| Section Seven: Miscellaneous |
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| Employee training |
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Staff members have taken advantage of a variety of training opportunities such as: SAIFer driving, export certification, ICS 100, 200 & 700, administrative rules, pesticide applicator and consultant licensing, and meth alert (warning signs). In addition, staff have attended a variety of professional society meetings including the Oregon Vegetation Management Association, CAPS, Entomological Society of America, Western Horticultural Inspectors Society, and Western Plant Board. Employee training, continuing education and career development remain a high priorities of the Plant Division
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| Oregon Invasive Species Council |
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Plant Division Administrator, Dan Hilburn, has served on the Oregon Invasive Species Council since it was created in 2002. Shannon Brubaker, our Office Manager, provides administrative support for the council. Information about the council and its activities in 2005 is available online in the council’s annual report card: <oregon.gov/OISC>
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| Ginseng |
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Since 1997, the Plant Division has administered a small Ginseng Management Program. The purpose of the program is to allow Oregon-grown, cultivated ginseng to be certified for export. Licensed growers are supplied with certificates of origin and can self-certify their ginseng crop. Though, the number of licensees has shrunk to only a handful in recent years and we have not been able to fill seats on the Ginseng Advisory Committee, we will continue to provide service to the growers that need it
Chart: Number of licensed ginseng growers
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| ODA Plant Division web page |
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In 2005, the Plant Division Web page was maintained and updated by a team of five staff members; Kerri Schwarz, Jo Davis, Bonnie Rasmussen, Lisa Rehms, and Shannon Brubaker. The team continued efforts toward migration to the new <oregon.gov> format, added new pages and continued looking for new ways to bring our programs to the public. Also, in 2005 Shannon Brubaker took on the added responsibility of content management for the Oregon Invasive Species Council <oregon.gov/OISC>. There are many new and exciting ideas to be implemented in 2006. Stay tuned.
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| Federal permits and compliance agreements |
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In 2005, Plant Division staff reviewed 88 PPQ 526 applications to import live plant pests or noxious weeds. Seventeen of those applications were for butterflies. Four permits to import soil and four federal compliance agreements were also reviewed. Thirty-three biotech permits or notifications for genetically modified crops were also reviewed.
Chart: Number of federal permits reviewed
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