46th SAF / SFRC Spring Symposium:
Family Forests: Sustaining a Legacy
April 30 - May 1, 2019
Roland T. Stern Learning Center
Univerisity of Florida Austin Cary Forest Campus
Forest landowners, foresters, and natural resource professionals are encouraged to attend! We’ll explore topics and strategies that landowners and forestry and natural resource professionals in a variety of sectors can use to help family forests remain productive and intact into the future, and provide for the many benefits valued by family forest landowners and society. Topics will include landowner associations, forest product markets, new landscape planning approaches, forest certification, economics, hurricane recovery, genetically improved southern pines, wildlife habitat provisions, intergenerational land transfer, and more!
Approved for 7.5 Cat. 1 and 2.0 Cat. 2 SAF CFEs.
2019 Spring Symposium Booklet (pdf)
Symposium presentations are linked below, as available, in Adobe PDF format:
April 30, 2019
Session 1
- Keith Argow, President, National Woodland Owners Association
“Sustaining your bottom line as a woodland owner” (NWOA web link) - Chrs Demers, Extension Program Manager, SFRC
Partnerships, communication strategies & resources for family forest landowners (pdf)
Session 2
- Mike Branch, Director of Operations and Regulatory Affairs, Florida Forestry Association
Hurricane Michael impacts, recovery, and lessons learned (pdf) - Jonathan Smith, Executive Director, Timber Mart-South
Florida forest product market trends (pdf) - Dr. Tim Martin, Professor, SFRC
Reforesting Florida timberlands with genetically improved southern pines (pdf)
Session 3
- Laura Bosworth, Southern Manager, American Tree Farm System, American Forest Foundation
Looking to the future of Tree Farming (pdf) - Jib Davidson, Columbia Timber and Environmental Services
Review of timberland investment drivers, growth, and timber prices (pdf) - Anthony Grossman, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Private land partnerships and conservation efforts in florida (pdf)
May 1, 2019
Session 4
- Charlie Farr, Florida Tree Farmer
The need for and development of the North Florida Prescribed Burn Association (pdf) - David Lewis, Southern Forestry Consultants
Family timberland partnership case study: The Register Family Partnership case study: The Register Family Partnership (pdf)
Later Life Planning Session
- Dr. Michael Gutter, Associate Professor and Dean, UF/IFAS Cooperative Extension Service
Finanical and estate planning strategies for woodland owners (pdf) - Chris Demers, SFRC
Succession planning (pdf)