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Tuesday, January 20,
2004 (Doubletree Hotel)
2:00 PM Registration
opens
5:00-5:15
Welcome
and introductory remarks
Tom Adams, Head, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State
University
5:15-6:45 Introductory
keynotes
Keynotes Moderator: Steve Hobbs, Associate Dean, College of Forestry,
Oregon State University
6:45-9:00 Reception
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 (Oregon Convention Center, Oregon Ballroom)
7:00-8:00 Continental
breakfast
8:00-11:40 Wood productivity and quality
issues in intensive plantation management
8:00-8:10 Moderator's
introduction
Norm Johnson, Professor, Department of Forest Resources, Oregon
State University
8:10-8:55
Plantation
productivity under current intensive silvicultural practices:
results from research and operations
Cheryl Talbert, Director of Forestry, Weyerhaeuser Company
Western Timberlands
8:55-9:40
Extrapolation
of short-term research and operational results to long-term
yield forecasts
David Marshall, Research Forester, USFS, Pacific Northwest Research
Station
Eric Turnblom, Associate Professor of Forest Biometrics, College of
Forest Resources, University of Washington
9:40-10:25
Comparison
of yields under various intensities of plantation management
and alternative silvicultural systems
Doug Maguire, Edmund Hayes Professor of Silviculture Alternatives,
Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University
David Hann, Professor of Biometrics, Department of Forest Resources,
Oregon State University
10:25- 10:55 Break
10:55-11:40
Producing
wood of specific quality for designated end uses
Barbara Gartner, Associate Professor, Wood Anatomy and Quality,
Department of Wood Science and Engineering, Oregon State University
Dan Newton, Manager, Land and Timber, Roseburg Forest Products
Russ McKinley, Timberlands Manager, Western Oregon, Boise Cascade
Corporation
11:40-12:10 Keynote
- The one big thing (Philosophical perspectives on intensively
managed plantations)
Kathleen Moore, Distinguised Professor of Philosophy, Department
of Philosophy, Oregon State University
12:10-1:10 Lunch
1:10-4:50
Economic costs and benefits of intensively managed plantations
1:10-1:20 Moderator's
introduction
Glen Murphy, Professor, Department of Forest Engineering, Oregon
State University
1:20-2:05
What
does it take for plantation forestry to compete in a global
market? Lessons for the Pacific Northwest from 100 years of
New Zealand Plantation Forestry.
W. R. J. Sutton, Plantation Focus Limited, Rotorua, New Zealand
2:05-2:50 Economics
of intensive plantation forestry in the Pacific Northwest -
a corporate perspective
Denny Hill, Portfolio Manager, The Campbell Group
2:50-3:35
Economics
of intensive plantation forestry in the Pacific Northwest
- a non-industrial private woodland owner perspective
Charles Chambers, Private Woodland Owner, Forest Biometrician
and Owner of West Mason Consulting, Shelton, Washington
3:35-4:05 Break
4:05-4:50 Strategic
economic role of intensive plantation forests in a company's portfolio
of investments - panel
Clark
Binkley, Managing Director and CIO, Hancock Timber Resources
Group
David
New, Vice President, Timberland Resources, Boise Cascade Corporation
Dennis
Creel, Timberlands Manager, Hampton Affiliates
4:50-5:20 Keynote
-
Lessons from intensive agriculture
Fred Kirschenmann, Director, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture,
Iowa State University
Thursday, January 22,
2004 (Oregon Convention Center, Oregon Ballroom)
7:00-8:00 Continental
breakfast
8:00-11:40
Environmental consequences of intensively managed plantations
8:00-8:10 Moderator's
introduction
Steve Radosevich, Professor, Department of Forest Science, Oregon
State University
8:10-8:40 Management
techniques used in intensively managed plantations of the Pacific
Northwest and their environmental consequences - an overview
Robert Powers, Principal Silviculturist and Science Team Leader,
USFS, Pacific Southwest Research Station
8:40-9:10 Impact
of intensive plantation management on soil and water quality
Stephen Schoenholtz, Associate Professor, Forest Hydrology and
Soils, Department of Forest Engineering, Oregon State University
9:10-9:40 Impacts
of intensive plantation management on biodiversity within stands
John Hayes, Professor, Wildlife Biology, Department of Forest Science,
Oregon State University
9:40-10:10 Environmental
consequences of concentrating wood production in intensively
managed plantations versus more dispersed, less intensive management
practices across the landscape - operational considerations
Glen Murphy, Professor, Forest Operations Analysis, Department
of Forest Engineering, Oregon State University
Dean Berg, Silviculture Engineering, Edmonds, Washington
10:10-10:40 Break
10:40-11:10 Biodiversity
consequences of wood production in intensively managed plantations
versus dispersed, low intensity management across the landscape
Mitch Hartley, Forest and Wildlife Ecologist, Audubon Society,
New York
11:10-11:40 Impacts of Intensively managed plantations -environmentalist
perspective
Chuck Willer, Executive Director, Coast Range Association, Corvallis,
Oregon
11:40-12:30 Lunch
12:30-3:40
Social issues/concerns
12:30-12:40 Moderator's
introduction
Glenn Howe, Assistant Professor, Department of Forest Science,
Oregon State University
12:40-1:25 People,
politics, and public acceptance of plantation forestry
Bruce Shindler, Associate Professor, Department of Forest Resources,
Oregon State University
Eric Hansen, Associate Professor and Extension Forest Marketing Specialist,
Department of Wood Science and Engineering, Oregon State University
1:25-2:25 Social
considerations in decision making about intensive plantation
forestry
Denise Lach, Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Center for Water
and Environmental Sustainability, Oregon State University
Michael Mosman, Vice President, Resources, Port Blakely Tree Farms,
L.P.
2:25-2:40 Break
2:40-3:10 The
policies and politics governing plantation management
Ben Cashore, Assistant Professor, Sustainable Forest Policy,
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies t>
3:10-3:40 Influences
of politics and legislation on intensive plantation forestry
Ward Armstrong, Director, Executive Seminar Program, Portland
State University
3:40-4:00
Closing
Remarks
Tom Adams, Head, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University
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