[Pollinator] press release - IPM Symposium

[Kimberly Winter]

NAPPC partners Sherry Glick (EPA), Kathy Seikel (EPA), Carol DiSalvo (NPS), 
Larry Elworth (Center for Agric. Partnerships), and NAPPC Int'l. Coordinator 
Kim Winter participated at this week's IPM Symposium in St. Louis, Missouri.

NAPPC offered a poster and handouts illustrating tips on how to promote IPM 
practices that protect pollinators.

>From Sherry:

"Press Release for 5th National IPM Symposium:

Over 650 people gathered to the Gateway City of St. Louis to share 
innovations that lead to a safer food supply, enhanced human health and an 
improved environment.  The 5th National IPM Symposium, “Delivering on a 
Promise” was held from April 4-6th.  With over 23 countries represented, the 
program included mini-symposia, workshops, roundtable sessions and social 
events that revisited roots by remembering the basic tenets of IPM and 
addressing challenges to educate the public about the importance of 
integrated pest management.   Sessions addressed state of the art strategies 
and technologies that will successfully solve pest problems in agricultural, 
recreational, natural and community settings.

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an effective and environmentally 
sensitive approach to pest management that relies on a combination of 
common-sense practices. The IPM approach can be applied to both agricultural 
and non-agricultural settings, such as the home, garden, and schools. IPM 
takes advantage of all pest management options including, but not limited 
to, the judicious use of pesticides.

A key event at the Symposium included the presentation of the first ever 
National IPM Achievement Awards.  There were twenty-five award nominations 
from four countries, all of them demonstrating effective IPM practices and 
programs that deliver economic, health and environmental benefits.  The 
National IPM Achievement Award winners are:

Glades Crop Care, Inc., Jupiter Florida

Hawaii Area-Wide Fruit Fly Integrated Pest Management Program

Integrated Pest Management Program, City and County of San Francisco, 
California

Dr. Marc Lame, Monroe IPM School Model, Bloomington, IN

Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association

Plans are already underway for another IPM Symposium in 2009. The 4th IPM 
Symposium held in 2003 attracted more than 700 research, education, 
government, industry and environmental and health advocacy professionals 
from 17 countries for three days of information sharing, networking and 
organizing on key pest management issues we face.

Glades Crop Care, Inc.; Jupiter, FL  Glades Crop Care has provided scouting 
and consulting services for over 30 years in Southeastern US and the 
Caribbean Basin.  Above and beyond crop consulting services, Glades Crop 
Care has conducted independent and collaborative research in all areas of 
pest management on some of the most intense and quality conscious crops.  
Glades received the IPM Achievement award because they are always innovative 
while building new partnerships in the private and government sectors.  
Glades Crop Care is a recognized leader in IPM, from their implementation of 
standard IPM practices to developing their own solutions.  Glades has been a 
leader in integrating management approaches to limit high risk pesticides 
through the reliance on biological intensive IPM.

Hawaii Area-Wide Fruit Fly Integrated Pest Management Program (HAW-FLYPM)  
This Program includes representatives from the US Department of Agriculture, 
University of Hawaii, and the Hawaii Department of Agriculture.  The 
HAW-FLYPM Program pioneered IPM techniques for the area-wide control of four 
fruit fly species using pilot locations on three of Hawaii’s farming 
islands.  The Program uses a “1-2-3” approach consisting of population 
monitoring and traps, field sanitation, and protein bait sprays.  The 
HAW-FLYPM Program also integrates the use of population suppression (male 
annihilation, sterilization release, and bio-control strategies), education 
and training for both residential homeowners and farm growers.  This core 
team of project leaders from the state and federal governments created and 
implemented a comprehensive pest management program which is environmentally 
acceptable, biologically based, and sustainable for the control of four 
different fruit flies.  This group has made an immediate and far-reaching 
impact on Hawaii’s agricultural community using technologies that are easily 
transferable to other regions.

Integrated Pest Management Program City and County of San Francisco, 
California   The City of San Francisco’s IPM program has pioneered 
aggressive and creative strategies to reduce pesticide use through 
deployment of a suite of innovative pest management strategies in city 
parks, buildings, the port, airport and municipal golf courses over the last 
ten years.  Both Chris Geiger and Deanna Simon have pioneered a number of 
innovations for IPM that has reduced the city’s total pesticide use by more 
than 70 percent as of March 2006.  Implementation is conducted through 
regular trainings, and workshops, a newsletter, monthly meetings of the 
end-user group, and collaborative partnerships with universities, 
non-profits, and industry and government entities.  The IPM Program for the 
City and the County of San Francisco has proven itself a leader among 
municipal IPM programs throughout the United States.

Dr. Marc Lame, Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental 
Affairs  Dr. Lame has been a leader in school IPM for over a decade.  His 
work, known as the Monroe IPM Model has been implemented in schools from 
Indiana, Florida, Ohio, Alabama, Washington, Arizona and most recently, 
Utah.  The Monroe Model boasts 70 to 90 percent reductions in both pests and 
pesticide applications with no increase in long term costs.  The Monroe 
Model is currently expanding into child care facilities in Indiana and 
Arizona.  Dr. Lame’s dedication to school IPM issues runs deep; he wrote “A 
Worm in the Teacher’s Apple: Protecting America’s School Children from Pests 
and Pesticides”, which illustrates the national problem of pesticide 
dependence and outlines effective alternatives to the “exterminator” 
approach to pest management.  Dr. Marc Lame is a national leader in the 
promotion and implementation of school IPM.

Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association   This organization has 
been an industry leader in promoting IPM adoption at both the national and 
local level for close to ten years.  The Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable 
Growers Association (WPVGA) philosophy is to invest in research, collaborate 
with diverse partners and most importantly create grower incentives for IPM 
adoption.  Through their innovative partnering with university researchers 
and the non-profit sector, WPVGA became the first in their industry to 
establish certification standards.  The developed the nation’s first 
eco-brand for potatoes (Healthy Crown), which endorses the use of IPM 
methods and wise land management for the benefit of wildlife.  In so doing, 
the WPVGA has created a meritorious market incentive program and established 
IPM standards which are modeled by other commodities and companies.  Their 
leadership is evident in their willingness to adopt novel approaches and 
test new tactics to advance IPM."