NEW: Videos of presentations by E.O. Wilson and Reed Noss online. For conference videos and powerpoints please click here.
Global climate change is affecting our ecosystems. Regulation and market forces are changing the sources used to meet our energy needs. Industrial divestiture, intergenerational estate transfers, and the land trust movement are changing the face of forest ownership. An increasing awareness that forests provide a multitude of ecosystem values beyond their extractive values is changing how managers approach forest management.| This is an exciting time in forestry. New markets are poised to expand goods and services from the forest and fund new management options. For the first time in a generation, restoration efforts have increased longleaf pine acreage across its range and strategies to continue this trend and restore ecosystem function are still being developed. But with these exciting changes come challenges. How will new markets for forests products affect ecosystem function? Will carbon sequestration and biomass production be a boon to native forest restoration or another extractive pressure? | - Keynote addresses by renowned speakers Edward O. Wilson and Reed Noss
- Longleaf restoration field tours at Nokuse Plantation and Eglin Air Force Base
- First draft of the Range-Wide Conservation Plan for Longleaf Pine
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Join us as we discuss the state of the science and policy on the role of forests in general and longleaf in particular in adapting to and impacting these shifts. A slate of excellent speakers is being assembled and the audience promises to be informed and enthusiastic. Topics will include: - The silvics of carbon sequestration.
- The role of climate change in species migration and forest pest populations.
- The role of prescribed fire in forest management.
- The shift to forest biomass for energy and its implications on the forest.
- The unveiling of the first draft of the Range-Wide Conservation Plan for Longleaf Pine.
- Restoring the Longleaf ecosystem, not just the overstory!
- Understanding and addressing issues facing migrant forestry workers.
- The role of partnerships to preserve landscape values.
- An update on the search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
- Presentations and field tours with some of the country’s driving forces behind ecosystem restoration and ecological forestry.
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