The conference ‘Borers and Rots in Eucalypts: Commercial Management Issues’, will be held in Western Australia from Monday 5 November to Wednesday 7 November 2007. The first two days will be spent inspecting problems in saw mills, eucalypt plantations and native forests in the South West and be followed by a full day of plenary sessions in Perth.

The reduced availability of large sectioned defect-free timber from old-growth forests has made it a priority to increase the commercial value of timber from plantations and regrowth native forests where damage by borers and rots has become increasingly evident.

Problems associated with borers and rots in both plantation and native forest eucalypts have been recognised and studied for decades. Unfortunately little progress has been made in reducing the commercial damage caused. By pooling widespread experience, the objective of the conference will be to seek commercial management solutions thereby adding value to the commercial eucalypt resources.

The conference will consider damage to living eucalypt trees and freshly felled logs. It will not cover subsequent damage to sawn timber.

I would like to invite you to register for this important conference. I look forward to seeing you in November.

Phil Shedley, Convenor

Phil Shedley
Conference Convenor

MONDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2007    Venue: Gloucester Lodge, Pemberton

           After dinner presentation on the Hester Arboretum
           Phil Shedley

WEDNESDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2007    Venue: DEC Kensington Training Centre

8.30     Registration (one day)

9.00     WELCOME                             Chair: D Wettenhall

           Welcome to delegates

           Introduce keynote speakers

9.10     KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

             Tony Bartlett (GM Forest Industries, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and Forestry)

           Dr Glen Kile (Executive Director, Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation)

           Trevor Richardson (Sawmill Owner and National President of Timber Communities of Australia)

10.00    Morning tea break

10.30    PLENARY SESSION            Chair: Elaine Davison

           Molecular tools for the direct detection and identification of fungi from wood
           Caroline Mohammed

           Investigating basal rot in second rotation E. globulus plantations in South West WA
           Francisco Tovar

           Armillaria luteobubalina in regrowth stands in WA
           Richard Robinson

           Stem borers of eucalypt plantations in sub-tropical NSW and QLD
           Simon Lawson

11.50    Questions and discussion

12.15    Lunch

1.00      PLENARY SESSION             Chair: Peter Beatty

            Incipient rot and rot in E. diversicolor, options for management
            E.M.Davison

            Management of stem defects in eucalypts in Tasmania; old and new bits to the puzzle
            Caroline Mahommed

1.40      Questions and discussion

1.50      PLENARY SESSION             Chair: Martin Rayner

            Staining and resinosis in spotted gum plantations in SE Qld
            Simon Lawson

            The Bugs of Brazil
            Jonathan Majer

            The effectiveness of thinning in eucalypts in reducing losses from stem boring insects and fungal rots
            Tim Wardlaw

2.40      Questions and discussion

3.10      Afternoon tea break

3.30      REVIEW by Roger Underwood

3.50      Conference resolutions

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