National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations - 2010

Abstract

These proceedings are a compilation of 25 papers that were presented at the regional meetings of the forest and conservation nursery associations and the Intertribal Nursery Council meeting in the United States in 2010. The Joint Meeting of the Southern Forest Nursery Association and Northeastern Forest and Conservation Nursery Association was held at the Peabody Hotel in Little Rock, Arkansas on July 26 to 29, 2010. Subject matter for the technical sessions included marketing strategies, tree improvement programs, nursery certification, fumigation updates, and insect and disease management. Field trips included afternoon tours of the ArborGen Nursery in Bluff City, AR, Baucum Nursery in North Little Rock, AR, and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Small Farm Outreach Lonoke Site. The Joint Meeting of the Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association and Forest Nursery Association of British Columbia: Target Seedling Symposium-2010 was held at the Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel in Portland, OR, on August 24 to 26, 2010. Subject matter for the technical sessions included the target seedling, seed handling, seedling nutrition, seedling culturing, pest management, nursery research and new technology, and general nursery topics. Afternoon field trips included tours of Blooming Nursery in Cornelius, OR, PRT container nursery in Hubbard, OR, and IFA bareroot nursery in Canby, OR. The Intertribal Nursery Council Meeting was held at the Medallion Hotel in Arlington, WA, on September 21 to 23, 2010. The meeting was hosted by the BankSavers Nursery, owned by the Stillaguamish Tribe, in Arlington. Subject matter for the technical sessions included native plant production for fisheries restoration, the use of small native plant nurseries in cultural and conservation education, energy conservation and alternative energy sources in nurseries, and the effects of climate change on nursery production. A short workshop on native plant nursery fertilization was also given. Afternoon field trips included tours of the BankSavers Nursery and Buffalo farm, a tour of Pilchuck Park Wetland Mitigation project, and a tour of the Stillaguamish Tribal Fish Hatchery.

Titles contained within National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations - 2010

• Forests and forestry in Arkansas during the last two centuries
• Weyerhaeuser in Arkansas
• Panel discussion: Marketing hardwoods at the George O. White State Forest Nursery
• Who pays for tree improvement?
• Historical forest seedling production in the southern United States: 2008 to 2009 planting season
• What's new with nurseries and reforestation projects at the Missoula Technology and Development Center?
• Update on soil fumigation: MBr alternatives and reregistration decisions
• Rehabilitating Afghanistan's natural resources
• The use of Proline (Prothioconazole) to control pitch canker, Rhizoctonia foliage blight, and Fusiform rust in forest seedling nurseries and efforts to acquire registration
• The target plant concept-a history and brief overview
• Producing the target seed: Seed collection, treatment, and storage
• Morphology targets: What do seedling morphological attributes tell us?
• Seedling root targets
• Repetitive Reaction and Restitution (R3) induction of drought hardiness in conifer container seedlings
• Seedling mineral nutrition, the root of the matter
• The role of plant water relations in achieving and maintaining the target seedling
• Provenance variability in nursery growth of subalpine fir
• Targeting hardwoods
• Seedling phenology and cold hardiness: Moving targets
• Nursery cultural practices to achieve targets: A case study in western larch irrigation
• Using essential oils to control moss and liverwort in containers
• Tissue culture of conifer seedlings-20 years on: Viewed through the lens of seedling quality
• Outplanting strategies-GRO TRZ Consulting Incorporated
• Target seedling strategies for intensively managed plantations in the Oregon Coast Range
• Shrub-steppe species germination trials and survival after outplanting on bare soils

Citation

Riley, L. E; Haase, D. L.; Pinto, J. R., tech. coords. 2011. National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations - 2010. Proc. RMRS-P-65. Fort Collins, CO: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.183 p. Available at: http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_p065.html.