National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations-2007

Abstract

These proceedings are a compilation of the papers that were presented at the regional meetings of the forest and conservation nursery associations in the United States and Canada in 2007. The Northeastern Forest and Conservation Nursery Association meeting was held July 16 to 19 at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord, NH. The meeting was hosted by the New Hampshire State Forest Nursery. Subject matter for the technical sessions included seed collection, handling, and storage, soil management, seedling nutrition, disease management, and fumigation alternatives. Field trips included an afternoon tour of the New Hampshire State Forest Nursery in Boscawen, NH, and a full day tour of the White Mountain National Forest, including timber management and wilderness projects across the Kancamagus Highway, and Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. The combined meeting of the Forest Nursery Association of British Columbia and the Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association was held at the Mary Winspear Centre in Sidney, BC, on September 17 to 19. The meeting was hosted by the Forest Nursery Association of British Columbia. Subject matter for the technical sessions included global climate change, business practices and marketing, forest nursery practices, nursery technology, disease management, and labor management. An afternoon field trip included tours of the Arbutus Grove Nursery Limited, Eurosa Gardens Limited, and Church and State Wines on the Saanich Peninsula.

Titles contained within National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations-2007

• Some thoughts about tree planting and nursery culture in New Hampshire
• Diagnosing plant problems
• Comments on alternatives to methyl bromide for quarantine purposes in forest nurseries
• Relating seed treatments to nursery performance: Experience with southern pines
• Methyl isothiocyanate and chloropicrin concentrations in bareroot forest nursery soils and above soil surface treatments following fumigation
• Tree seed handling, processing, testing, and storage at Hayward State Nursery, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
• Seed storage and testing at Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Penn Nursery and Wood Shop
• Seed storage and testing procedures used at Saratoga Tree Nursery, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
• Soils and nutrition: A forest nursery perspective
• Performance of nutrient-loaded red oak and white oak seedlings on mine lands in southern Indiana
• Effects of fall fertilization on morphology and cold hardiness of red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) seedlings
• Climate change, forests, and the forest nursery industry
• Building trust-business essentials
• Enhancing forest nursery education: Input from the 2007 Joint Meeting of the Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association and Forest Nursery Association of British Coumbia
• What's in your Douglas-fir bark?
• Effects of container size and copper treatment on western white pine seedling growth and survival
• Fusarium species-a British Columbia perspective in forest seedling production
• Physiological responses of planting frozen and thawed Douglas-fir seedlings
• Somatic embryogenesis tissue culture for applying varietal forestry to conifer species
• Gene activity test determines cold tolerance in Douglas-fir seedlings
• Deployment of deer-resistant western redcedar (Thuja plicata)
• Marketing: The roots of your business
• Recent workforce trends and their effects on the silviculture program in British Columbia

Citation

Dumroese, R. K.; Riley, L. E., tech. coords. 2008. National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations-2007. Proc. RMRS-P-57. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 174 p.