SF Environment IPM Meeting Meeting Date: February 6, 2025 Presentation title: Fire, defensible space, and implications for pest management Featured speaker: Steven Swain Environmental Horticulture Advisor Marin & Sonoma Counties The following topics are covered: - The defensible space dance: science and policy - The low-carbon landscape: Location is everything - Structure density, separation, and survivability - Weed control: how fire can help - Powdery mildew, a post-fire opportunistic disease ..read more

SF Environment IPM Meeting Meeting Date: March 6, 2025 Presentation title: How can we best utilize monitoring data to inform integrated approaches to weed management?  Featured speaker: Justin M. Valliere, PhD Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension Invasive Weed & Restoration Ecology Department of Plant Sciences University of California, Davis The following topics are covered: - Introduction to global change and invasive plants in California - Invasion of the Santa Monica Mountains under environmental change - Invasive plant control and restoration - Using monitoring data to inf ..read more

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SF Environment IPM Meeting Meeting Date: October 3, 2024 Presentation title: An IPM approach to mystery bite investigations and pest control issues associated with homeless encampments  Featured speaker: Laura Krueger Board Certified Entomologist Vector Ecologist Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District The following topics are covered: -An IPM approach to mystery bite investigations -Overview of the biology of the most common bugs associated with mystery bites -How to control mosquitoes, fleas, bird/rat mites -How to rule out the presence of “bugs” as a cause of mystery bites ..read more

SF Environment IPM Meeting Meeting Date: September 5, 2024 Presentation title: Invasive plant pest management on Yerba Buena Island Featured speaker: Peter Brastow Senior Biodiversity Specialist Yerba Buena Island Restoration Ecologist San Francisco Environment Department The following topics are covered: 1. Yerba Buena Island ecosystem and weed species presence a. The climate and ecosystem of the island b. Overview of the island’s weed management program 2. Integrated pest management strategies for weeds on the island a. Cultural control of pests on the island 3. Weed management case studies ..read more

SF Environment IPM Meeting Meeting Date: August 1, 2024 Presentation title: An IPM approach to managing burrowing mammals Featured speaker: Roger A. Baldwin, PhD Professor of Cooperative Extension Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology University of California, Davis The following topics are covered: -Mammal pest species identification: ground squirrels, pocket gophers, moles, and voles -Various pest management tools for burrowing mammals -Biocontrol -Habitat modification -Exclusion -Repellents -Trapping -Burrow fumigation -Other control options (burrow destruction, fertility c ..read more

SF Environment IPM Meeting Meeting Date: June 6, 2024 Presentation title: The 3 “R’s” of Integrated Rodent Management: Realizable, Reduced-Risk, and Responsible Featured speaker: Luis Agurto Jr. CEO Pestec The following topics are covered: -Risk and Requirements for rodent management -Rodent IPM Plan -Humane rodent management ..read more

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