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CAPITAL IDEAS -- LIVE!
July 2004 News Conference for Forest Owners
Sponsored by Alabama Forest Owners' Association, Inc. Conference was recorded
July 20 & 21, 2004.
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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.
Click Here to View & Hear Prior News Conferences.
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Phillip C. Badger
(00:41) |
Agricultural Biomass Company Fueling the Way
Phillip Badger is
President and Chief Manager of
Renewable Oil International, LLC, located in Florence, Alabama.
Renewable Oil International's purpose is to cost-effectively convert
biomass and waste to alternative fuels. Badger's company produces a bio-oil,
a liquefied biomass, using
biomass pyrolysis, which is the conversion of biomass (wood, grass,
manure etc.) into liquid oil, a carbon residue or char and a combustible
gas. Badger describes his technology, its effectiveness, and benefits it may
provide the forest products industry.
Additional Resources and Links
PHONE: (256) 740-5634
EMAIL:
pbadger@renewableoil.com
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John F. Godbee, Jr., ACF, RF
(05:39) |
Carbon Sequestration Registry in Alabama's
Future?
John Godbee is the
forest certification and environmental compliance programs manager
with
F & W Forestry Services, a forest resource management and consulting
firm in Statesboro, Georgia. Cleaning smokestack gases at power plants has
become a
multi-billion dollar business for environmental engineers. And even
though it is far more efficient to remove one of the targeted impurities,
carbon dioxide, from the atmosphere by growing trees, no one has developed
a fool-proof, credible method for rewarding the tree growers in the
same way free markets reward them for growing pine sawtimber. John Godbee is
working towards that goal.
Recently, Georgia's General Assembly, with
Godbee's guidance, passed legislation creating the Georgia Carbon
Sequestration Registry. In addition to being responsible for
developing the means for measuring, establishing ownership, and
recording units of carbon dioxide captured in so-called “carbon sinks”
by trees through photosynthesis, the hope is to also put Georgia tree
growers, farmers, and manufacturers into the forefront of a this new
market. Godbee defines
carbon sequestration, explains how Georgia went about developing
the legislation, what the Bill proposes to accomplish, and why Alabama
landowners should be interested.
Web links
PHONE: (229) 343-8023
EMAIL: jgodbee@fwforestry.com
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Wayne Tucker
(09:38) |
Mississippi Steps Out
With "First-Ever State-Sponsored" Forest Inventory
Wayne Tucker, Executive
Director of the Mississippi Institute for Forest Inventory, is
charged with developing the first-ever, comprehensive
state-sponsored forest resources inventory. Using remote sensing and
satellite imagery, the inventory will be able to determine forested acreage,
forest types, timber volumes, and more. Their aim: to provide landowners,
forest-related service providers and forest products companies a constant
update of Mississippi's forest resources. We are curious as to why
Mississippi walked away from their old system under the guidance of the U.
S. Forest Service and hope Mr. Tucker will help us understand their
independent move.
Alabama forests are inventoried by state employees under U. S. Forest
Service supervision.
WEBLINKS
PHONE: (662) 325-5498
EMAIL: tucker@mifi.state.ms.us
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Dr. J. Walter Prevatt
(12:29) |
Renting Farmland: Some Cautions and Advice
Walt Prevatt is an
Extension Economist and Professor in the Department of
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
at Auburn University. Many forest owners also own cropland and pastureland
and many have called AFOA to describe problems associated with their
agricultural land. How much rent should I charge for pastureland? The
farmer who leases my bean and cotton fields has leased my property to
hunters and I didn't give him that right - what should I do? What are my
liabilities if "my farmer" hurts himself while farming my 20 acres? Dr.
Prevatt suggests that landowners who rent agricultural land should develop a
lease which covers rental price, liability, soil fertility, toxic residues,
etc.
PHONE: (334) 844-5604
EMAIL:
jprevatt@acesag.auburn.edu
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Dr. David J. Moorhead, Ph.D.
(16:51) |
Pre-commercial Thinning Worth the Cost
David Moorhead is a
Professor of Silviculture and Extension Forester
with the
Warnell School of Forest Resources at the University of Georgia.
Young, overstocked, planted pine stands are common. Caused by natural
seeding of a planted site, overstocked stands are subject to southern pine
beetle infestations and stand stagnation. Both can be expensive for the
forest owner. Most of us have a hard time seeing the benefits of
pre-commercial thinning and sometimes are not prepared to spend money on the
operation so soon after paying for site preparation and tree planting.
Moorhead explains what qualifies as too many seedlings and how
pre-commercial thinning can improve the health and growth of our young pine
investments.
Web links
PHONE: (229) 386-3298
EMAIL: moorhead@uga.edu
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Bill Klingler
(21:07) |
Building Codes Make Selling Home-Grown Lumber
Difficult
Bill Klingler is a Bullock
County forest owner and life-long farmer. He had toyed with
the idea of buying a portable sawmill for the purpose of building a pole
barn on his property and maybe developing a business selling lumber to
building contractors and others. He soon discovered that his business idea
might not work when his building contractor told him that the contractor's
liability insurance would not allow the use of ungraded lumber. Building
codes, building code inspectors, lenders, insurance agencies, and other rule
makers across the country are slowly making the use of ungraded lumber
impossibly difficult. The scenario posed by Klingler is
not an isolated incident. Other landowners who wanted to use their
own wood, which met or in some cases exceeded, grading standards, had
to go through the costly grading process and certification. Klingler
shares his story and describes the advantages to using one's own lumber.
WEB LINKS
PHONE: (334) 584-7041
EMAIL: billklingler@mon-cre.net
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Dr. Ralph E. Mirarchi
(24:06) |
Alabama Wildlife Series Basis of Wildlife Conservation Strategy
Ralph Mirarchi is the
William R. and Fay Ireland Distinguished Professor, Wildlife Ecology and
Management at Auburn University's
School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences. He has written four
different volumes called the Alabama Wildlife
series. The first volume is an annotated list of all vertebrates and
selected invertebrates that live in Alabama. The second and third volumes
highlight species that are imperiled in some way and the fourth volume
describes conservation and management recommendations that "might prevent
driving the species to extinction." The books will be used as the basis
for the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources'
Wildlife Conservation Strategy over the next decade. Landowners
might use them to create a checklist of species on their own land and to
develop a conservation plan for their land. We found a variety of prices on
the Internet and good descriptions of the volumes at the University of
Alabama's website. See below.
Ordering the Alabama Wildlife series:
PHONE: (334) 844-9253
EMAIL:
rmirarch@acesag.auburn.edu
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Thomas R. Brickman, RF, ACF
(28:43) |
Forest & Farmland For Sale
Thomas Brickman has
twenty-nine years experience as a practicing forester, real estate broker,
and real estate appraiser. In addition, he is a partner with Cyprus
Partners, a real estate development and brokerage business located in
Birmingham, Alabama. Some of Cyprus Partners' land brokerage clients include
corporations, timberland investment managers and individuals who seek to
sell or buy land in central Alabama. Cyprus Partners is currently offering
17 properties for sale in 8 central Alabama counties, all within about
one hour from Birmingham. These properties include investment-grade
forestry opportunities, hunting and recreation tracts and farm land.
Examples of Current Offerings
PHONE: (205) 936-2160
EMAIL: tbrick@bellsouth.net
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