poultry flocks. This webinar will present an introduction to avian genetics and the basics of poultry breeding. Dr. Darrin Karcher at Purdue University will provide the overview of avian genetics while Dr. David Frame from Utah State University will discuss the basics of poultry breeding.