IPM Institute News: IPM in the Marketplace
March 2007
Volume 8 Issue No. 2
Contents
I. Learn
How to Reduce Pest
Problems and Pesticide Use in Public
Facilities at April 18 Workshop in Los Angeles
II.
March
23 Open Conference Call: City and County of San Francisco’s Road
to IPM and Environmental Stewardship
III.
Two US
Army Facilities Join IPM STAR
Ranks
IV.
Join the IPM Institute Today!
I. Learn
How to Reduce Pest
Problems and Pesticide Use in Public
Facilities at April 18 Workshop in Los Angeles
Interested
in reducing pests and pesticide use in your facility?
A new, full-day workshop promises a wealth of information
from proven performers.
Dr.
Albert Greene brings twenty years of experience managing pest
control contracts for federal buildings to the workshop.
Al has meticulously documented an 89% reduction in pest
complaints and 93% reduction in pesticide use during his tenure as
regional entomologist at the
US
General Services Agency.
Al
achieved these numbers by carefully constructing a bid process and
specification for service providers, developing contract language
focused on results and providing competent oversight.
He will share his expertise and model documents and
procedures with workshop participants.
Luis Agurto of PESTEC has provided IPM
services to the City and County
of
San Francisco
since 1996. PESTEC’s
newest staff addition is “Ladybug,” a trained bed bug
detection dog now working to identify bed bug harborages in
shelters, hotels and other facilities.
Ladybug earns her keep by generating savings in time and
material vs. inspecting or treating all potential harborages,
whether active or not.
Workshop tracks will address both purchasing and delivering
proven, high performance Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
approaches. Facility
managers, and buyers and providers of structural pest management
services are encouraged to attend.
Additional instructors include pest
management professionals from national and regional firms who have
successfully partnered with schools, municipal and county
governments, health care facilities, food processing and
distribution plants and the hospitality and entertainment
industries to deliver high quality services with a minimum of
pesticide use.
The event will be held at the
Radisson Wilshire in Los Angeles
on
April 18, 2007. Course fee of $75
includes binder with information materials, lunch and
refreshments. Register
by email to info@ipminstitute.org,
calling
(608)
232-1410 or faxing or mailing in the registration
form.
This
conference is offered by the IPM Institute of
North America
and sponsored by the City of Los Angeles, City of Santa
Monica, Ecolab Pest Elimination Services, Innovative Pest Management of
El Segundo, Orkin Commercial Services, PESTEC, the University
of
California IPM Program, the USDA
Western
Region IPM
Center, and Warner Bros. Studios.
II.
March 23 Open
Conference Call: City and County of San
Francisco’s Road to IPM and Environmental Stewardship
Interested
in learning more about how your state, county or municipality can
reduce pest and pesticide hazards through IPM?
Join
us for a conference call with Chris Geiger, IPM program manager
for the San Francisco City/County IPM program.
Geiger
will explain San Francisco's
unique approaches including the use of goats and weed-flamers on
county property. Efforts also include an annual workshop featuring
regional and national experts, monthly “technical advisory
meetings” among city agency staff responsible for pest
management, and systematic ranking and selection of pesticide
options for minimal impacts.
The
program was the first of its kind in California
and
has served as a model for government agencies nationwide.
The
one-hour call is scheduled for 11
a.m.
Central Time on March 23. Call
605
990-0001, enter password 165144 followed by the # sign. Note: This is not a
toll-free number. You will incur your normal long-distance charges
for a call to the 605 area code.
Please
email us if you plan to
participate. Pre-registration is not required, but your intentions
will be helpful to manage the number of lines needed.
III.
Two
US
Army
Facilities Join IPM STAR
Ranks
The
Army’s commitment to safe and healthy environments for the
children of troops and staff achieved another milestone this month
with IPM STAR
Certification of Aberdeen
Proving Ground Child and Youth Services Programs and Fort
Lewis.
These facilities are the sixth and seventh Army programs to
be certified, joining a total of 21 IPM STAR
certified school systems nationally, and impacting more than
2 million school children.
Army
Child Development and Youth Service centers benefit from monthly
inspections of food service areas by Preventive Medicine
professional staff, careful annual facility maintenance
evaluations and regular inspection by pest management technicians.
Aberdeen Child and Youth Services program began their IPM approach
in 1988, when Abdul Sheikh became installation pest management
coordinator. Since
then, no spray-applied pesticides have been used in the
facilities’ four centers, in favor of a preventive approach that
includes careful inspection to identify and correct conditions
that might give pests access to the buildings, or to food and
water.
Fort
Lewis
is broadly
committed to the environment; current goals include reducing water
consumption by 50% by 2025 and continuing a spotted owl management
plan for timber cutting and sales on post.
For more information on the Army sustainability initiative
including Fort
Lewis
programs, see http://www.sustainability.army.mil/news/success.cfm.
IPM
STAR
Certification is
offered in partnership with the US EPA Pesticide Environmental
Stewardship Program. Participation
by Army facilities in IPM STAR
is supported by
the US Army Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for
Installation Management and the US Army Environmental Center.
IPM
STAR
on
the Web.
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