[Forest-list] FW: Forest Information Update Vol. 13 No. 7 - July 2012

[Info at Southem]

FOREST INFORMATION UPDATE VOL. 13 NO. 7
July 2012

Welcome to this edition of FIU – Please find below our latest batch of
articles, listing, meetings and web sites for the natural resource sector.
Also FYI, the latest edition of the Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry
Journal is out.  

PODCAST: A BRAZILIAN PROPOSAL FOR GREEN ECONOMY PRACTICE – co-authored by
Eder Zanetti, who is a Fullbright Scholar and is a Forest Engineer with a
PhD on Sustainable Forest Management, and Swapan Mehra. Forest Engineer,
PhD. You can listen to a podcast from Eder Zanetti at:
http://www.southem.com/2012/07/eder-zanetti-ecosystem-business-proposal/  

SINO-FOREST’S DEALS IN SPOTLIGHT - China-based Sino-Forest Corporation
appears to have structured a New Zealand forestry deal along the same lines
those for which it has been hauled before the court in Canada on charges of
massive fraud around forest asset valuations.
http://www.southem.com/2012/06/southern-hemisphere-forest-industry-journal-v
ol-18-no-1/ 

View the Journal at:
http://issuu.com/msatbms/docs/shfij_vol_18_1 
 
Please feel free to contact me for more information.  

Kind regards
Mike Smith, Editor and Director info at southem.com 

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INPUT - This month's input comes from: Gary Krupnick, Nelson Wong, Lance
Olsen, Tina Etherington, Gandhiv Kafle, Artur Gil, Ross Mayhew, Selva
Escalera, Colin, Infosylva, IUFRO, Hakim M. Abdi, Benktesh Sharma and many
more. Thank you all for sharing your information!

HAVE YOU HEARD? NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

RAMSAR COP 11 STRESSES ROLE OF WETLANDS IN ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE – The
role of wetlands in addressing climate change is to get a boost following
the 11th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP 11) to
the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as
Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention). Ramsar COP 11 took place from 6-13
July 2012, in Bucharest, Romania, under the theme “Wetlands: Home and
Destination” and concluded with the adoption of 22 resolutions, including
one on climate change and wetlands.
http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/ramsar-cop-11-stresses-role-of-wetlands-in-ad
dressing-climate-change/146392/ 

HANCOCK TIMBER BUYS TIMBER PORTFOLIO OFF FORESTCAPITALPARTNERS - The Hancock
Timber Resource Group has acquired 1.35 million acres of timberland from
Portland, Oregon-based Forest Capital Partners, Hancock Timber President Dan
Christensen said in a statement. Terms of the transaction, which closed
today, were not disclosed. Hancock Timber is acquiring 376,000 acres in
Louisiana, 573,000 acres in Oregon, 138,000 acres in Idaho and 264,000 acres
in Washington.
http://www.htrg.com/news_07_13_12.htm 

FIRST IUFRO-FORNESSA REGIONAL CONGRESS HELD IN NAIROBI - The First
IUFRO-FORNESSA Regional Congress opened on 26 June 2012 at the World
Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. Organized by the
International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) and the
Forestry Research Network of Sub-Saharan Africa (FORNESSA), with support
from a number of donor organizations and institutions, the Congress focused
on the theme, “Forests and Trees: Serving the People of Africa and the
World.”
http://www.iisd.ca/ymb/forest/iufrofornessa/c1/ 

SUSTAINABLE FOREST INITIATIVE AWARD TO WRI FOR WATER QUALITY RESEARCH - The
World Resources Institute (WRI), a global development and environmental
think tank, will receive a grant of $35,000 USD to research how forest
certification standards can help protect American lakes and rivers, the
Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) has announced.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sfi-awards-grant-to-support-water-quality-r
esearch-2012-07-16 

FOR THE 212 ISSUE HEADLINES HIMALAYA, the editors have reviewed 44 news
reports from 23 sources and selected 15 happenings in five countries.
Floods overwhelm entire Himalaya causing damages of unprecedented scale. For
the first time, police in Nepal seized huge quantity of pangolin scales that
was being smuggled to China. Guwahati, a city in north east India, has been
tagged as the most polluted city in the world. Fire gutted a
four-century-old architectural wonder in Bhutan. A critically endangered
bear has been spotted in Pakistan Himalaya after 6 decades. Download this
issue from:
http://www.resourceshimalaya.org/?s=trcontent&a=browse&con_id=f8fcc3c375a1ca
3032710d45c17b0413&title=July01;%20No.212 

BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED...
This section is devoted to resource inventory tips and miscellaneous blurbs
for whatever uses you care to make. Please limit contributions to one
paragraph or so. Thanks, Mike Smith.

HELP!

FEEDBACK
 
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE – “Pay it forward!”  If you can help with any of the
requests below, please take the time to do so. Your kind assistance will be
appreciated and rewarded. 

CALL FOR MEDIA: see what is at stake at world's largest Earth observation
conference - Media representatives are invited to a briefing before the
opening of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium in
Munich, Germany. The briefing hosted by ESA and the German Aerospace Center
(DLR) will begin on Monday 23 July at 09:45. The latest results and future
strategy in Earth observation and climate research will be presented.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=37820 

OPPORTUNITIES - Several readers of FIU are seeking employment in the
forestry field. If you have jobs available and are in need of good people,
please consider posting your vacancies in FIU (there is no charge for this
service)

FORESTRY OFFICER (REDD+) WITH FAO Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka. With Forest
Assmanment, Management & Conservation Division (FOM) of the Forestry
Department. For 12 months (extendable). See
http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/VA/pdf/FOM-815-12-PRJ.pdf 

CONSULTING UTILITY FORESTER, Winnemucka, NV - CN Utility Consulting, Inc. is
currently seeking qualified personnel for full time employment in the
Winnemucka, NV area. All eligible and interested persons are encouraged to
apply. The natures of duties, and the requirements for this position, are
outlined below. CN Utility Consulting (CNUC) is an Employee Owned
organization and as such seeks highly qualified and highly motivated
employee owners. CNUC is an equal opportunity employer.
http://www.getforestryjobs.net/consulting-utility-forester-winnemucka-nv-win
nemucka-nevada-29174192.htm 

RESEARCH STUDENT - BIOMASS SUPPLY AND DEMAND QUESTION - Debbie Buckley wrote
via the Forest & Wood Products Consulting Marketplace: “Hi All, I am a
postgraduate student at Imperial College London. I am currently undertaking
a research project looking at biomass resources for use in large-scale power
generation in the UK. Could anyone recommend any consulting reports or
publications that would provide an overview of the current and future status
of the biomass sector? In particular I am trying to find price-volume data
for wood pellets and torrefied pellets, as well as different stakeholder
views on biomass sustainability?
Thank you for your help.”
http://www.linkedin.com/in/buckleydebbie 

WOOD TECHNOLOGY AND WOOD COMPOSITES - The University of Göttingen, Germany,
invites applications for the position of a W2 Professor at the Faculty of
Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology. The position will strengthen the
research area of forest products.
http://www.iufro.org/discover/noticeboard/#c14607 

INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE PROTECTION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME - Enno Aufderheide
writes via Nepalese Foresters: I should like to inform you about this year’s
call for applications for the International Climate Protection Fellowship
Programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Applications may be
submitted immediately. The closing date is 1 December 2012. The fellows will
take up their fellowship in September 2013. Please note that anyone who has
already received sponsorship from the Humboldt Foundation in the form of a
fellowship or award is not entitled to apply for this fellowship. The call
is subject to the approval of sufficient financial means to the Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation. For information on the program and the online
application package visit www.humboldt-foundation.de/ICF 
If you have any questions about this programme, please contact
info at avh.de 

FINANCE AND CARBON MARKET SPECIALIST: FOREST, CARBON, MARKETS, AND CLIMATE -
Term: Full-time. Location: In Washington, D.C. with periodic international
travel. Deadline: August 1, 2012. Terra Global Capital is seeking qualified
Finance and Carbon Market Specialist candidates for the Forest, Carbon,
Markets and Climate program (FCMC). FCMC’s two major deliverables include
assisting countries with ambitious REDD+ plans by building capacity within
those countries to achieve long-term net emissions reductions from forests
and land use and contribute to the evolving REDD+ framework.
http://www.terraglobalcapital.com/press/Finance%20and%20Carbon%20Market%20Sp
ecialist%20-%20Forest,%20Carbon,%20Markets%20and%20Climate.pdf 

SUSTAINABLE FOREST PROJECTS SEEKING FINANCE SOUGHT - Alexander Watson writes
via Forest Investment Group: “We are looking for sustainable forest and
agro-forest projects seeking finance. Projects need to be managed ecological
and shall have high social standards. If these criteria also apply to your
project, we welcome you to send us your project descriptions. In the case of
interest please contact my by email so we can send you more detailed
information:
alexander.watson at openforests.com 

TENDERS CALLED FOR A PROJECT INVOLVING EUROPE’S LARGEST ARTIFICIAL LAKE. In
Portugal, Enterprise Development and Infrastructure of Alqueva, S. A. (EDIA)
and the Cross-border Association of Municipalities of the Lands of the
Grande Lago Alqueva (ATMTGLA) have launched an open tender for the selection
of participants in the project team "Riparian Villages of Grande Lago
Alqueva", which aims to seek solutions to boost the territory and the
potential created by the Grande Lake Alqueva, promoting recovery of the
endogenous assets and the local culture of five adjacent villages. It’s
expected the lake will become a prolific fishing destination. For more
information, see in Portuguese:
http://www.edia.pt/edia/images/docs/convite_para_estagios_projeto_aldeias_ri
beirinhas_grande_lago_alqueva.pdf 
More info about the lake can be found at:
http://www.lakelubbers.com/grande-lago-2016/ 

VACANCIES OF INTEREST AT CIFOR – Centre for International Forestry Research
has some vacancies of interest:
Research Fellow, Forests and Adaptation to Climate Change – CIFOR, West
Java, Indonesia
See all details -
http://www.envirocruit.com/en/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/905-research-
fellow-forests-and-adaptation-to-climate-change.html 

Post Doctoral Fellow, Management and Conservation of Forests and Trees –
CIFOR - Lima, Peru. See all details -
http://www.envirocruit.com/en/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/902-post-doct
oral-fellow-management-and-conservation-of-forests-and-trees.html 

VOLUNTEER TRAIL WORK - PTC writes via Forestry HR and Recruiting (USA):
“Because most of the Forest Service fielded employees in the Angeles
National Forest have been laid off and budgets cut, volunteers are trying to
keep up with the trash, toilets, and trails.”
http://crystallake.name/twork/30jun12/30jun12.php 


HAVE YOU READ?
Obtain from your local library or from the sources provided. 

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

BIODIVERSITY

Patrick A. Jansen & Ben T. Hirsch et al. Thieving rodents as substitute
dispersers of megafaunal seeds PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print July 16,
2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205184109
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/07/10/1205184109.abstract 

Sarah G. Allen, Joe Mortenson, Sophie Webb. Field Guide to Marine Mammals of
the Pacific Coast : Baja, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia.
BACKLIST. January 19, 2011.
http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=1&grou
p=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=51631&org=&sku=0520265459 

BIOFUEL/BIOMASS

Goerndt Michael E and Aguilar, Francisco X et al. Regional assessment of
woody biomass physical availability as an energy feedstock for combined
combustion in the US northern region. Date: 2012. 
Source: Journal of Forestry. April/May: 138-148.
http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/40758 

Shrikant A. Survase, Evangelos Sklavounos, German Jurgens, Adriaan van
Heiningen, Tom Granström. Continuous acetone–butanol–ethanol fermentation
using SO2–ethanol–water spent liquor from spruce. Bioresource Technology.
Volume 102, Issue 23, December 2011, Pages 10996–11002. Original Research
Article. Pages 10996-11002.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960852411013034 

Ruengwit Sawangkeaw et al. Biofuel production from crude palm oil with
supercritical alcohols: Comparative LCA Studies. Bioresource Technology.
Volume 120, September 2012, Pages 6–12 Original Research Article. Pages 6-12
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960852412009182 

CLASSIFICATION/MAPPING

N. R. Kaye, A. Hartley, and D. Hemming. Mapping the climate: guidance on
appropriate techniques to map climate variables and their uncertainty.
Geosci. Model Dev., 5, 245-256, 2012.
http://www.geosci-model-dev.net/5/245/2012/gmd-5-245-2012.html 

Atlas of Winter Migratory Birds of Portugal accessible by WebGIS (Atlas das
Aves Invernantes e Migradoras de Portugal acessível por WebGIS).  The Atlas
of Winter Migratory  Birds of Portugal aims to produce maps of distribution
and relative abundance for all species of migratory birds in Portugal and
Islands. In November 2013, a final monograph will be produced, in color,
with the specific results and synecologies from this project. The issue
referred to will be in electronic format.
http://www.spea.pt/pt/estudo-e-conservacao/censos/atlas-aves-invernantes-e-m
igradoras/resultados-e-divulgacao/ 

P. H. A. Martin-Kaye and G. M. Lawrence. The Application of Satellite
Imaging Radars over Land to the Assessment, Mapping and Monitoring of
Resources Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 18 July 1983 vol. 309 no. 1508
295-314
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/309/1508/295.abstract?sid=b10
522ad-c6c4-43d5-be74-52d23183fbd4 

CLIMATE CHANGE/CARBON 

Mark G. New, Diana M. Liverman, Richard A. Betts, Kevin L. Anderson and
Chris C. West. Four degrees and beyond: the potential for a global
temperature increase of four degrees and its implications a Thematic Issue
compiled and edited by authors for January 13, 2011; 369 (1934) issue of
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. 
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1934.toc 

Included in this issue is the following article:

Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows. Beyond ‘dangerous’ climate change: emission
scenarios for a new world. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 13 January 2011 vol. 369
no. 1934 20-44
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1934/20.short?rss=1&amp%3
bssource=mfr 

Daniel P. Schrag. Confronting the Climate-Energy Challenge. ELEMENTS June
2007 v. 3 no. 3 p. 171-178.
http://elements.geoscienceworld.org/content/3/3/171.abstract 

Ralph F. Keeling and Hernan E. Garcia. The change in oceanic O2 inventory
associated with recent global warming PNAS 2002 99 (12) 7848-7853; published
ahead of print June 4, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.122154899 

Philip M. Fearnside. Do Hydroelectric Dams Mitigate Global Warming? The Case
of Brazil's Curuá-Una Dam. National Institute for Research in the Amazon
(INPA), C.P. 478, 69011-970 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
http://philip.inpa.gov.br/publ_livres/Preprints/In%20press/Curua-Una%20MITI-
7.htm 

Only One Earth. The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development. By Felix
Dodds, Michael Strauss, Maurice F. Strong. Published May 24th 2012 by
Routledge – 312 pages
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415540254/?utm_medium=email 

INVENTORY/MONITORING

Fred Raafat. Survey of Literature on Continuously Deteriorating Inventory
Models. The Journal of the Operational Research Socity. Vol. 42, No. 1
(Jan., 1991), pp 27-37.
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2582993?uid=3738776&uid=2&uid=4&sid=47
699136696247 

J. Robbins et al. Development of an inventory management tool using visual
imagery from a multirotor aerial platform. Jan 2012. Aragriculture.org,
papers.
http://www.aragriculture.org/horticulture/nursery_automation/papers/Robbins_
SNA_MRRSS_Jan2012.pdf 

Elias Ntungwe Ngalame. Cameroon to protect forests with satellite
monitoring. Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:58 GMT. Source: alertnet.
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/cameroon-to-protect-forests-with-satellit
e-monitoring/ 

LEGAL MATTERS

Benjamin Cashore and Michael W. Stone. Can legality verification rescue
global forest governance?: Analyzing the potential of public and private
policy intersection to ameliorate forest challenges in Southeast Asia.
Forest Policy and Economics. Volume 18, May 2012, Pages 13–22
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934111001961 

Moving Forward with Forest Governance - ETFRN News 53: The 29 articles in
this issue of ETFRN News showcase a rich diversity of examples of how forest
governance has been addressed in various settings. The full issue or each
article individually can be downloaded from the ETFRN website: 
http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/newsletter/news53/index.html 

MISCELLANEOUS

Angelsen, A.; Brockhaus, M.; Sunderlin, W.D.; Verchot, L.V. (eds). Analysing
REDD+: Challenges and choices. Center for International Forestry Research
(CIFOR) Bogor, Indonesia. 2012.
http://www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publication/3805
.html 

REMOTE SENSING/GIS

Gil, A. (2011). Using remote sensing data to support the development of
methods for territorial and natural resources’ characterization, assessment,
planning and management. Ph.D. Thesis. University of the Azores. Ponta
Delgada, Portugal: 173 p.
https://repositorio.uac.pt/handle/10400.3/1331 

Ronald E. McRoberts et al. Special Issue: 25th Anniversary Jubilee Issue
Looking beyond to shape the future - Using remotely sensed data to construct
and assess forest attribute maps and related spatial products. Scandinavian
Journal of Forest Research. Volume 25, Issue 4, 2010. pages 340-367
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02827581.2010.497496 

Jeffery A. Cavner, Aimee M. Stewart, Charles J. Grady, James H. Beach. An
innovative Web Processing Services based GIS architecture for global
biogeographic analyses of species distributions. OSGeo Journal, Volume 10 -
FOSS4G 2011 Proceedings.
http://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal/article/view/195 

RESOURCE ANALYSIS/MODELING

Thomas Falk, Bjoern Vollan, Michael Kirk. Analysis of material, social, and
moral governance in natural resource management in southern Namibia.
International Journal of the Commons, North America, , May. 2012.
http://ojscom.library.uu.nl/index.php/ijc/article/view/307 

Trevor J. Davis & C. Peter Keller. Modelling uncertainty in natural resource
analysis using fuzzy sets and Monte Carlo simulation: slope stability
prediction. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. pages
409-434. Volume 11, Issue 5, 1997. DOI: 10.1080/136588197242239
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/136588197242239 

Richard H.H. Moll Daniel E. Lane. Introduction to the Special Issue 2011
World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling, Ottawa Canada. Natural
Resource Modeling. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2012.00132.x. Article first
published online: 12 JUL 2012.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1939-7445.2012.00132.x/abstract
;jsessionid=B7C7ACF260C86E37185632F9C8CD6432.d04t03?deniedAccessCustomisedMe
ssage=&userIsAuthenticated=false 

SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT

Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: The
attained and the attainable. Recently released review paper (along with the
supplementary materials) by Jack Putz et al. Available at:
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-1/10000/10200/publications/ 

CAPTURED ON VIDEO

TEMPERATE AND BOREAL FORESTS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE. BirdLife
International delegation member Mel Coath talks about why termperate and
boreal forests are important in the fight against climate change and how
they need to protected as part of any future deal (interview at the UNCCC
COP17, December 2011, for OneWorld TV).
http://www.birdlife.org/community/2011/12/why-termperate-and-boreal-forests-
are-important-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/ 

VIET NAM RECLAIMS FOREST LAND WITH HELP FROM FAO - The UN’s Food and
Agricultural Organization (FAO) says more nations around the world are
realizing the positive contribution that the forestry industry can make to
the development of a green economy. In Viet Nam, the loss of forested areas
has been reversed and the country is now increasing forest area by about one
percent every year. Julie Walker reports.

MAKING OF A FORESTER – UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON SUMMER FORESTRY
CAMP. Here’s a nice video on this year’s Forestry Summer Camp, prepared by
Sevie Kenyon and Nicole Miller from CALS External Relations.
http://ecals.cals.wisc.edu/teaching-advising/2012/07/16/video-2012-forestry-
summer-camp/ 

YOU'RE INVITED!

30 July to 5 August 2012. The Ecology Center Functional, of the University
of Coimbra, the Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra and the Forest United,
are organizing the 10th Field of Scientific Work on Invasive Plant Control
(CTC), which this year will run from 30 July to 5 August 2012, in the Serra
da Lousã, Portugal.
http://www.ci.uc.pt/invasoras/ 

5-12 August 2012. Ecological Society of America - The 97th Annual Meeting
will be held, in Portland, OR. This meeting’s theme is "Life on Earth:
Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems”.
http://esa.org/portland/ 

9-12 September 2012. 4th International Faustmann Symposium, Forest Economics
under Multiple Challenges. Saariselkä, Lapland, Finland. University of
Helsinki, Department of Forest Sciences.
http://www.helsinki.fi/forestsciences/4th_faustmann/index.html 

12-13 December 2012. International Conference on Forest Mountain & People
2012. Colombo, Sri Lanka.
http://www.icimod.org/?q=6525

4-7 May 2012. Geography International Symposium - Climate Change for
Sustainability. Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
http://www.geographysymposium.geo.ugm.ac.id/geography_symposium.html

21-26 October 2012. International Forestry Graduate Students' Conference
2012 (FORGRAD 2012). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Faculty of Forestry, Universiti
Putra Malaysia, in collaboration with the Academy of Science Malaysia.
Contact: technical.forgrad2012(at)gmail.com
http://www.forr.upm.edu.my/index.php/ifgsc-forgrad2012

13-15 November 2012. Modern Problems of Forestry and Forest Management. St.
Petersburg, Russia.IUFRO 3.00.00, Contact: Maxim Chubinsky,
mchubinsky(at)gmail.com
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-3/30000/
IUFRO 4.00.00, http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/

22-27 November 2012. Gender and Forestry Conference: Environmental
governance and four decades of gender research: Where do we stand? Wondo
Genet Forestry College, Ethiopia. IUFRO 6.08.00,
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-6/60000/60800/ 
Contact: Gun Lidestav, Gun.Lidestav(at)slu.se
http://www.slu.se/en/faculties/s/about-the-faculty/departments/srh-en/sectio
ns/forest-resource-analysis/forest-in-rural-studies/gender-and-forestry-conf
erence-2012/

6-7 December 2012. Illegal Logging and Legality Verification – The FLEGT /
VPA as New Modes of Governance. University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Deadline
for abstracts: 15 May 2012. Contact: Kirsten Carlsen: kica(at)life.ku.dk
http://sl.life.ku.dk/English/outreach_publications/Conferences/flegt.aspx

13-15 March 2013. Small Log Conference. Forest Business Network’s 6th
Bi-Annual Small Log Conference. Coeur d’Alene Resort in Coeur d’Alene,
Idaho.
http://www.forestbusinessnetwork.com/our-events/slc/

July 22-25, 2013, the conference Forest Genetics 2013 will be held in
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. This conference is a joint meeting of
four organizations:
www.forestgenetics2013.ca

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