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>>> exhibitors Acorn Forestry ArborGen, Inc. Arkansas Forestry Commission Arkansas Forest Resources Center Construction Safety Products Crop Production Services – Timberland Division DataScout, LLC Davis Dubose Knight Forestry & Real Estate PLLC Dow AgroSciences LLC Farm Credit International Forest Company Landmark Spatial Solutions, LLC Pate Enterprises Plum Creek Red River Specialties Smiths South-Central Sales Co. Superior Forestry Service, Inc. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Vera Lloyd Presbyterian Family Services Weyerhaeuser Premium Seedlings
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>>> agenda >>> Tuesday, September 23
Noon – 6 p.m. .........................................................................................Registration Noon – 1 p.m. ................................................ Women in Forestry Networking Lunch Noon – 6 p.m. .................................................................................. Exhibitor Set-up 1 – 4 p.m. ..............................................................Landowner Workshop - Ballroom Extension Education - Dr. Tamara Walkingstick, Arkansas Forest Resources Center Private Lands Biologists - David Long, Arkansas Game & Fish Commission Consultant Services - Rebecca Montgomery, Ark. Board of Registration for Foresters County Forester Services - Larry Nance, Arkansas Forestry Commission 5 p.m. .......................................................................... AFA Board Meeting - Ballroom 6 p.m. .......Opening Reception, sponsored by Weyerhaeuser, Conference Center A & B 7:30 p.m. ......................................................................................Dinner on Your Own
>>> Wednesday, September 24
7 a.m. ................................................................................................ Exhibitor Set-up 7 a.m. .......................UA Monticello Alumni Breakfast - Magnolia Room (hotel lobby) 7:30 a.m. ............... Registration and Continental Breakfast - Conference Center A & B 8:30 a.m. .........................................................................Market Overview - Ballroom Doyle Simons, Weyerhaeuser President and CEO 9:30 a.m. ................................................. Arkansas Forest Resources Center Overview Dr. Phil Tappe, Director 10 a.m................................................................................................................ Break 10:30 a.m. ................................Markets/Economic Development/Bio-based Products Dr. Matthew Pelkki, Arkansas Forest Resources Center Dr. Josh Adams, Arkansas Forest Resources Center Dr. Julie Carrier, Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station Noon................................... Luncheon, sponsored by Plum Creek, Conference Center C Dr. Mark Cochran, VP for Agriculture, UA Division of Agriculture 1 p.m. ...............................................................................Improving Forest Resiliency Dr. Andrew Nelson, Arkansas Forest Resources Center 1:45 p.m............................................... Forests’ Contributions to a Sustainable Society Dr. Hal Liechty, Arkansas Forest Resources Center Dr. Sayeed Mehmood, Arkansas Forest Resources Center 2:30 p.m. ........................................................................................................... Break 3 p.m................................................................................................................Wildlife Dr. Don White, Arkansas Forest Resources Center Dr. Doug Osborne, Arkansas Forest Resources Center 4:30 p.m.......................................................................................................... Adjourn 6 p.m...........................................Barbecue and Bluegrass Dinner, sponsored by Deltic Hot Springs Farmers & Artisans Market
>>> Thursday, September 25
8 a.m. ............................................................................. Awards Breakfast - Ballroom 11 a.m. .......................................................... Door Prizes and Silent Auction, Adjourn
>>> speakers Dr. Tamara Walkingstick is associate professor of forestry and associate director of the Arkansas Forest Resources Center, through the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service. She serves as a resource person for extension agents, organizes and interprets forest management information, develops educational materials directed toward private forest landowners and 4-H programs. David Long has been a Private Lands Supervisor with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission for 37 years. For 31 of those years, he worked with landowners and private lands programs. He holds a bachelor of science in wildlife management from Arkansas State University. Rebecca Montgomery is the executive director for the Arkansas State Board of Registration for Foresters. She graduated cum laude from the University of Monticello in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in forestry. In 2002, she received her master’s in forest resources from UAM. Since then, she has been employed by UAM and the Arkansas Forestry Commission before accepting her current position with the Board of Registration for Foresters. Larry D. Nance started his career with the Arkansas Forestry Commission in 1978 as an assistant district forester at Sheridan. Nance has been deputy state forester since 2000. In this role, he supervises field operations, which consist of eight districts and the state forest. He earned a bachelor of science degree in forestry from the University of Arkansas at Monticello. He serves on the AFA Board of Directors and on the executive committee of the Arkansas Division and Ouachita Society of American Foresters. John McAlpine has been part of the forestry business for most of his life. Today, he is on the board of directors and secretary/treasure of Kingwood Forestry Services, Inc. He is responsible for the client services and tree farm management departments. Also, he is active in the management of property held by institutional investors. He holds a bachelor’s degree in forestry from the UA Monticello School of Forest Resources. Doyle Simons was elected president and chief executive officer of Weyerhaeuser in 2013, and has served as a member of the board of directors since June 2012. He served as chairman and chief executive officer of Temple-Inland, Inc. from 2008 until February of 2012 when it was acquired by International Paper Company. Previously, he held various management positions with Temple-Inland, including executive vice president from 2005 through 2007 and chief administrative officer from 2003 to 2005. Prior to joining the company in 1992, he practiced real estate and banking law with Hutcheson and Grundy, L.L.P. He also serves on the board of directors for Fiserv, Inc. He has extensive experience in managing forest products companies and capital intensive industries, with strong skills in corporate finance, executive compensation and strategic planning.
Dr. Phil Tappe (@ptappe) is director of the Arkansas Forest Resources Center of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and Dean of the School of Forest Resources of the University of Arkansas at Monticello. He is responsible for leading the university system’s coordinated forest resources program, which includes the development and delivery of programs in education, research and extension. Tappe currently serves as the chair of the southern region of the National Association of University Forest Resources Programs. He joined UAM in 1991 after receiving his Ph.D. in forest resources from Clemson University. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in forestry from Stephen F. Austin State University. Tappe’s teaching and research has focused on forest and wildlife management. Dr. Matthew Pelkki (@pelkki) is a professor in the Arkansas Forest Resources Center, University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, and the George H. Clippert Endowed Chair of Forest Resource Economics, Management, and Policy at the School of Forest Resources at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Dr. Pelkki has a bachelor’s degree in forestry from the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources & Environment, and master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota’s College of Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences. Dr. Pelkki teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in financial analysis, forest economics, and forest management. His current research projects include economics of biomass production, carbon sequestration in forests and forest products, and forest-based economic development. Dr. Joshua Adams (@j_padams) is an Assistant Professor in the Arkansas Forest Resources Center, University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, and the School of Forest Resources, University of Arkansas at Monticello. He is a native of Louisiana and received his bachelor’s degree in forest management from Louisiana Tech University. He obtained his master’s and Ph.D. degrees at Mississippi State University in quantitative and molecular genetics in 2005 and 2010. Dr. Adams’s research focuses on hardwood and pine growth and development, genetic testing, and deployment. Dr. Danielle “Julie” Carrier is a professor with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and is located in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas. She received her bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering and her master’s and Ph.D. in chemical engineering at McGill University in Canada. Prior to joining UA in 1996, she held post-doctoral positions with the Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and with the Plant Biotechnology Research Institute, Saskatoon, Canada. Her research program is focused on the extraction of carbohydrates and phytochemicals from biomass. Dr. Mark Cochran was appointed vice president for agriculture of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture in January, 2011. He is responsible for leading the university’s coordinated agriculture program including the Cooperative Extension Service and the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cochran came to Arkansas as an agricultural economist in 1982 after receiving his master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Michigan State University. He received his bachelor’s degree from New Mexico State University. He was head of the UA Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness from 1996 to 2006.
Dr. Andrew Nelson (@asnelson2) is an assistant professor of silviculture in the Arkansas Forest Resources Center, University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, and the School of Forest Resources, University of Arkansas at Monticello. He obtained his master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Maine, and bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines the response of planted and natural forests to silviculture. He studies growth and yield responses to silviculture, as well as the underlying mechanistic processes affecting forest productivity. Dr. Hal O. Liechty is a Professor in the Arkansas Forest Resources Center, University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, and is the George R. Brown Endowed Professor of Forest Ecology and Hydrology at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. His research focuses on impacts of forest management on water quality and soil sustainability. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan Technological University in 1994 and has been with the Center since 1996. At UAM, he has taught classes on forest hydrology, recreation, forest ecology, ecosystem ecology, and scientific presentation. Dr. Sayeed Mehmood is an associate professor of forest economics and policy in the Arkansas Forest Resources Center, University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, and the School of Forest Resources, University of Arkansas at Monticello. He received his mater’s degree from the University of Maine and Ph.D. from Auburn University. He joined the university in 2001. His research focus has been private forest landowner behavior, wood-based bioenergy, and ecosystem services from forests. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in policy, human dimensions, economics and statistics. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters and other professional societies.
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Dr. Don White, Jr. is a wildlife ecologist with the University of Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and Arkansas Forest Resources Center. He is also the James M. White Professor of Wildlife Ecology in the School of Forest Resources at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Dr. White earned his Ph.D. in Wildlife Science from Montana State University, studying grizzly bear ecology in Glacier National Park, Montana. Dr. White and his graduate students conduct field research on white-tailed deer, elk, black bears, and a variety of birds and small mammals. The over-arching theme behind his research program is developing scientific tools and knowledge to support sound natural resource management. Dr. White is a Certified Wildlife Biologist速. Dr. Douglas Osborne earned a Ph.D. in zoology with an emphasis in wildlife ecology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2010. Dr. Osborne worked as a postdoctoral research associated at the University of Tennessee and joined Arkansas Forest Resource Center as an assistant professor in July 2012. His research interests include conservation planning and land management impacts on habitat use and population dynamics of waterfowl and other gamebird species. Since moving to Arkansas, he has been engaged in projects assessing effects of timber harvest strategies in bottomland hardwoods on duck food production, movement and migration patterns of arctic nesting, white-fronted geese and mallards, and survival and recruitment rates of wild turkey jakes in the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, and Gulf Coastal Plain ecoregions.
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Shannon Lassiter ARK-LA Timber Harvesting’s Shannon Lassiter has been in business for 14 years and is a contract logger for Anthony Forest Products. Lassiter credits his success to a great crew and mentors in the logging community. “Years ago, Melvin Mills told me, ‘There’s more to life than just working,’” Lassiter said. While getting the job done and doing it right is Lassiter’s primary objective, he believes strongly in the importance of family and taking care of the crew members whom he trusts to make the right decisions. “Shannon Lassiter is one of those loggers committed to doing the job to the best of the expectations of the landowner, the company for which he is contracting and to his own superior standards,” said Scotty Booth, a procurement manager with Anthony Forest Products. “He is a forester’s dream to work with because he is quick to take care of any problems that arise.”
Lassiter’s specialty is all merchantable timber sales. He personally lays out his tracts and does all the dozer work when roads need to be built or creeks need to be crossed, and he then installs water bars when the tract is finished. He abides by all the recommended Arkansas Best Management Practices, is a certified Arkansas Pro Logger and contributor to the Log A Load For Kids campaign. He has served on the Arkansas Timber Producers Association board and served as a staff member for the In Woods Expo. More than anything, Lassiter is a family man. His wife is a media specialist at Warren High School and his boys are 15 and 9. He has been and continues to be the coach for both boys in baseball, football and basketball. They are also avid hunters. Lassiter is a member of Hermitage Baptist Church, where he serves as a trustee and finance committee member.
COMMUNICATOR OF THE YEAR
Champion Trees: An Artist’s Journey Linda W. Palmer developed this series of work over a period of five years, driving approximately 7,000 miles to document and artistically interpret selected Arkansas Champion Trees. An experienced Arkansas artist, Palmer opened her first art studio and gallery in Ft. Smith in 1985 and currently maintains her studio and gallery in Hot Springs. Arkansas Champion Trees: An Artist’s Journey is an aesthetically-pleasing, educational viewing experience for Arkansans of all ages from all walks of life. This traveling exhibit is supported by Plum Creek and Domtar, among others.
In March, the Arkansas Educational Television Network aired a documentary on champion trees that includes the artist and the art exhibit. The exhibit’s educational component, “Growing Champion Classrooms,” began distribution in June 2014, starting with the AFA Education Foundation’s Teacher Conservation Tour. The educational materials were supported by the University of Arkansas at Monticello School of Forest Resources, among others. Learn more about the artist, the exhibit and supporting resources online at: championtreesexhibit.org
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resources for generations.” According to Arkansas Forestry Commission District Forester Robert Murphy, who nominated McClellan for the honor, “Mr. McClellan’s Tree Farm is managed primarily in pine timber, ranging in age from four-to-five-year-old plantations to 80 year old mature stands. The hardwoods are mostly in streamside management zones to protect water quality.” In the last 20 years, McClellan and his son Doug have developed more than 40 miles of roads and fire lanes. Also, McClellan’s son and daughter and their families built a cabin on the property from lumber cut and milled on the site. “We do value our timberland for the production it provides, aesthetics and wildlife value, but of course our family values of faith, family, friends and country come first,” McClellan added.
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LOG A LOAD FOR KIDS VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR
Gay Pace
Since 1993, the Drew County Log A Load For Kids chapter has raised approximately $1,000,000 for Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH). Gay Pace has been an integral part of the Drew County group since 1996, along with her husband Grant and son Brice. Log A Load is definitely a family affair for the Paces. “Grant and I began working with Log A Load when Brice was a baby,” Gay explained. “Once he was old enough, he began helping with the event and it is now a passion for him, too. My family has been blessed in many ways and I truly believe that we are commanded to give back and I can’t think of a better way to give back than through Log A Load.” According to Brice, “My mother is committed to helping Arkansas Children’s Hospital because she knows Arkansas Children’s Hospital is an organization
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that you can have faith in.” “Several years ago, Gay stepped forward to coordinate our event and she has kept it going,” said Mike Pennington, with L.D. Long, who nominated Pace for the award. Held the first Saturday in August at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, the Drew County Log A Load For Kids event continues to draw big crowds and this year’s fundraising total is nearing the $100,000 mark. Whatever Gay supports, she puts all of her heart into it. “It is about ownership,” she said. “If you are involved with Log A Load you feel like ACH is your hospital. That makes all of us passionate about raising money for ACH and any time we go to ACH, we can see the kids and their families and know that what we are doing is making a difference in their lives.”
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FORESTRY EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR
Rhea Whalen
U.S. Forest Service Boston Mountain Ranger District Biologist Rhea Whalen builds partnerships with state and local resources to enhance educational programs for students in her service area—everyone from the U.S. Geological Survey to Parent Teacher Associations. “Rhea has provided many, many educational programs for my students over the past several years,” said Charlotte Taff, a counselor at Ozark Upper Elementary School, who nominated Whalen for this honor. “Additionally, she has helped us apply for several grants to obtain money for our forestry education activities.” Whalen is active in school and community activities. Following is a list of some of the programs that she has either coordinated or
participated in: Forestry Awareness Days, $30,000 More Kids in the Woods grant for a Van Buren 4th Grade Camp, day-long environmental education programs for six schools in the Van Buren School District, annual program on forest management activities for Ozark Garden Club and Ozark Kiwanis, Franklin County 4-H programs, Ozark Public Schools 5th Grade Boys & Girls Night, Shores Lake Kids Free Fishing, Deer Mountain Special Hunt, Fear No Career Day and Cass Job Corps Career Fair program. “Rhea is responsible for the design and installation of the only native plant pollinator garden in our community, at the district office,” Taff said. “The garden has more than 35 native Arkansas plant species. To fund the project, Rhea obtained $55,000 in grant funds.” Whalen has also earned awards from the U.S. Forest Service for her work: the Karl Urban Celebrating Wildflowers Award in 2012 and the Chief’s Honor Award for Cultural Diversity in 2014.
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PRESIDENT’S AWARD
Rep. Ken Bragg John Wainscott AFA President Ray Dillon has chosen to honor Rep. Ken Bragg, with Resource Management Service, and John Wainscott, with Weyerhaeuser, for their exemplary work on behalf and in support of the state’s forestry community. During his two terms in the Arkansas House of Representatives, Rep. Bragg has sponsored, supported and helped pass legislation that promotes a healthy forest products industry. In the 89th General Assembly, he served as the House Majority Leader. His leadership and support were instrumental in passing the sales tax exemption on harvesting equipment and the fire protection assessment, among other important bills. In 2014, Rep. Bragg sponsored a resolution honoring
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the Log A Load For Kids program on its 20th anniversary and led the House in a standing ovation for volunteers in the gallery. In addition to his continued leadership of the AFA Program Committee, John Wainscott serves the forestry community in several other capacities, including involvement in the LeadAR program—a two year program for emerging leaders from rural and urban communities—and serving as chairman of the Board of Registration for Foresters. Because of his commitment to outreach and education, AFA has honored Wainscott with its Outstanding PLT Educator award in 2006 and Communicator of the Year award in 2004.
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2014 AFA Officers and Executive Committee
President – Ray Dillon, Deltic, El Dorado Vice President – Pete Prutzman, Kingwood Forestry Services, Arkadelphia Secretary – Ken Bragg, Resource Management Service, Sheridan Treasurer – Steve Hanley, Plum Creek, Farmerville LA Aubra Anthony, Anthony Forest Products, El Dorado Steve Anthony, Anthony Timberlands, Bearden Allen Bedell, Circle B Logging, Hot Springs David Cawein, Pinecrest Lumber-Plumerville, Fiber Resource Division-Morrilton Tom Crowder, Bragg Land Co., Little Rock Glenn Gray, Georgia-Pacific, Crossett Robert Gray, Potlatch Forest Holdings, Warren Allen Morgan, Hunter-Wasson Inc., Arkadelphia Keith O’Rear, Weyerhaeuser, Idabel OK Wayne Owen, Crop Production Services, Monticello Frank Wilson, Wilson Bros. Lumber, Rison
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