2023 Inland Empire Tree Improvement Cooperative (IETIC) Annual Meeting

7:00   Registration
8:00   Welcome
8:05   The Texas Tree Improvement Two-Step: Using Your Past to Guide Your Future – Fred Raley, Texas A&M Forest Service
9:05   Pining for Home: Seed Transfer 2.0 – Greg O’Neill, British Columbia Ministry of Forests
10:05   Break
10:35   Hot topics – Genomics and Climate-based Seed Deployment Research by the Pacific Northwest Tree Improvement Research Cooperative – Glenn Howe, Oregon State University
11:35   Western Larch Species Group Report – Kelsie Grover
11:45   Western White Pine Species Group Report – Don Patterson
12:00   Lunch
1:00   Low Carbs aren’t for Trees: the Link between Non‐structural Carbohydrate Storage and Plant Water Relations – Anna Sala, University of Montana
2:00   Happy Trees, Happy Seed – Seed Orchard Psychology 101 – Kat Spencer, British of Columbia Ministry of Forests
3:00   Break
3:20   Title Pending – Vovener Edmond, University of Idaho
3:50   Russell H. Hudson Tree Improvement Award for Excellence – Student Experience – Sarah Larson, University of Idaho
4:05   Seed Supply Working Group Reports – Marc L. Rust