Southern Pine Productivity Estimate Updates for the U.S. Southeastern Coastal Plain Region
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When:
Feb 20, 2025 2:00 pm US/Eastern
Length: 01:00 (hh:mm)
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Presenter(s):
- Dr. David Dickens - Professor, Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at UGA
CEU Credits/Certificate Offered:
- Certificate of Participation
- Georgia Master Timber Harvester - Continuing Logger Ed. (GaMTH CLE) - 1 hour CLE - MTH Category B Credit
- New York Logger Training - Trained Logger Certification (NYLT-TLC) - .25 hour NYLT TLC Credit
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Introducing emerging knowledge, practices, and tools on climate-smart and resilient forestry to the forest landowners, professionals, and Extension agents for informed decision making in the southern region. This webinar is a joint product of a consortium of four Land-grant Universities (Clemson University, University of Georgia, Auburn University & Alabama Extension System, and Alabama A&M University) in partnership with USDA Southeast Climate Hub. This is the third webinar in the "Resilient and Sustainable Southern Forests Webinar Series."
“Southern pine productivity estimate updates for the U.S. Southern Coastal Plain region” will be held on Wednesday, January 15th, 2025, at 1:00 PM EST for a presentation from Dr. David Dickens. Dr. Dickens will provide an overview of new productivity estimates (site index and mean annual increment) for slash and loblolly pine in the Southeast Coastal Plain region by soil type and nutrient levels (old-field versus cutover sites). In addition, Dr. Dickens will briefly cover ongoing efforts to improve productivity estimates for containerized longleaf pine plantings on cutover sites throughout the region.
Information presented during this webinar will assist landowners and natural resource professionals with properly matching species to site in the Coastal Plain region, which can positively influence forest productivity and carbon sequestration efforts. In addition, forest management practices that can help realize site productivity potential will be discussed.
The Resilient and Sustainable Southern Forest Webinar Series is supported by US Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food & Agriculture (NIFA) (GRANT#13729783).
About Our Presenter(s)
Dr. Dickens has published over 250 southern pine silviculture, forest productivity, and forest economics papers He is senior author of 67% of the papers and 70% of the papers are Extension publications. David and his Co- Principle Investigors (Co-PIs) currently have over 1000 applied research, education and demonstration plots in the SE US. David’s current main focus is on updating loblolly, longleaf and slash pine site index and mean annual increment estimates based on soil parameters by Physiographic region. These new SI and MAI estimates by pine species, soil parameters, and Physiographic region are meant to aid foresters and forest landowners in silviculture decision-making and to replace the old NRCS SI and MAI estimates. He co-authored two recent papers addressing loblolly and slash pine SI and MAI in the Coastal Plain: Zhao et al. 2024. Soil- based assessment of site productivity for southern pine plantations in the Coastal Plain of the southeastern US: (I) loblolly pine. Forest Ecology and Management 565 (2024) 122054 & 568(2024) 122111 and (2) Dickens et al. 2024. Soil-based assessment of site productivity for southern pine plantations in the Coastal Plain of the southeastern US: (II) slash pine. Forest Ecology and Management 566 (2024) 122093. He and his Co-PIs are currently working on the 133 loblolly GA Piedmont plots soils and tree data for SI and MAI estimates based on soil parameters. In Dr. Dickens Outreach/Extension capacity he annually teaches forest landowners and foresters using presentations (40-80/yr) in meetings, workshops and study area sessions, averaging 500-1100 attendees/year and 1.0 to 5.5 million acres owned and/or managed per year. Dr. Dickens received the 2016 SESAF Technology Transfer & Education award and the 2022 Forest Landowner Association Extension Forester of the Year national award. David was part of the UGA Warnell School Extension faculty that won the 2019 and 2023 National Woodlands Landowner Association award for Extension education. Dr. Dickens has a love of forestry that he has shared with thousands of 4-H students throughout his lifelong forestry career. Inducted into the Georgia Foresters Hall of Fame in 2024.
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