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Revitalizing the Comprehensive National Pest Surveys: A Strategic Framework for Modern Integrated Pest Management

This program review of the CFS role at the time highlights the need for a strategic framework to address fragmented expertise and prioritize roles and responsibilities. The aim is to improve messaging, clarify the federal government's role in IPM, and address challenges in the field of forest science. The review emphasizes the importance of clear identification of needs, organization, and evidence-based response in line with changing values and legislation. The review also highlights important risk analysis information and the need for integration and adaptation in response.

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Revitalizing the Comprehensive National Pest Surveys: A Strategic Framework for Modern Integrated Pest Management

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  1. Program Review 1995 • CFS Role at the time • Comprehensive national pest surveys (FIDS) • Regional S&T expertise in basic forest science • National institutes for applied science (eg. FMPI)

  2. Response and Recovery • Lost influence and capacity for monitoring just as its importance was gaining national recognition. • Decreased diagnostic and biological response capacity just as alien species were becoming a federal concern. We drifted into a regional interpretation of roles and priorities just as a national identity was required. No agreed roadmap and federal priorities were ill-defined. Our lifelines for 15 years have been Alien Species Strategy for Canada, Mountain Pine Beetle Initiative, National Forest Pest Strategy. It’s time to get back on the road

  3. A few things to fix • Inconsistent messaging to clients • Ambiguous context for CFS staff • Natural science expertise fragmented among; • FIAS • IPM • Biodiversity • Fibre Centre

  4. National Forest Pest Strategy An opportunity for strategic change in the CFS The responsibility for necessary elements in modern IPM are distributed among different jurisdictions by legislation. SO… Leadership and practical mechanisms are required to overcome significant impediments to progress. Specifically, we need a framework or model that enables clear identification of roles and responsibilities and timely, evidence-based response based upon what is needed for modern IPM and not on conflicting expectations. The model must recognize Canada’s particular patterns of ownership and legislation as well as the changing values of forests globally. These are enshrined in NFPS principles. Pest

  5. Some necessary navel gazing • The federal role interacts with Canadian forestry • in areas of: • sustainability • competitiveness • regulations & certification A useful framework would help us identify the needs, our niche, the cut-points for decisions and how to organize effectively for delivery. • The federal government also must act on behalf of Canada in matters of: • carbon accounting • international agreements (eg. biodiversity and trade)

  6. Risk Analysis Information What do we know? Assessment Integrate and adapt What does it mean? What do we do? Response

  7. Partner Puzzle Universities PROVIDERS Knowledge Service CFS CFIA STEWARDS Legislated Responsibilities Provincial

  8. MPB Risk Analysis update Good example of strong CFS legacy followed by infusion of new C-$$ and now followed by need to bring activities back into normal CFS program context. • Original issues for federal government were: • novel threat to forest resulting from range expansion • (i.e. SPREAD). • regulatory issues associated with salvage • (i.e. MITIGATION) • environmental uncertainty • (i.e. IMPACTS UNKNOWN)

  9. Results from three workshops 2010-11 • What we know now: • Finds and produces successful broods in jack pine. • Weather will influence survival but not extirpate. • Rate of spread faster than expected. • There are more and valued pines further east. • What we need to know very soon: • Actual, current range of insect not of damage • Workshop to re-examine spread models • Dynamics at low- to moderate densities • Links to mitigation strategies and tactics

  10. SBW Risk Analysis update Good example of CFS basic research knowledge turned into operational tool and now seeking wider application which, in turn, requires new S&T knowledge. Focussed risk analysis clarifies needs and roles: Province: provision of stand-level growth-and-yield, hazard, and depletion information. Test and adapt. Academia/Private sector: Applied development of tool, customize programming, as-needed modifications. CFS: S&T to develop tool, tech transfer and expert support, knowledge to enable broader application.

  11. SBW Risk Analysis update • Results from 2010-2011 workshops • The emerging budworm outbreak in eastern Canada • requires knowledge-based response that balances • economic and environmental cost-benefits. • 2. Uncertainty over change in risk (climate and forest • structure). • 3. Favourable potential in transfer of existing DSS to new • situation. • 4. Uncertainties over broader application of DSS to be • addressed by integration of DSS with new generation • of population dynamics knowledge.

  12. Gov of Canada NRCan, CFIA, PMRA, EC, AAFC, FAIT, INAC, Parks NFPS CCFM CFS Registration/ agreements Explore/discover Assess/characterize commercialize Legislation & Policy S&T Vince Nealis April, 2008

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