Meeting at a Glance
Registration	$275
	$300 - After April 11
	$325 - On Site
Lodging	$94 + 9% tax

Annual Conference
May 4 - 8, 2008
Cody, WY

In 1919, eleven states, the Territory of Hawaii, the Canadian Province of British Columbia and the Mexico District of Lower California met and organized the Western Plant Board for the purpose of discussing and developing uniformity in conducting plant protection work. The Western Plant Board later grew to its current size. The remaining states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico were organized into three separate regional plant boards in 1925. The National Plant Board was created the same year.

Purposes of the National Plant Board as stated in its Articles of Incorporation include:

1. To provide national representation for the Eastern Plant Board, the Southern Plant Board, the Central Plant Board, and the Western Plant Board, and to receive, consider and implement to the extent possible, all regional plant board recommendations.

2. To foster effective and harmonized plant health programs; to act as an information clearinghouse on plant pest prevention and regulatory matters; to provide for a discussion of principles, policies and methods; and to make recommendations to the regional boards for the promotion of efficiency, harmony and uniformity in and among the states in the field of plant pest prevention and regulation.

3. To collaborate and communicate effectively with public and private agencies and organizations on plant health and plant pest regulatory issues which affect the states.

4. To protect agriculture, horticulture, forestry, and the environment on state, national and international levels.