CONTENTS
Panel Discussion: Critical Use Exemption for
Methyl Bromide
John Godbehere, Ken McNab, and George Hernandez**
SOUTHERN FOREST NURSERY ASSOCIATION
AND THE NORTHEASTERN FOREST AND
CONSERVATION NURSERY ASSOCIATION
Nursery Accreditation
Robert P. Karrfalt ................................................................. 43
July 15–18, 2002
DoubleTree Hotel and Conference Center,
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Nursery Projects at the Missoula Technology and
Development Center
Andy Trent and Brian Vachowski .......................................... 47
Top 10 Statements That Persuaded You to Become a
Nursery Manager
Steve Gilly ............................................................................... 3
RNGR Web Site Update
J Bryan Jordin**
Producing High-Quality Slash Pine Seeds
James Barnett and Sue Varela .............................................. 52
Florida and Florida Forests: A Sense of Place
Wayne H. Smith ...................................................................... 4
The History of Fumigation at Andrews Nursery
Steve Gilly**
Determining Seed Transfer Guidelines for
Southern Pines
Ron C. Schmidtling ................................................................. 8
The Target Seedling Concept—A Tool for
Better Communication Between Nurseries and
Their Customers
Thomas D. Landis ................................................................. 12
WESTERN FOREST AND CONSERVATION
NURSERY ASSOCIATION AND THE
FOREST NURSERY ASSOCIATION OF
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Morphological Differences of the Root
System of Bareroot and Container Longleaf Pine
after Outplanting
Bill Pickens and Tim Howell ................................................. 17
August 5–8, 2002
West Coast Hotel
Olympia, Washington
Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center
Update
Charles Michler**
Forest Nurseries in Finland
Marja Poteri .......................................................................... 59
Environmental Impacts of Nurseries
Marja-Liisa Juntunen ........................................................... 64
Nutsedge (Cyperus spp.) Eradiation: Impossible Dream?
Ted M. Webster ...................................................................... 21
Assimilation Lighting for Greenhouses
John W. Bartok Jr .................................................................. 74
EPA Pesticide Update
Paul Guillebeau**
Copper-Coated Containers and Their Impact on the
Environment
Mark A. Crawford ................................................................. 76
Stunting of Southern Pine Seedlings by a Needle
Nematode (Longidorus sp.)
Michelle M. Cram, Stephen W. Fraedrich, and Jeff Fields ....... 26
Phytotoxicity with Metam Sodium
Robert J. Buzzo ..................................................................... 79
Hardening Fertilization and Nutrient Loading of Conifer
Seedlings
R. Kasten Dumroese .............................................................. 31
Ecophysiological Response of Douglas-fir
Seedlings to Polymer-Coated Fertilizers
Douglass F. Jacobs, Robin Rose, and Diane L. Haase ........... 84
Incorporating Controlled-release Fertilizer
Technology into Outplanting
Douglass F. Jacobs, Robin Rose, and Diane L. Haase ........... 37
A History of Transplanting
Thomas D. Landis and John R. Scholtes ................................. 89
**No papers received; for more information contact authors at the addresses provided in the list of attendees.
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Seedling Inventory Tracking
John Kitchen ........................................................................ 139
Root Physiology and Phenology: the Key to
Transplanting Success
Gary A. Ritchie ...................................................................... 98
Managing Crop Uniformity in Weyerhaeuser Nurseries
Erin Wallich and Tom Stevens ............................................ 144
Producing Quality Transplant Seedlings: Bareroot to
Bareroot and Container to Bareroot
Tim Crockett ........................................................................ 105
Open-Pollinated Family Management in Nurseries
William C. Carlson .............................................................. 151
Bareroot to Bareroot and Container to Bareroot
Transplanting
Dan Timmer**
Fall Planting in Northern California
Ed Fredrickson .................................................................... 159
Tree Seedling Transplanters
Keith Windell (Presented by Brian Vachowski) .................... 108
Travels Among The Gwich’in
Bert Gildart and Jane Gildart ............................................. 162
Aspects to Make Plug-to-Plug Transplanting a Success
Steve Pelton ......................................................................... 117
Study Cases of Native Plant Projects for Mapuche
Communities in the Southern Region of Chile
Paz Ovalle A., Zoia Neira C., and Patricio Nuñez M. .......... 165
Container-to-Container Transplanting: Operations
and Equipment
John W. Bartok Jr. ............................................................... 124
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Combined Meeting of the Southern Forest Nursery
Association and the Northeastern Forest and
Conservation Nursery Associations .............................. 175
RIMS, a Reforestation Information Management
System
Diane S. Rudeen ................................................................. 127
Combined Meeting of the Western Forest and
Conservation Nursery Association and the Forest
Nursery Association of British Columbia ..................... 180
The Nursery Management Information System (NMIS)
at J. Herbert Stone Nursery Using MS Access®
David B. Davis .................................................................... 130
Nursery Cost-Estimating at the NRCS Bridger Plant
Materials Center
Joseph D. Scianna ............................................................... 133
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