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Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Mapping the Course

7:30am            Coffee & Check-in

8:00                 Breakfast buffet

8:20               2024 Mapping the Course: Introductory Remarks

• Nicole Jacobsen, Western Forestry and Conservation Association
• Lindsay Warness, Forest Resources Association

8:30                 Opportunities and Stressors for the North American Forest Industry – Mike Buffo, Mason Bruce & Girard

9:00                Issues, Trends, and Market Forces for the Pacific Northwest Sawmill Sector – Steve Courtney, The Beck Group

9:30              The Endangered Species Act at 50 – Rob Gordon, Western Caucus Foundation 

10:00               Break

10:30           Training CTL operators and use of simulators –  Preston Green, Miller Timber

11:00              Federal Lands issues: Collaborative Management with the USFS – Keys to Success and Increased Management – Matt Comisky, American Forest Resource Council

11:30               Updates with the National Environmental Policy Act – Lawson Fite, Schwabe

12pm               Lunch  

1:00               Meet and Greet with Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez Staff  

• Sarah Kohout, District Director, Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez 
• Peter Sandifer, Grants and Outreach, Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez 

1:30                 Biden’s Mature & Old Growth – Jamie Barbour, USDA Forest Service

2:00                 Northwest Forest Plan Amendment – Scott Peets, USDA Forest Service

2:30                 Break

3:00                Washington Forest Practice Regulation Updates – Saboor Jawad, WA Dept. of Natural Resources

3:45                Oregon Private Forest Accord – Seth Barnes, OR Forest Industries Council

4:30                Overview and discussion of 2025 Carbon Workshop – The Beck Group

4:45                Wrap-up & Adjourn

5:30-7pm        Dinner Buffet and Hosted Bar

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Workforce Development Workshop

7:30am            Coffee

8:00                 Breakfast buffet

8:40                 Overview: Workforce Development Needs and Opportunities Workshop – Nicole Jacobsen, Western Forestry and Conservation Association

8:45               Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 101: Increasing Awareness in the Workplace – Marika Barto, Washington State Department of Labor & Industries 

9:30               Industry Survey: Current Efforts and Future Needs  – Kathryn Kurtz, Pacific Education Institute 

10:15               Break

10:30             Updates from WA Dept. of Natural Resources: Community Outreach and K-12  Involvement – Clare Sobetski, Washington Department of Natural Resources

11:10             Why DEI? What does it look like in the forestry industry?  – Cal Jackson, Director of Diversity Equity and Inclusion at Rayonier 

12pm               Buffet Lunch

1:30                Brainstorming / Planning / Working Group

We’ll split into groups to brainstorm aspects of program development and management, desired goals and outcomes, and implementation specifics.

3:00                 Wrap-up and Adjourn

Tuesday, June 13: Seed orchard management topics

8:00    Welcome & introductions – Jeff DeBell

8:30   Managing nutrition and irrigation for orchard health – Dan Cress

9:15   Phenology changes and orchard management – Connie Harrington

10:00   Break

10:30   Roundtable: pollen management – Sean Smith

11:00   Roundtable: orchard safety – Lauren Magalska

11:30   Roundtable: cone & seed insect control – Sara Lipow

12:00   Roundtable: crown management – Jeff DeBell

12:30   Roundtable: grafting – TBD

1:00   Lunch (provided)

2:00   Roundtable: cone induction techniques – TBD

2:30   Roundtable: cone collection – Bryan Brown / Darian Domes

3:00   Break

1:30   Regional tree seed demand and capacity issues – Brian Morris

2:15   Restoration of USFS seed orchards – Erin Baumgart

5:00   Social time

6:00-8:00   NWSOMA Group Dinner @ McMenamins in Centralia (included with registration)

Wednesday, June 14: Seed orchard tours (8am – 3pm; lunch provided)

• • Dennie Ahl Seed Orchard – U.S. Forest Service
  • Shelton Seed Orchard – Green Diamond Resource Company
  • Meridian Seed Orchard – Washington State Department of Natural Resources

Monday, July 17 

Travel day.

5:00 – 7:00 pm. Icebreaker/Social (Sleep Inn Hotel, 11 Village Drive, State College PA). Dinner on your own.

Tuesday, July 18

6:30 – 7:45 am. Continental breakfast, registration table open

8:00 – 8:20am.  Welcome – Jason Albright, Acting State Forester – Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

8:20– 9:00 am.  Growing plant material for the People by prioritizing indigenous plant production nurseries in Africa – Siyabulela Siya Sokomani, Founder, Nguni Nursery, Cape Town South Africa

9:00 – 9:20 am. Evaluating Nursery Capacity for Agroforestry in the United States. Alaina Ring, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Maine.

9:20 – 9:40 am. Challenges of nurseries and urban forestry – Alec McCartney, Nursery Manager, New Jersey State Nursery.

9:40 – 10:00. Update on resistance breeding in eastern hemlock. Rachel Kappler, Holden Forests and Gardens.

10:00-10:30 am.  Morning break.

10:30 – 10:50 am. Tree planting needs to restore watersheds in Pennsylvania. Teddi Stark. Watershed Forestry Program Manager. PA DCNR.

10:50 – 11:10 am. Growing trees and collecting seed: perspective from an urban tree nursery. Megan Palomo, Heritage Nursery Director, Trees Pittsburgh.

11:10 – 12:00 pm. Need for seed: perspectives from seed collectors: in person and Zoom panel. Calvin Ernst, President, Ernst Conservation Seeds, Inc. Christopher Kiratzis, Owner, Better Forest Tree Seeds, LLC. Eric Lovelace, Lovelace Seeds, Inc.

12:00–1:00.  Lunch.

1:00 – 1:30. Lessons learned from forest climate-adaptation projects. Denise Alving, PhD Candidate and Margot Kaye, Professor, Pennsylvania State University.

1:30 -2:00.  Ramping up seedling production of disease-resistant American chestnuts. Sara Fern Fitzsimmons, Chief Conservation Officer. The American Chestnut Foundation and Penn State University.

2:00-2:15 – Climate smart seed sourcing. Laura Leites, Professor, Penn State University.

2:15 – 2:45 pm. Introduce vendors, afternoon break.

2:45-3:05. Uses of biochar in tree nurseries. Pat Sherren, Metzler Forest Products.

3:05–3:20. Market research findings on nursery production. Harry Guinness, New Leaf.

3:20-4:00. Successes in tree planting on mineland reclamation sites in PA. Eric Oliver, Mineral Resource Program Specialist, DEP Bureau of Mining Programs, Michael French, Director of Operations, Green Forests Work.

4:00-5:00. Meeting of Northeast Nursery Association

6:00 – Dinner on your own

Wednesday, July 19: field tour

6:30 – 7:45. Breakfast

7:45 – 8:00. Board buses

8:00 – 9:00. Travel to Penn nursery

9:00 – 11:00. Tour Penn Nursery, Pennsylvania’s primary nursery for the production of bare root tree seedlings for state land in PA.

11:00 – 12:00. Travel to Howard nursery

12:00 – 12:30. Catered lunch at Howard nursery (Kitchen’s Witch)

12:30 – 1:30. Tour Howard nursery.

2:00 – 2:30. Return to hotel.

3:30 – 3:45. Bus pick up for arboretum banquet.

4:00 – 5:30. Walking tour of arboretum.

5:30 – 7:00. Banquet at arboretum

7:00 – 7:15 Bus will return to hotel.

Thursday, July 20: optional tour

6:30 – 7:45 Breakfast

8:00 – 12:00 Field tour with Denise Alvaring (climate-adapted field plantings in Stone Valley) and Sara Fitzsimmons.

The agenda will be posted as soon as it is available.

Click here to view the presentations/recordings from this conference (password required to view).

8:35  Introductory remarks – Reggie Fay, MB&G

8:45  Overview of current approaches – Reggie Fay, MB&G

9:30  Bringing remote sensing into your inventory – Peter Gould, MB&G

10:15   Break

10:30  Pitfalls of measuring site index – Dave Hamelin, Mount Hood Biometrics, LLC and Greg Johnson, Greg Johnson Biometrics, LLC

11:15  Small area estimation in forest inventory – Brian Turnquist, Green Diamond

12:00   Lunch

1:00  Survey Verification of In-Woods GNSS Accuracies for a Wide Variety of Receivers – Jacob Strunk, PNW Research Station and Thomas Broch, WA State DNR

1:45  Monitoring forest carbon fluxes and stocks with FIA: Status of Pacific Coast Forests, User Tools, and PNW Research Station’s Carbon Research Efforts – Glenn Christensen, PNW Research Station

2:30   Break

2:45  Inventory for forest carbon offsets: Design, Implementation, and Verification Considerations – Al Pancoast, SCS Global Services

3:30  Closing thoughts

4:00   Adjourn

 

Growing Pains: Scaling up the Reforestation Pipeline

Tuesday, September 19

8:45       Welcome and introductions – Diane Haase, USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR

Seed and Seedling Technology 

9:00        All That They’re Wrapped Up to Be? Successes, Setbacks, and Specific Uses of Ellepots – Nabil Khadduri, Washington Department of  Natural Resources, Webster Nursery, Olympia, WA

9:30       The Development of Ponderosa Pine Seedlings using Ellepots and Air Trays in Comparison to a Styroblock Container – Michael Gilgunn, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

10:00     Break

10:30     Adapting a Process-Based Cold Hardiness Model to Conifers for Nursery Applications – Miro Stuke, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

11:00     Interim Cold Storage Effects on Root Growth Potential of Hot-Lifted Conifer Seedlings – Steven Kiiskila, Arbutus Grove Nursery, North Saanich, BC

11:30     Seedling Stocktypes Suitable for Hot-Dry Sites – Steve Grossnickle, NurseryToForest Solutions, North Saanich, BC

12:00     Lunch

1:00        Sense and Sensor Ability: Challenges and Opportunities of Sensor Controlled Irrigation in Nursery Production – Dalyn McCauley, Oregon State University, North Willamette Research and Extension Center, Aurora, OR

1:30        Seed Transfer 2.0: Reforestation in a Changing Climate – Greg O’Neill, BC Ministry of Forests, Kalamalka Forestry Centre, Vernon, BC

2:00        Panel – Seed Migration

• • • Greg O’Neill, BC Ministry of Forests, Vernon, BC
    • Carrie Pike, USDA Forest Service, West Lafayette, IN
    • Jeff DeBell, Washington Department of Natural Resources, Olympia, WA

2:45        Break

Integrated Pest Management

3:15       Sowing Healthy Conifer Seeds of our Future Forests – Nicholas Feau, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, BC

3:45        Keys to Managing Botrytis While Ramping Up Nursery Production – Gary Chastagner, Washington State University, Puyallup, WA

4:15        Progress on New Pesticide Registrations in British Columbia – Mario Lanthier, CropHealth Advising & Research, Kelowna, BC

4:45        End of first day

 

Wednesday, September 20

8:30        Load buses and depart Kennedy School

9:30        North Willamette Research and Extension Center

The North Willamette Research and Extension Center is an agricultural research facility operated by Oregon State University, focusing on addressing challenges and providing innovative solutions for the agricultural community in the North Willamette Valley region. At NWREC, nursery research is aimed at enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of nursery operations, focusing on areas such as plant nutrition, irrigation, disease and pest management, and the development of best practices for nursery growers. Through collaborations with industry professionals and the dissemination of research findings, OSU supports the advancement of the nursery industry and provides valuable resources to help growers improve their production and management techniques.

12:00     Lunch (at NWREC)

1:00        Load buses

1:30        Weyerhaeuser Aurora Forest Nursery

The Weyerhaeuser Aurora Forest Nursery site was originally homesteaded in 1849 by the Irvin Family after coming across the country on the Oregon Trail. In the past, the site has been used for farm crops, holly, blueberries, dahlias, a slaughterhouse, and an Indian encampment. Weyerhaeuser purchased the property in in 1973 and began producing its first crop the following year. Since then, the nursery has uninterruptedly produced more than 500 million tree seedlings. The nursery expects to produce 14 million during the current season.

4:00        Load buses

4:30        Aurora Colony Vineyards and Winery

Aurora Colony Vineyards’ vines sit in a variety of sun exposures with the original 17 acres of vines facing east/west and the new 2022 vines facing north/south. The site’s soil was deposited by the glacial flow from the Missoula Floods at the end of the last ice age. The soil is sandy with very little clay, making for excellent drainage. The original 17 acres of vineyards are dry farmed, meaning they use only nature to water the vines. The 2022 vines will receive additional irrigation for 1-2 years to help them establish and then will also be dry farmed.

6:00       Dinner (at the winery)

8:00        Load buses

8:30        Arrive back at Kennedy School

 

Thursday, September 21

Outplanting Practices

8:10       Seven Years of Vegetation Management Research: Lessons Learned – Max Wightman, Washington Department of  Natural Resources, Tumwater, WA

8:40      Survival and Performance of Drought-Conditioned Seedlings Outplanted in Severely Burned Areas – Anna Ross, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

9:00        Panel: Outplanting Challenges

• • • Florian Deisenhofer – Washington Department of Natural Resources, Vancouver, WA
    • Rich Schaefer – Alpha Services, LLC, Coeur d’Alene, ID
    • Meghan Thornton – Campbell Global, Junction City, OR

Innovative Strategies

9:45        Ninety Years of Scaling Reforestation Policy, Science, and Operations:  American Forest’s Role – Past, Present, and Future – Brian Morris, American Forests, Pacific Northwest

10:15     Break

10:45     Pathways and Challenges to the Reforestation Pipeline Across Oregon’s Public and Private Lands – John Walter, Oregon Department of Forestry, Salem, OR

11:15     Who, What, Where? Seedling Production Trends and Private Nursery Investments – Harry Guinness, New Leaf Climate, New York, NY

11:45     New Reforestation Directory and Marketplace to Address Supply-Chain Challenges – Catherine Schloegel, The Nature Conservancy, Boulder, CO

12:15     Meeting Adjourns

GENERAL SCHEDULE:

Day 1 – October 8 (Sunday)

05:00 pm – 08:00 pm Reception at Ijams Nature Center

Day 2 – October 9 (Monday) Morning

08:00 am – 08:20 am Breakfast and check-in at UT Student Union Room 262

08:20 am – 08:30 am Welcome

08:30 am – 09:30 am Keynote speech (Moderator: Micky Allan) John Paul McTague – Modern methods of estimating tree and log volume, part II

09:30 am – 09:45 am Mike Strub Challenge

09:45 am – 10:20 am Break

10:20 am – 12:00 am Presentations (concurrent sessions)

General session I Room 262A (Moderator: Corey Green)

10:20 am – 10:40 am Angel Adhikari (Student) Assessment of understory vegetation

10:40 am – 11:00 am Caddis Fulford (Student) Effects of dominant tree height definition

11:00 am – 11:20 am Nasheeda Yasmin (Student) Effect of stand on soil carbon

11:20 am – 11:40 am Kamana Parajuli (Student) Crown ratio model for loblolly pine

11:40 am – 12:00 pm Noah Shephard (Student) Remotely sensed canopy dynamics

FIA special session I Room 262B (Moderator: Tom Brandeis)

10:20 am – 10:40 am Sakar Jha (Student) Evaluating H-D models for pantropical trees

10:40 am – 11:00 am Tara Skiba (Student) Evaluation of maximum stand density

11:00 am – 11:20 am Bergit Uhran (Student) Examining inaccuracies in SAE

11:20 am – 11:40 am Emmerson Chivhenge (Student) Estimating forest relative density

11:40 am – 12:00 pm Mukti Subedi Site index model for Loblolly pine

12:00 pm – 01:30 pm Lunch at UT Student Union Room 377A

Day 2 – October 9 (Monday) Afternoon

01:30 pm – 02:30 pm Presentations (concurrent sessions)

General session II Room 262A (Moderator: Dehai Zhao)

01:30 pm – 01:50 pm Surya Adhikari (Student) Aboveground biomass estimation using Lidar

01:50 pm – 02:10 pm Suveksha Jha (Student) Lidar-derived tree heights for forest models

02:10 pm – 02:30 pm Quang Cao Projecting stand basal area

General session III Room 262B (Moderator: John Young)

01:30 pm – 01:50 pm Quentin Boccaleri (Student) Impact of thinning on yield

01:50 pm – 02:10 pm Simone Lim-Hing Tornadoes in pine plantations

02:10 pm – 02:30 pm Bipana Subedi (Student) Improving precision through SAE

02:30 pm – 03:00 pm Break

03:00 pm – 04:00 pm Presentations (concurrent sessions)

General session IV Room 262A (Moderator: Bronson Bullock)

03:00 pm – 03:20 pm Thomas Lynch Big BAF sampling with a regression estimator

03:20 pm – 03:40 pm Sharad Baral Model assisted estimation of forest area

03:40 pm – 04:00 pm Dehai Zhao Deriving new models from existing models

General session V Room 262B (Moderator: Consuelo Brandeis)

03:00 pm – 03:20 pm Francis Roesch Risk-averse importance sampling

03:20 pm – 03:40 pm KaDonna Randolph Number preference as source of error

03:40 pm – 04:00 pm James Westfall Inventory nonresponse bias mitigation

06:00 pm – 08:00 pm Dinner banquet at Emilia

Day 3 – October 10 (Tuesday)

08:00 am – 08:30 am Breakfast and check-in at UT Student Union Room 262

08:30 am – 09:30 am Keynote speech (Moderator: Aaron Weiskittel) Are we missing the forest for the trees with Lidar? – Greg Johnson

09:30 am – 09:45 am Student presentation award

09:45 am – 10:20 am Break

10:20 am – 12:00 am Presentations (concurrent sessions)

General session VI Room 262A (Moderator: Krishna Poudel)

10:20 am – 10:40 am Jeff Atkins Estimating forest age using Lidar

10:40 am – 11:00 am Mike Strub Using site index to estimate height

11:00 am – 11:20 am Timothy Albaugh UAV to measure stand characteristics

11:20 am – 11:40 am Corey Green Tree list model comparison

11:40 am – 12:00 pm Mingliang Wang Further development of Clutter-Jones model

FIA special session II Room 262B (Moderator: Phil Radtke)

10:20 am – 10:40 am Consuelo Brandeis Spatial distribution of roundwood volume

10:40 am – 11:00 am Shelbie Hardy Methods to identify non-response on TPO surveys

11:00 am – 11:20 am Todd Schroeder Using repeat NAIP data to estimate growth

11:20 am – 11:40 am Qianqian Cao SAE of county-level biomass

11:40 am – 12:00 pm Krishna Poudel Estimating county-level forest attributes

12:00 pm – 01:30 pm Lunch at UT Student Union Room 377A

01:30 pm – 02:30 pm Business meeting

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Keynote speaker: Greg Johnson

Presentation title: Are we missing the forest for the trees with Lidar?

About Greg: After receiving an MSc in Forest Biometrics from Oregon State University, Greg held a number of research, technical services, and biometrics positions at International Paper, Willamette Industries, and finally Weyerhaeuser. At Weyerhaeuser he capped his 40+ year career by forming and leading its Advanced Forestry Systems team, focused on Biometrics, Operations Research, Remote Sensing (including lidar), Statistics, and Wood Science. Greg and teams he led developed several growth models in use by the companies he worked for and participated directly in lidar-based inventory systems design and implementation.

The abstract for Greg’s talk is:

Remote sensing has played a role in forest inventory for decades and that role is rapidly evolving. Our experience with it has ranged from disastrous failures to important achievements in cost reduction, accuracy improvement, and variance reduction. It is easy to imagine that these advancements will continue and perhaps accelerate. We are going to take a journey into the future and look at how remote sensing, and especially lidar and related technologies, will change how we think about forest inventory, the way we describe our forests, how we project their growth and development, and report standing and future products and conditions. Along the way, we will explore some technology and information gaps to be bridged on our journey (a jobs program for current and future mensurationists and biometricians!). Will stands exist? Will we have tree lists in our inventory databases? What will forest sampling mean? Will our existing permanent plot data be useful? Will we wake up from a bad dream or a bright new future? Get ready to suspend belief for a few minutes and explore.

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Keynote speaker: Dr. John Paul McTague

Presentation title: Modern Methods of Estimating Tree and Log Volume, Part II 

About Dr. McTague: Dr. McTague currently resides in Florida pursuing his interests in biometrics as Manager of Southern Cross Biometrics LLC and as adjunct faculty in Forest Biometrics at the University of Georgia and North Carolina State University. Dr. McTague’s storied career started with a BS degree from SUNY-ESF, a MF degree in Forest Economics from Yale and a PhD in Forest Biometrics and Quantitative Forest Management from the University of Georgia. His professional career spans the continents of North and South America, where he has held managing/director positions for multiple multinational forest management firms. Dr. McTague also instructed at Northern Arizona University for twelve years; publishing growth and yield models for the ponderosa pine, mixed-conifer, and spruce-fir forest types.

The abstract for John’s talk is:

Two major themes of the 1993 IUFRO Conference, entitled ‘Modern Methods of Estimating Tree and Log Volume’ are re-examined. Heavily focused on Importance Sampling, Control-Variate Sampling, and Centroid Sampling, several papers of 1993 Conference demonstrated how much a 3rd measurement (three-point system) can improve the estimate of volume. The Souter SE-282 taper model directly incorporates a 3rd measurement into the profile equation and displays yet further improvement for loblolly pine volume estimation. Returning to early solid of revolution derivations of Pressler and Hossfeldt, which directly incorporate stem form into the volume formula, further precision is attained. The second major theme of the 1993 IUFRO was directed to determining the optimal location of the 3rd or multiple upper-stem measurements. Jim Flewelling’s additive adjustment to upper-stem predictions, based on one or multiple observed upper-stem measurements, is particularly relevant 30 years later with the availability of terrestrial LiDAR instruments. Finally, the presentation will examine how auxiliary information that is readily available during routine timber cruises, can be used to enhance volume estimation. The Southern Pine Volume and Weight Consortium collects sample trees from measured forest plots, thus affording the development of expressions for volume and taper that utilize the stand-level variables of age, relative spacing, thinning status, and tree ranking (dbh/dq).

8:00    Introduction and Welcome – Joel Fields, IERC Chair and Technical Sales Representative, Wilbur-Ellis Company

8:15    MaxSDI and Site-Species Relationships across the Pacific Northwest: Implications for Future Forest Carrying Capacity – Mark Kimsey, Research Associate Professor of Forestry Resources, University of Idaho

9:00    Protect your seedling investment with Trico Pro – Mark Boardman CF, Western Region Technical Field Expert, Kwizda North America

9:45   Forest regeneration and development patterns in the Mt. St. Helens blast zone: recent observations from the Uplands Permanent Sample Plot system – Mark Swanson, Associate Director, WSU School of the Environment

10:30   Break

11:00   Regen Mapper web based tool and how it can help reforestation efforts – Zachary Holden, Research scientist, Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS)

11:30   Glyphosate Environmental Chemistry & Exposure Assessment – Allan Felsot, Washington State University

12:15    Lunch

1:30    Fungal Foes: confronting root disease in the Northern Region– Sean Wright, Plant Pathologist, Forest Service

2:15   Seedling stocking types for hot dry sites – Steven C. Grossnickle, PhD, NurseryToForest Solutions

3:15  New Innovations in Chemical Forest Vegetation Management – Ed Fredrickson, Thunder Road Resources

4:00   Adjourn

4:00 – 5:00    IESAF Annual Meeting – adjacent room after IERC meeting concludes – more details to come

5:00    Reception

Agenda

7:00     Registration
8:00     Welcome
8:05     The Story of Select Seed: 25 years of Collaboration, Propagation and Pollination – Brian T. Barber
9:05    Climate Adaptation in Western Larch: Informing Assisted Migration and Breeding for Future Climates – Beth Roskilly
10:05     Break
10:35     Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change: Diverse Approaches to Ensure Goods from the Woods – Justin Crotteau
11:35     Western Larch Species Group Report – Kelsie Grover
11:45     Western White Pine Species Group Report – Don Patterson
12:00     Lunch
1:00    Enhancing Seedling Outplanting Performance with Nursery Cultural Practices – Jeremy Pinto
2:00     Projected Impacts of a Warming Climate on Inland Conifers – Don Patterson
3:00     Break
3:20    Seed Orchards as Laboratories for Understanding Variability in Tree Physiological Function – Henry Adams
4:05     Seed Supply Working Group Reports – Marc L. Rust
4.45     Wrap-up & Adjourn

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Speakers

Brian Barber, CEO, Select Seed Co. Ltd.
The Story of Select Seed: 25 years of Collaboration, Propagation and Pollination

Beth Roskilly, Research Geneticist, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station
Climate Adaptation in Western Larch: Informing Assisted Migration and Breeding for Future Climates

Justin Crotteau, Research Forester, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change: Diverse Approaches to Ensure Goods from the Woods

Jeremy Pinto, Research Plant Physiologist, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
Enhancing Seedling Outplanting Performance with Nursery Cultural Practices

Don Patterson, Inventory/GIS Manager, Stimson Lumber Company
Projected Impacts of a Warming Climate on Inland Conifers

Henry Adams, Associate Professor, Washington State University School of the Environment
Seed Orchards as Laboratories for Understanding Variability in Tree Physiological Function