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CAPITAL IDEAS -- LIVE!
May 2001 News Conference for Forest Owners
Sponsored by Alabama Forest Owners' Association, Inc.
Conference was recorded Wednesday, May 16, 2001.
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Hayes D. Brown
starting time: (00:00) |
Moderator
Hayes D. Brown, attorney and forest owner, will moderate this
news conference. Hayes' email address is
hbrown@hayesbrown.com.
Review prior news conferences:
07/27/00 |
08/24/00 |
09/20/00 |
10/18/00 |
11/15/00 |
01/17/01 | 02/21/01 |
03/21/01
| 04/13/01 |
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William G. Hubbard
(00:56) |
Find
Forestry Publications Fast
Bill Hubbard is Southern Regional Extension Forester based in
Athens, Georgia. He assists Forestry Extension Agents, state forestry
agency personnel and USDA Forest Service professionals deliver
educational programs for landowners, natural resource professionals and
other clientele.Bill recently announced the Internet "launch" of
ForestryIndex.net
(click here).
ForestryIndex.net "organizes and displays publications, websites and
internet resources ready for viewing and/or printing." Bill explains how
you might use the website to gather needed forest management
information.
phone: (706) 542-7813
email: hubbard@smokey.forestry.uga.edu
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Bruce Griffith
(03:32) |
TreeKeepers.org Fights Eco-Extortion
Bruce Griffith
is president of Griffith Lumber
Company, Inc., a family business at the foot of Virginia's Blue Ridge
Mountains that specializes in "quality Appalachian hardwoods." In the face
of repeated attacks on the forest industry, Bruce has become a forest
activist and chairs the Virginia TreeKeepers. The mission of
TreeKeepers
(click here) is "to provide
the knowledge, the place, and the strategy for those who wish to take a more
active role in applying human ingenuity, science and technology in resolving
consumer and environmental issues." TreeKeepers practices what Bruce
calls, "In your face forestry." He suggests visits to the following
websites.
phone:(540) 694-6969
email: cgriffit@swva.net
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Arlyn W. Perkey
(08:06) |
Room to
Grow: An Invisible Resource
Arlyn Perkey is a USDA Forest Service silviculturist stationed
at the Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry Field Office,
Morgantown, West Virginia. He describes "crown-touching release" in a
paper entitled A Decade of Crop Tree Management.
Click here
to open A Decade of Crop Tree Management and then
"Find"
(press the control key and "f" key at the same time)
FTG. Immediately below
"FTG" you will see some green "tree tops", a yellow bar graph and a red
bar graph.
Arlyn has found that trees grow better when
they have more room to grow and his diagrams and graphs add to our
understanding of that principle.
Papers and reports by Mr. Perkey can be
read at:
phone: (304) 285-1523
email: aperkey@fs.fed.us
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Dr. H. Lee Allen
(11:42) |
Leaves
Grow Trees
Resources Grow Leaves
Lee Allen
is Director of the
North Carolina State Forest
Nutrition Co-op. His mantra is "leaves grow trees, resources grow
leaves." Fertilization and other silvicultural activities are resources that
we can control to increase the amount of leaf area per acre to gain maximum
growth of our trees. Dr. Allen has created a well organized and
detailed slide show (slide
show unavailable 9/12/03)
to demonstrate the basis for his claims.
Questions he hopes to answer include:
- Will my trees respond to
nutrient additions?
- Phosphorus deficient soils in south
Alabama: what should I do?
- Should I thin first and then fertilize?
phone: (919) 515-3500
email: lee_allen@ncsu.edu
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Bruce S. Lanier
(14:45) |
Southern
Pine Beetles:
Control Begins With Early and Accurate Detection
Bruce Lanier is operations forester for Timber Managers Company, a
forestry consulting business of Gulf States Paper Corporation. He has
developed a system to find southern pine beetle spots from a light plane
using maps and the Global Positioning System. His methods are proving
beneficial to clients. Accurate early detection of SPB spots gives the
landowner an opportunity to salvage or at least stop advancing beetle
populations before they can do further damage.
phone: 1-800-247-0041
email: blanier@timbermanagers.com
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Dr. Karl V. Miller
(17:41) |
Quality Whitetails :
The Why and How of Quality Deer Management
Karl Miller is Associate Professor at the Warnell School of
Forest Resources, University of Georgia. He and R. Larry Marchington
edited the 320 page Quality Whitetails, which is on the "must
read" list of the Quality Deer Management Association (www.qdma.com
or 1-800-209-DEER).
Jon Nelson, an Illinois hunter in his
review on
Amazon.com
writes: Reading this book was the best possible thing I could have done
for myself and the sport of deer hunting. It teaches you the basics of
QDM and explains why you should do it. This book addresses old myths
like why it is bad to shoot anterless deer. It explains that QDM is
about deer herd health, not just antler size. It explains how to set up
a program on your property, explaining how to do deer density counts,
why deer weight is important to get, how to age a deer, types of food
plots, etc..
Buy the Book. Cost: $27.96
email: kmiller@smokey.forestry.uga.edu
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Hugh E. Mobley
(20:45) |
Prescribed
Burning Course on the Web
Hugh Mobley is a consulting forester who specializes in fire. He
has taught several workshops to prepare foresters and landowners to
become certified burners under Alabama's Certified Burn Act. For the
past year he has worked with Auburn University to build a website that
includes the material taught in his prescribed burn workshops and it is
available for you to use. Visit the
Prescribed Burn Program by clicking here.
phone: (334) 567-4462
email: hughmobley@aol.com
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James M. Vardaman
(25:50) |
Stumpage
Markets: Current Situation
James M. Vardaman is President of
James M. Vardaman & Company, the forest management firm he
started in 1951. You probably have seen or received copies of the
Vardaman "Green Sheet," published since 1974 and now being replaced by a
weekly email newsletter. Or you may have read his books, Tree Farm
Business Management and How to Make Money Growing Trees.
Both are excellent sources of information for the forest owner.
Vardaman on the timber market:
"The timber market is huge, extremely
varied, and changing all the time. There is no 'market price' for timber
in the sense that there is a market price for General Motors stock. On
most trading days, the high for GM is not 5% above the low, whereas the
high bid for a tract of timber often exceeds the low by 100%."
Mr. Vardaman suggests a visit to these
web addresses:
phone: (601) 354-3123
email: jacksonms@vardaman.com
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Issues and Topics AFOA is following.
To suggest an issue or a topic
for a future telephone conference, please
send an email note to AFOA by clicking here. |
- Energy Crisis & Federal Eminent Domain
- Palm Pilots & Forest Records
- Red Hills Salamander
- County Zoning
- Right to Farm & Practice Forestry
- Illegal Dumping
- Constitutional Revision/Tax Reform
- Industry Consolidation & Timber Markets
- Stumpage & Forest Product Markets
- Seasonal Forest and Wildlife Management
Tips
- Forestland For Sale
- Repeal of Estate Tax
- Forest Taxation: income, estate, &
property
- Southern Pine Beetle: salvage &
prevention
- Wood Buying Policies During SPB
Epidemic
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Section 631(b) Capital Gains Tax Change
- Delaney Family Current-Use Case
- Jefferson Co. Storm Water Management
Lawsuit & Appeal
- Alabama's Pine Straw Wholesale Market
- Useful Computer Software
- Forest Fertilization
- Intensive Forest Management
- Long Rotation Management & Natural
Regeneration
- TMDL, CWA, EPA Basins, CARA, Forest
Certification
- Minerals, Gas & Oil Activity
- Recreational Businesses for Forest
Owners
- Current Use Tax Assessment Rates
- Local Harvesting Restrictions & Road
Weight Limits
- Bridge Repairs & the Alabama Trust Fund
- Dog Hunting & Hunter Trespass
- and many more.
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