RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC -The Southeast Agriculture & Forestry Energy Resources Alliance (SAFER) and the Southern Alliance for the Utilization of Biomass Resources (SAUBR) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that joins the two organizations. With the common goal of advancing the use of biomass resources in the South, the leadership of both SAFER and SAUBR agreed to leverage their resources through a unified alliance. As of March 1, 2008 SAUBR officially folded into SAFER.
The year 2009 marks the 160th anniversary since Martin Faustmann published the seminal paper “Berechnung des Werthes, welchen Waldboden, sowie noch nicht haubare Holzbest\xc3\xa4nde für die Waldwirthschaft besitzen” – “Calculation of the Value which Forest Land and Immature Stands Possess for Forestry”. This paper stands as an icon both for forest economics and capital theory.
Hosted by the University of Florida/IFAS School of Forest Resources and Conservation, will be held at the University of Florida, J. Wayne Reitz Union in Gainesville, Florida.
The 13th Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources is going to be held in Charleston, SC from Tuesday, May 26, 2009 through Friday, May 29, 2009.
Educators, policymakers, forestry and natural resource professionals and others interested in forest and agricultural biomass issues and opportunities will want to attend the “Status, Trends, and Future of the South's Forest and Agricultural Biomass” conference on August 29-31 at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education in Athens.
The winner of the 2009 Innovator Award from the Southern Growth Policies Board is "NC Woody Biomass" by North Carolina State University Extension Forestry.
The USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station has recently released a compendium of works from the 2001 Southern Forest Science Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia.
We are pleased to be able to send you a notification and call for abstracts of papers or posters for a forthcoming meeting organized by our colleagues at North Carolina State University and the USDA Forest Service. The conference website is www.ncsu.edu/feop/iufro_plantations.
The 2008 SAF National Conference will be held November 5 - 9, 2008 in Reno, Nevada.
