Poster Session

The poster session to be held all day Wednesday in conjunction with the coffee breaks and luncheon will include the following studies and possibly some late arrivals:

Effectiveness and Costs of Five Skid Trail Closure Techniques in the Virginia Piedmont - B. Clay Sawyers, W. Michael Aust, M. Chad Bolding, and Charles R. Wade, Virginia Tech.

Optimization of pyrolysis procedure for improved moisture resistance and reduced material costs in wood product - Robinson, T.J., Via, B.K., Tu, M., Adhikari,S., Fasina, O., and Carter, E., Auburn.

Improved Skidding for Small Scale Biomass Harvesting Systems -  Taylor Burdg and Tom Gallagher, Auburn.

A Survey of Forest Engineering and Forest Operations Programs in North America - Elizabeth M. Dodson, M. Chad Bolding, Ben Spong, Virginia Tech.

Temperatures and sparking from operation of high-speed disk saws - McDonald, Rummer, Auburn.

Torrefaction? What’s that? - Dana Mitchell and Tom Elder, USDA Forest Service.

Injury Characteristics for Mechanized Logging Operations in the Southeastern US: 1996-2006 - Tal Roberts and M. Chad Bolding, Virginia Tech.

Landing size and landing layout in whole-tree harvesting operations in New Zealand – Rien Visser, Raffaele Spinelli and Natascia Magagnotti, Canterbury University.

FPSuite: An Integrated Process Control Platform for Forestry Operations - Jean-Francois Gingras, Program Manager, FPInnovations, Feric division, Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada H9R 3J9.