Agenda

Sunday, June 6 – Auburn University Conference Center

3:00 pm	Registration opens
6:00 – 8:00	Ice-breaker social, Conference Center Ballroom (Sponsored by Caterpillar)

Monday, June 7 – Auburn University Conference Center – Auditorium A

7:00 am	Registration opens
8:00 am	Welcome Dr. Jay Gogue, President, Auburn University Dr. Dick Brinker, Dean, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Tom Gallagher, Annual meeting Chair
9:00 am	Keynote Speaker Tom Kelly, retired logging engineer, Scott Paper, Mobile, AL *Logging practices from South Alabama – could they still apply?*
10:00 - 10:30	Break (Sponsored by MeadWestvaco)
10:30 – 11:00	Bruce Narveson, Industry Manager, Forestry Division, Caterpillar Equipment Company, Lagrange, GA CAT in the marketplace and new innovations for biomass.
11:00 – 11:30	Sam Houston, Manager of Supply Chain Services, Forest2Market Biomass supply and demand.
11:30 – 12:00	Bryce Stokes, Senior Advisor, Navarro Research & Engineering Inc. Role of wood for energy.
12:00 – 1:30	Awards Luncheon (Sponsored by John Deere)
1:30 – 2:00	Doug Domenech, Secretary of Natural Resources, Virginia Commonwealth How will the alternative energy market affect a southern state. (invited)
2:00 – 2:30	Tim West, Product APplication Consultant, John Deere What John Deere brings to the table.
2:30 – 3:00	Steve Taylor, Director, Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts, Auburn University Biomass to Liquid Fuel Conversion Technology.
3:00 – 3:30	Break (Sponsored by Caterpillar)
3:30 – 4:00	Bill Waller, Procurement Manager, Green Circle Bio Energy From wood to energy.
4:00 – 4:30	Joseph Parnell - Parnell Logging, Maplesville, AL What can the logger bring to the table?
4:30 – 5:00	John Garland – Professor Emeritus, Forest Engineering, Resources and Management, Oregon State University Ideas fuel the future: the changing role of forest engineers and foresters.
6:00 – 8:00	Ice-breaker social, Conference Center Ballroom A

Monday Spouse/Guest Tour

10:00 am	Leave from Conference Center for walking tour of campus
Noon	Return for Awards Luncheon
1:30	Bus to Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
3:30	Return to Conference Center

Tuesday, June 8 – Field trip

8:00 – 8:00

Leave from the front of the Conference Center at 8:00 am for several stops, followed by a social and evening meal at the Mary Olive Thomas tract south of Auburn (spouse transportation at 5:00 from Conference Center)

Biofuels Center
RMS roads and operations
AL Power Dare Park on Lake Martin – lunch & hear from AL Power
Logger visit

Wednesday, June 9 – School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Building
Concurrent Sessions

7:30 am	Registration opens – School Conference Hall
Session A - Room 1221 - BMP’s/Roads - moderator
8:00 – 8:20	Modeling Streamflow Responses to Road Density in the Coweeta Watershed, North Carolina - Salli Dymond, W. Michael Aust, Steve Prisley, Virginia Tech, Mark Eisenbies, Mississippi State, James Vose, and Andrew Dolloff, USDA Forest Service.
8:20 – 8:40	Designing for effective evaluations of soil erosion and storm runoff - J. McFero Grace III, Mark Dougherty, Emily Carter, and Ali Baharanyi, USDA Forest Service and Auburn University.
8:40 – 9:00	Development of a Correlation Equation between Clegg Impact Values and California Bearing Ratio for In-Field Strength - Simon Fairbrother, Robert McGregor and Ivan Aleksandrov, University of Canterbury.
9:00 – 9:20	Methods, BMP's, and costs of skidder and truck stream crossings in Virginia - Scott E. McKee, Luke Shenk, M. Chad Bolding, W. Mike Aust, Virginia Tech.
9:20 – 9:40	Estimating construction and maintenance costs of various standard forest roads and bridges - Miles C. Groover, M. Chad Bolding, and W. Mike Aust, Virginia Tech.

Session B - Room 1223 – Markets and Procurement - moderator
8:00 – 8:20	Changes in Wood Procurement Strategies in Virginia: Coping with Market Volatility - William S. Ford and M. Chad Bolding, Virginia Tech.
8:20 – 8:40	Hardwood Supply Logistics for Ethanol Production - Dr. Dalia Abbas, Dr. Ajit Srivastava, and Dr. Chris Saffron, Michigan State University.
8:40 – 9:00	Consequences of Mill Closures, Parcelization, and Wood-to-Energy Expansion for the U.S. South’s Wood Supply Chain - Joseph L. Conrad IV and M. Chad Bolding, Virginia Tech.
9:00 – 9:20	Status of Technology for Harvesting Forest Biomass - Results of a National Survey of Logging Contractors and Industry - Andres Enrich, Jason Cutshall, Shawn Baker, and Dale Greene, University of Georgia, Amanda Lang and Brooks Mendell, Forisk Consulting LLC.
9:20 – 9:40	Characteristics of Logging Businesses Harvesting Biomass for Energy in the Virginia Piedmont - Scott M. Barrett, M. Chad Bolding, and John F. Munsell, Virginia Tech.

9:40 – 10:10	Break and poster session – School Conference Hall (Sponsored by International Paper)

Session C – Room 1221 – BMP’s - moderator
10:10 – 10:30	Developing Woody Biomass Retention Guidelines in Maine - Jeffrey G. Benjamin, University of Maine, Donald J. Mansius, Maine Forest Service, and Kate Albert Read.
10:30 – 10:50	GPS and GIS Analysis of Mobile Harvesting Equipment and Sediment Delivery to Streams During Forest Harvest - Daniel Bowker, Jeff Stringer, Chris Barton, Songlin Fei, University of Kentucky.
10:50 – 11:10	Soil Disturbance and Site Impacts Related to a Thinning Operation in Kentucky - Emily A. Carter and Jason D. Thompson, USDA Forest Service.
11:10 – 11:30	Comparison of potential erosion following conventional and cable yarding timber harvests in the Appalachian Plateau - Bill Worrell, W. Mike Aust, and M. Chad Bolding, Virginia Tech.
11:30 – 11:50	Evaluation of Bladed Skid Trail Closure and Cover BMPs for Erosion Control - Charlie Wade, W. M. Aust, and M. Chad Bolding, Virginia Tech.

Session D – Room 1223 – System Design - moderator
10:10 – 10:30	Potential Improvements to Equipment and Processes for Harvesting Forest Biomass for Energy - Bruce Hartsough, Peter Dempster, Nicholas Gallo, Bryan Jenkins and Peter Tittmann, UC – Davis.
10:30 – 10:50	Developing a New Generation of Woody Biomass Harvesting Equipment - Bob Rummer, USDA Forest Service, Steve Taylor, Auburn University, and Frank Corley, Corley Land Services.
10:50 – 11:10	Validation of a new conceptual cable harvesting system using an independent device for lateral yarding - Tetsuhiko Yoshimura, Shimane University and Bruce Hartsough, UC - Davis.
11:10 – 11:30	Some like it hot, some like it cold: Experience with biomass collection in western Oregon - Elizabeth M. Dodson, University of Montana.
11:30 – 11:50	The effect of harvesting system on forest residue production in Fiji - George Vuki, Rien Visser, University of Canterbury.

11:50 – 1:20	Business Luncheon and poster session – School Conference Hall (Sponsored by Caterpillar)

Session E – Room 1221 – Productivity and Costs - moderator
1:20 – 1:40	Are equipment replacement models adequate for Canadian logging contractors? - Ricardo P. Cantú & Luc Lebel, Laval University.
1:40 – 2:00	Impact of Timber Sale Characteristics on Harvesting Costs - Shawn Baker, Dale Greene, and Tom Harris, University of Georgia.
2:00 – 2:20	Evaluating a Web Based Machine Productivity and Fuel Consumption Monitoring System - Jason D. Thompson, John Klepac, USDA Forest Service.
2:20 – 2:40	Productivity and financial analysis of a field deployment of mobile pyrolysis for the in-woods production of bio-oil and biochar from forest treatment residues - Dr. Nathaniel Anderson, Dr. J. Greg Jones, and Dr. Woodam Chung, University of Montana and USDA Forest Service.
2:40 – 3:00	Establishing a standard work sampling method for mastication productivity analysis - Brian Vitorelo and Han-Sup Han, Humboldt State University.

Session F – Room 1223 – Safety and Environment - moderator
1:20 – 1:40	The effect of shift duration on the performance of forest harvesting operations - Luc Lebel, Laval University and Bruno Farbos, Montreal University.
1:40 – 2:00	Factors Associated with Logging Truck Accidents in Georgia, 1988-2008 - Jason Cutshall and Dale Greene, University of Georgia.
2:00 – 2:20	Modeling forest biomass in atmospheric carbon reduction in West Virginia - Benktesh Dash Sharma, Jingxin Wang, West Virginia University.
2:20 – 2:40	Discussion economy and energy balances of forest biomass utilization for Bio-energy at Sano city, Tochigi prefecture, in Japan - Kazuhiro Aruga, Ayami Murakami, Masashi Saito, Kaname Ito, Reiko Yamaguchi, Chikara Nakahata, Utsunomiya University.
2:40 – 3:00	Energy consumption of small scale production systems for fuel wood chips - Masahiro Iwaoka, Tsutomu Nakahara, Masayuki Ozawa, Akiyoshi Kanno, Yuta Inomata and Siaw Onwona-Agyeman, Tokyo University.

3:00 – 3:20	Break and poster session – School Conference Hall (Sponsored by Resource Management Services)

Session G – Room 1221 – Productivity and Costs - moderator
3:20 – 3:40	A productivity and cost comparison of hog fuel production using slash forwarding and in-woods grinding of cured harvest - Dr. Nathaniel Anderson, Dr. Woodam Chung, Dr. J. Greg Jones, and Dan Loeffler , University of Montana and USDA Forest Service.
3:40 – 4:00	Productivity Estimates and Product Quality Measures for Chippers and Grinders on Operational Southern Timber Harvests - Addison Aman, Shawn Baker, and Dale Greene, University of Georgia.
4:00 – 4:20	Harvesting understory biomass - John Klepac, USDA Forest Service.
4:20 – 4:40	Optimizing the Use of a John Deere Bundling Unit in a Southern Logging System - Steven Meadows, Tom Gallagher and Dana Mitchell, Auburn University and USDA Forest Service.
4:40 - 5:00	*FPSuite: An Integrated Process Control Platform for Forestry Operations* - Jean-Francois Gingras, Program Manager, FPInnovations

Session H – Room 1223 – Transportation - moderator
3:20 – 3:40	Biomass recovery and drying trials in New Zealand clear-cut pine plantations - Rien Visser, Hamish Berkett and Kent Chalmers, University of Canterbury.
3:40 – 4:00	*Estimating Crown and Understory Biomass in Operational Harvests of Roundwood and Biomass in Southern Pine Plantations* - Addison Aman, Shawn Baker, and Dale Greene, University of Georgia.
4:00 – 4:20	Forest Biomass Assessment and Transportation Network Analysis for Evaluating the Feasibility of Establishing a Biomass - Joshua Clark, John Sessions, Michael Wing, Christian Schmidt, Oregon State University.
4:20 – 4:40	Trucking efficiency improvement through an analysis of in-woods turnaround times - Tripp N. Dowling and M. Chad Bolding, Virginia Tech.
4:40 - 5:00	Mileage savings from optimization of coordinated trucking - McDonald, Haridass, Gallagher, Smidt, Valenzuela, Auburn University.

5:00	Adjourn