November 9, 2007 Release

Events for the upcoming Week: Nov. 9-18
(Seminars, Symposiums, Conferences, Events, Field Trips, etc.)

The Warnell School Alumni Association will host a Tailgate for the Auburn football game Saturday, November 10 at 12:30 pm in the Mary Kahrs Warnell Memorial Garden (Game kick-off 3:30 pm). This catered event will feature traditional tailgate fare and a variety beverages.

Dean Clutter has graciously agreed to pay for each faculty/staff member to attend the tailgate with a guest. Additional guests are $15 per person. Children FREE.

A PLT/WILD workshop will be held Sunday, Nov. 11 from 8:30am to 4:00 pm at Flinchum’s for anyone interested in enhancing their environmental education credentials. The cost is $40, which includes lunch, a PLT guide, People and Places Guide, WILD curriculum and Aquatic Wild curriculum. For more information, contact workshop coordinator Heather Fleming.

The NRRT Society will meet on Monday, November 12 at 5:30 PM in room 1-304. Featured speaker will be Page McCorkle, Assistant Director of UGA Costa Rica Study Abroad Program, discussing study abroad and internship programs that might be of special interest to Natural Resources, Recreation and Tourism students, including the summer Landscape Design program. Officer elections will also take place and annual dues ($10) are due at this meeting.

The next Forestry Club meeting will be Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 6:45pm in room 1-304. Mr. Gary Doster, education program specialist from SCWDS at the UGA College of Vet Medicine, will be the featured speaker discussing his career and personal interests. Food will be provided, so don’t be late.

The Georgia Forestry Association is holding its fall workshop, “Forest Certification: Navigating the Landscape and Discovering the Opportunities of This Evolving Forestry Marketing Tool,"  Thursday, November 15, 2007 at the Association headquarters in Forsyth, GA.This workshop will offer 5 continuing education credits for attendees.

Register today by emailing GFA to reserve one of the limited openings for this workshop. Additional information can be obtained by calling the Association office at 478-992-8110.

A Project Wet Workshop will be held Sunday, Dec. 1st from (:00am to 3:00pm at  Flinchum’s for anyone interested in enhancing their environmental education credentials. The cost is $35.00, which includes lunch, Project Wet curriculum and Urban Watersheds Guide. For more information, contact workshop coordinator Denise Carroll. 

Achievements from the Previous Week: Nov. 6-9

“In the News”

‘Major milestone’: Four university researchers elected AAAS Fellows
(Dr. Sarah Covert on of the four)
Read More Here

Range Fuels Breaks Ground on the Nation’s First Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
Read More Here

“Awards/Appointments”

The Warnell School Alumni Association was pleased to recognize the following individuals with Alumni awards at the School’s homecoming festivities this past weekend:

2007 Distinguished Alumnus Award was presented to James I. Alfriend (BSF ’69) a consulting forester operating his own company in Thomson, Ga. since 1983. After graduation he served three years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a Captain. He then worked for Continental Can as an area and district forester until 1978 when he became a consulting forester. Alfriend is a member of ACF, SAF, GFA, FLA, is a registered forester, licensed real estate broker and appraiser in Georgia and South Carolina.

2007 Distinguished Young Alumnus Award was presented to Brian Stone (BSFR ’99; MFR ’01) Director of Appraisal Services for Forest Resource Consultants, Inc. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Georgia Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, chairman of the Georgia Forestry Association’s Young Professionals Group, and as a member of the Warnell Young Alumni Advisory Committee where he is chairman of this year’s Alumni Golf Tournament Committee. 

Graduate student Amanda Newman placed third in the Forest Science and Technology Board Student Poster Contest at the recent Society of American Foresters (SAF) National Convention in Portland, Oregon. Her poster was entitled "Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Grass Community Restoration in the Southern Appalachians". Her abstract will be printed in the January Journal of Forestry.

“Research Findings/Outreach Service/Publications”

Warnell Grad Student James Martin organized the Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy and the Society for Range Management Bobwhite Project Field Day on October 26. The “Bobwhite and Rangeland Management” field day featured an educational field tour held on a private ranch in Kenansville, FL. Kenansville houses the primary study site used in research evaluating bobwhite and grassland songbird response to various management practices on rangelands and quail hunting plantations in south Florida, which is partially funded by the USDA-NRCS/MSU Bobwhite Restoration Project.

Drs. Dehai Zhao, Bruce Borders, Mingliang Wang and Michael Kane coauthored a paper "Modeling mortality of second loblolly pine plantations in the Piedmont/Upper Coastal Plain and Lower Coastal Plain of the southern United States" recently published in Forest Ecology and Management 252: 132-143.

The Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at The University of Georgia provides UGA students with five degree path programs in forestry and natural resource science and management, include the forestry, fisheries and aquaculture, natural resources recreation and tourism, water and soil resources, and wildlife management and ecology majors. With more than fifty faculty and 23,000 acres of teaching lands, the Warnell School is the southeast’s oldest, and one of the most respected forestry and natural resource education providers in the United States. The school also houses one of the largest study abroad programs in the nation covering all seven continents to provide global learning opportunities for its students. For more information visit the Warnell School website at www.warnell.uga.edu.