2024 Eastern Exchange Meeting --- Athens, GA

Date: 2024-12-05 08:00:00Z

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2024 Eastern Exchange Meeting --- Athens, GA

"Unique Silviculture and Timber Sale Preparation and Management Decisions for High Returns from Plantation Pine Forestry in Front of the Continued Land Development Wave"

December 5, 2024

7:15 - 7:45 am  Registration and attendee meet and greet – Candlewood Suites, Athens, GA

7:45 - 8:00 am Welcome and introductions

8:00 - 8:30 am Travel to initial tour site

8:30 - 10:00 am Tour Stop #1: View a 20-year old, elite open pollinated loblolly pine stand with nearly 11 tons/acre/year production in NE Georgia --- Max production for the Piedmont of the SEUS? Consider the differences in yield, stem quality, and thinning complexity at 12’x8’, 14’x9’, and 20’x5’ initial deployment spacings.

10:00 - 10:20 am Travel to second tour site

10:20 - 11:00 am Tour Stop #2: View the next hyper-focused wave of genetic improvement for deployment in a high-investment-cost and high-uncertainty growth environment ----View a 5-year-old Progeny Test, Genetic Comparison Row Plot, and an Operational CMP-infused loblolly pine stand at high growth trajectory

11:00 - 11:15 pm Travel to third tour stop

11:15 - 12:00 pm Tour Stop #3: View a post-thinned, 17-year-old clonal loblolly planting on a deep sandy clay loam at high growth trajectory that was established on a 20’ x 5’ spacing.

12:00 - 1:00 pm Local Restaurant Lunch

1:00 - 1:50 pm Travel to fourth tour site

1:50 - 2:45 pm Tour Stop #4: Consideration of mid and late rotation thinning decisions to optimize large loblolly pine utility pole production in North and Central GA

2:45 - 3:05 pm Return to Athens

Super high production!

Pole Production System Demonstrated

Powerful Progeny

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