Short Rotation Woody Crops Operations Working Group Conference
July 17-19, 2014 Seattle, WA
Friday, July 18, 2014 Opening Remarks
- Lynn Wright, WrightLink Consulting and SRWCOWG Chair
- Patricia Townsend , Washington State University
Opening Plenary Session
- Jeff Nuss, Greenwood Resources, Growing the Future with SRWC
- Patricia Townsend, Advanced Hardwood Biofuels Northwest: Renewable Biofuels for the Pacific Northwest [Slides]
Tree Improvement Programs
Moderator: Jeff Wright, ArborGen, Inc.
- Lawrence Smart, Breeding Triploid Hybrids of Shrub Willow with Improved Yield and Biomass Composition [Slides]
- Daniel Keathly, Assessment of Silver Maple (Acer Saccharinum) Seed Sources for Biomass Production in Northern Michigan
- Randy Rousseau, Hybrid poplar: Can they survive in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley [Slides]
- Jeffery Kallestad, Vole and Deer Feeding Preferences for Conal Variants of Poplar: A Role for NIR Spectroscopy in Predicting Consumption Based on Known and Unknown Compounds in Foliage and Bark
- Jeff Wright, Hybrid Sweetgum in the Southeastern United States [Slides]
SRWC Production Alternatives
Moderator: Ron Zalesny, US Forest Service
- Tim Rials, The IBSS Partnership: Advancing Energy Crop Supply Systems in the Southeastern United States [Slides]
- Bill Berguson, Development of Yield Estimates of Short Rotation Poplar and Mapping of U.S. Poplar Yield Potential [Slides]
- William Headlee, Using Process-Based Modeling to Inform SRWC Species Selection and Management in the Southeastern USA [Slides]
- Fred Gouker, Yield and Biomass Quality of Shrub Willow Hybrids in Differing Rotation Lengths and Row [Slides]
- Kurt Johnsen, Designs Growth, Photosynthesis, Cold Tolerance, and Survival of Eucalyptus benthamii Planted in the Piedmont of North Carolina
Management & Care of SRWC
Moderator: Rick Stonex, GreenWood Resources, Inc.
- Gary Kling, Evaluation of Short Rotation Woody Plant Performande at the Univeristy of Illinois Planting density effects on biomass growth of hybrid poplar clones in Michigan: A sixth-year update
- Kevin Hall, A growth and yield model for the Eucalyptus benthamii in the Southeastern United States [Slides]
- Raymond Miller, Planting density effects on biomass growth of hybrid poplar clones in Michigan: A sixth-year update [Slides]
Harvest and Handling of Short Rotation Woody Crops
Moderator: John Posselius, CNH Industrial America LLC
- Justin Heavey, Commercial production and harvesting of shrub willow crops in New York State [Slides]
- Shun Shi, Evaluation of a New Holland single-pass, cut-and-chip harvest system on commercial-scale short-rotation shrub willow plantations in central New York State [Slides]
- Dana Mitchell, Harvesting Trials and Coppice Response of Three Hardwood SRWCs [Slides]
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Sustainability of Short Rotation Woody Crops: Environmental & Social Benefits
Moderator: Mark Coleman, University of Idaho
- Alistair McCracken, Impact of biomass renewable energy on AFBI research station
- Natalie Griffiths, Environmental sustainability of woody biomass production for bioenergy in the southeastern United States
- Ron Zalesny, Contrasting Ecosystem Services of Hybrid Poplar and White Pine in the Upper-Midwest, USA [Slides]
- Danielle Kloster, Using RUSLE2 to Model Soil Erosion Potential for Shrub Willow [Slides]
Economics of Short Rotation Woody Crops
Moderator: Michael Jacobson, Pennsylvania State University
- Laurence Eaton, Enhanced National Feedstock Supply Modeling of Woody Crops for Bioenergy and Bioproducts [Slides]
- Nathan Parker, Evaluation of the economics of drop-in biofuel production from coppiced poplar grown on suitable rangeland and cropland in the Pacific Northwest [Slides]
- Michael Jacobson, Economically Marginal Lands for Planting Energy Crops
20 years of SRWCOWG: Looking Back – Lynn Wright, WrightLink Consulting & SRWCOWG Chair [Slides] Poster Session
- Recent Progress in the Development of Short-Rotation Woody Crops As Feedstock for Alternative Fuels
- Jessica McCord, Bill Berguson, Tim Rials, and Tim Volk
- Assessing Farm Landowner’s Interests and Concerns Regarding Bioenergy Crops in the Pacific Northwest
- Nora Haider, Shiba Kar, Patricia Townsend, and Michael Brady
- The Use of Short Rotation Woody Crops as a Waste Treatment Alternative
- Martin Blank and Richard Krygier
- Innovative Woody Biomass Supply Chain Optimization
- Derek Sidders, Tim Keddy, Brent Joss, Jared Salvail, Laura Chittick, Melissa Gelineau, Canadian Wood Fibre Centre
AHB Tours
- Advanced Hardwood Biofuels Northwest Pilchuck Field Tour