Determining Seed Zones for the Southern Pines: Past and Future
Webinar Details
When:
Mar 22, 2017 11:00 am US/Eastern
Length: 00:44 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Presenter(s):
- Dr. Ron Schmidtling, USDA Forest Service, Scientist Emeritus
Virtual Event Format:
Group Viewing Available:
The first of the Eastern Seed Zone Forum's online lecture and discussion hours aimed at providing both information about the creation of seed zones in general and a forum in which professionals, experts, and interested parties discuss the possibility of drafting seed zone guidelines for the eastern United States.
The National Forest System needs your help to develop seed zones for the eastern United States! With the input of forestry and natural resource professionals like you, these seed zones have the potential to provide a common frame of reference for nurseries, arboreta, state and federal agencies, and other natural resource organizations to address sustainable forest management and ecosystem restoration challenges across regional and political boundaries.
Please join the USDA Forest Service Reforestation, Nurseries, and Genetic Resources team for a preliminary discussion about what it will take to create seed zone guidelines* to serve as tools for improved collaboration and partnership in the region. After a brief lecture by Dr. Ron Schmidtling, Scientist Emeritus for the USDA Forest Service, on his own work in determining seed zones for southern pines, participants will share their own expertise and have further opportunities to get involved in the effort.
About the Eastern Seed Zone Forum
Who we are:
- The Reforestation, Nurseries, and Genetic Resources (RNGR) team, part of the USDA Forest Service State and Private Forestry for Northeast Area, Region 8, and the National Seed Laboratory.
- USDA Forest Service, National Forest System Regions 8-9,
- USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station
What is the charge: determining seed zones for the eastern US, a region spanning 24 states, from Maine to Minnesota, Texas to Florida. This effort is intended to develop seed zones for trees and smaller subzones for non-woody plants.
What is a seed zone? A seed zone is defined as a region with homogenous climate and topography. Plants/trees residing within a seed zone possess, in theory, similar adaptations to local conditions.
Who is invited to collaborate?:
We invite natural resource professionals, or conservation practitioners, from public agencies (federal, state, county, etc), universities, NGOs and industries to help us in this endeavor.
What can collaborators do?
- Listen to the webinars.
- Share any additional science articles, partners, or potential speakers
- Engage with others to form a regional working team to help construct seed zones for your area.
- Participate in a summit planned for May 2018 in Kentucky to put the zones together.
- Provide feedback on a final report.
The webinar will coincide with the opening of the new Eastern Seed Zone Forum Website, which will offer resources and more ways to get involved.
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