Table of Contents
Joint Meeting of the Southern Forest Nursery Association, and Northeastern Forest and
Conservation Nursery Association, Little Rock, Arkansas, July 26 to 29, 2010.................................................. 1
Overview of Forestry in Arkansas
John Shannon**
Forests and Forestry in Arkansas During the Last Two Centuries.............................................................................. 3
Don C Bragg
Forest Landowner Survey
Brett Butler**
Weyerhaeuser in Arkansas........................................................................................................................................ 10
John Hearnsberger
Panel Discussion: Marketing Hardwoods at the George O White State Forest Nursery........................................... 12
Greg Hoss
Who Pays for Tree Improvement?............................................................................................................................. 14
Tom D Byram and EM Raley
Nursery Certification
Robert P Karrfalt**
Shortleaf Pine Production
Scott Huff**
Historical Forest Seedling Production in the Southern United States: 2008 to 2009 Planting Season..................... 19
Scott A Enebak
What’s New with Nurseries and Reforestation Projects at the Missoula Technology and Development Center?..... 35
Bob Simonson
Update on Soil Fumigation: MBr Alternatives and Reregistration Decisions............................................................. 40
Scott A Enebak
Natural Resources Conservation Service Update and How it Works
George Rheinhardt**
How the Arkansas Forestry Commission Supports Baucum Nursery
Doug Akin**
Rehabilitating Afghanistan’s Natural Resources........................................................................................................ 46
George Hernández
The Use of Proline® (Prothioconazole) to Control Pitch Canker, Rhizoctonia Foliage Blight, and
Fusiform Rust in Forest Seedling Nurseries and Efforts to Acquire Registration.................................................. 49
Tom E Starkey and Scott A Enebak
Joint Meeting of the Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association and Forest Nursery Association of British Columbia, Target Seedling Symposium, Portland, Oregon, August 24 to 26, 2010.................. 59
The Target Plant Concept—A History and Brief Overview........................................................................................ 61
Thomas D Landis
Producing the Target Seed: Seed Collection, Treatment, and Storage..................................................................... 67
Robert P Karrfalt
Morphology Targets: What Do Seedling Morphological Attributes Tell Us?............................................................... 74
Jeremiah R Pinto
Seedling Root Targets............................................................................................................................................... 80
Diane L Haase
Repetitive Reaction and Restitution (R3) Induction of Drought Hardiness in Conifer Container Seedlings............... 83
Jol Hodgson
Seedling Mineral Nutrition, the Root of the Matter.................................................................................................... 87
Barbara J Hawkins
The Role of Plant Water Relations in Achieving and Maintaining the Target Seedling.............................................. 98
John G Mexal and Nabil Khadduri
Assimilation and Use of Carbon: Opportunities and Challenges for Nursery Seedling Culture
Kent G Apostol**
Provenance Variability in Nursery Growth of Subalpine Fir..................................................................................... 110
Charlie Cartwright and Cheng Ying
Targeting Hardwoods.............................................................................................................................................. 115
Douglass F Jacobs
Seedling Phenology and Cold Hardiness: Moving Targets...................................................................................... 121
Diane L Haase
Nursery Cultural Practices to Achieve Targets: A Case Study in Western Larch Irrigation...................................... 128
Anthony S Davis and Robert F Keefe
Climate Change and Expected Changes to Nurseries And Reforestation in Western North America
Laura Gray and Andreas Hamann**
Using Essential Oils to Control Moss and Liverwort in Containers......................................................................... 133
Nabil Khadduri
Tissue Culture of Conifer Seedlings—20 Years On: Viewed Through the Lens of Seedling Quality....................... 139
Steven C Grossnickle
Outplanting Strategies—GRO TRZ Consulting Incorporated.................................................................................. 147
Dennis Farquharson
Target Seedling Strategies for Intensively Managed Plantations in the Oregon Coast Range............................... 150
Mark Wall
Intertribal Nursery Council Annual Meeting, Arlington, Washington, September 21 to 23, 2010.................. 157
Shrub-Steppe Species Germination Trials and Survival after Outplanting on Bare Soils....................................... 159
Steven O Link, Rico O Cruz, Barbara L Harper, Janice D Jones, and Beverly L Penney
Participants............................................................................................................................................................ 169
Joint Meeting of the Southern Forest Nursery Association and Northeastern Forest and
Conservation Nursery Association....................................................................................................................... 171
Joint Meeting of the Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association and Forest Nursery
Association of British Columbia: Target Seedling Symposium—2010................................................................. 175
Intertribal Nursery Council Annual Meeting............................................................................................................. 181
**No papers received; for more information, contact authors at the addresses provided in the list of attendees.