Forestry Summit Agenda
Hilton Garden Inn (Garden Conference Center) - Columbia, MO
August 10-11, 2021
This is a tentative agenda and subject to change.
*** REGISTRATION IS CLOSED ***August 10, 2021:
12:00 pm - Registration Open
1:00 pm - Opening Remarks / Welcome
1:20 pm - Status and Concerns for White Oak
2:00 pm - Management Initiatives
Landowner Perceptions
Priority Geography Overview - Shoal Creek Woodlands for Wildlife
Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) Status Update
3:00 pm - Break / Meet with Vendors
3:30 pm - Views on Sustainability
Landscape Health Index
Review of Tree Mortality
Size Classes Impacted
Causes
Loss and Benefit
4:30 pm - Break / Meet with Vendors
5:00 pm - Evening Social (White Oak, Whiskey and Wine)
6:30 pm - Dinner (Garrett Nowell with Independent Stave Company will speak on the White Oak Initiative)
August 11, 2021:
8:00 am - Registration Open
8:30 am - Carbon and Climate
Role of Missouri Forests to Sequester Carbon
Carbon Credit Example
9:30 am - Maintaining a Viable Forest Products Industry
Pine Opportunities
Harwood Initiative
Drain Survey and Industry Demand on the Resource
11:00 am - First Round of Facilitated Sessions
12:00 pm - Lunch
1:15 pm - Second Round of Facilitated Sessions
Facilitated Sessions:
Maintain and Improve Healthy Forests
Carbon Sequestration (Opportunities and Alternatives)
Landowner Engagement (Programs and Needs)
2:00 pm - Break
2:30 pm - Group Leaders Will Report on Facilitated Sessions / Expert Panel Comments
3:15 pm - Closing Comments