2013 National Outdoor Recreation Conference
and
IUFRO Conference on Forests for People
Have you had a chance to check out the conference program? With the addition of the IUFRO Conference on Forests for People, there are over 150 speakers presenting 120 topics in 55 sessions. The planning team has put together five fascinating field educational sessions. And there are seven preconference tours and training, including Leave No Trace training, SCORP University and a trip to Mackinac Island. Wow!
Traverse City is one of America’s outdoor recreation wonderlands. It’s a small town with all the amenities and culture of a larger city. Bon Appetit has listed it as one of America’s Top Five Foodie towns. There are nine microbreweries in Traverse City and 35 wineries in the region. You don’t want to miss this conference!
I thought I would share some of the more enticing conference programs in this email. If you want more detail, download the full program. <https://recpro.memberclicks.net/assets/Conference/2013_conference_program_0…>
SCORP University – Pre-conference Training
Training session and discussion for State SCORP planners and others interested about statewide comprehensive outdoor recreation planning, the Land and Water Conservation Fund planning requirement to participate in the federal LWCF state financial assistance/grant program.
Field Educational Sessions
TART Trail Bicycle System
The Traverse Area Recreation and Transportation (TART) Trails is offering a session on regional trail development designed to explore how public-private partnerships can be developed to help initiate, maintain and expand non-motorized infrastructure designed to meet the economic, recreation, transportation, health and social needs of the community. Participants will learn about how unique partnerships have leveraged money and manpower to develop and maintain over 60 miles of trail in the region. The session will feature a leisurely 15-mile bicycle ride on the trails through Traverse City and stop at locations along the way.
Old Mission Peninsula - A national coordinated land use success story!
The Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy will be hosting a trip focusing on the multiple benefits (social, economic, cultural etc.) of a coordinated land use protection strategy on the beautiful Old Mission Peninsula in Grand Traverse Bay. This tour will showcase the on the local, regional and indeed national impacts of this effort and touch on areas of the township dedicated to fruit production, environmental protection, passive and active recreation, and the growth of the wine industry and associated tourism.
A River Reborn: Building a Prosperous Community through Dam Removal and Ecological Restoration
Join the Grand Traverse Conservation District for an exploration of the Boardman River Dam Removal Process. Participants will board a bus at the Park Place Hotel to travel to the Boardman River Nature Center where they will receive a multi-media presentation on the largest dam removal project in Michigan History. The session will include an examination of the unique, multi-sector collaborative process that was used to build community investment, raise over $4.5 million and manage the first of three dam removal projects to successful completion—on time, and on budget. The session will conclude with a ~3 mile flat-water paddle from the Nature Center to Traverse City proper, within a short walk of the Park Place hotel. Canoes, paddles and life preservers will be provided
Michigan Partnerships Gone Wild
Program demonstrations of DNR’s Recreation 101: Great Lakes Fishing in the West Grand Traverse Bay paired with “Catch & Cook” and “Gourmet Gone Wild” sessions including a chef-prepared meal, and finishing with DNR partnerships with the Michigan Grape and Wine Council and Michigan Culinary Alliance.
Pathways to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore & the new Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail
Superintendent Dusty Shultz and Deputy Tom Ulrich will provide a behind the scenes orientation to the park. We will go into the park to experience the spectacular scenery and learn about the globally significant perched dune landscape, past and present recreational uses, and efforts to balance public access with protecting natural and cultural resources. Participants will have an option to bike the new Heritage Trail with NPS planner Barbara Jameson. We will learn about the history behind the Crystal River acquisition and working with local and national land trust to protect its ecologically important natural lands and resources.
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Brenda Adams-Weyant
Association Manager
Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals
(formerly NARRP)
PO Box 221
Marienville, PA 16239
(814) 927-8212
(814) 927-6659 FAX
<mailto:Brenda@RecPro.org> Brenda(a)RecPro.org
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Bamboo Family Tree - Newly published research
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10th WBC Korea Technical Committee Formed
•
New Website Design
•
World Bamboo Day 2013
•
New Honorary Council Member - Fu Jinhe
IN OTHER NEWS
AMERICAN BAMBOO SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING
October 10 through 13, 2013:
The 2013 American Bamboo Society Annual Conference
will be held at Mounts Botanical Garden [http://www.mounts.org/] in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Simon Velez, Marcellos Villegas and other great bambuseros will be there!
Stay tuned for more info: [http://www.bamboo.org]
Bamboo Family Tree - Newly published research [http://www2.isu.edu/headlines/?p=4402]
Idaho State University researcher Kelchner helps solve 5,000-year-old mystery: team deciphers the Bamboo family tree
Source: [http://www2.isu.edu/headlines/?p=4402]
For more than 5,000 years, people have studied bamboo: its uses, growth forms, unusual flowering cycles, and its relationship to other plant groups. Until now, the relationships among the major lineages of bamboos, called "tribes," were not known with any certainty. But a new paper in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution reveals the ancient story of bamboo using DNA analysis and provides the most convincing evidence to date of their long evolutionary history.
The paper titled, "Higher level phylogenetic relationships within the bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) based on five plastid markers," is authored by Idaho State University's Scot Kelchner, associate professor of systematics and evolution in the ISU Department of Biological Sciences, and an international research team called the Bamboo Phylogeny Group [http://www.eeob.iastate.edu/research/bamboo/]
Although most Americans are relatively unfamiliar with bamboos, it is difficult to overstate their importance to the livelihood and economies of tropical nations around the world. In developing countries, bamboo stalks provide the principal building materials for homes, tools, and a myriad of useful everyday objects like baskets, fences and cooking implements. Bamboos also play a critical role in the world's endangered tropical ecosystems, particularly in mountain habitats and cloud forests where species diversity is high. Culturally, they are of central importance to the history, art and philosophy of China, India, Japan, and much of Southeast Asia.
The newly published paper represents a major contribution by ISU to the knowledge of such an important plant group, one of long-standing interest and value to many of the world's peoples.
The Bamboo Phylogeny Group (BPG) was formed in 2005 by Kelchner and his colleague professor Lynn Clark [WBO Honorary Council member] at Iowa State University to tackle persistent questions about bamboo evolution. The collaborative research venture now includes nearly 30 researchers in 12 countries.
Kelchner arrived at ISU in 2004 with a history of bamboo research and a new opportunity to finally address his questions about the evolution of these fascinating grasses. ISU has since become a major contributor to world bamboo research, despite the state having a climate so harsh that few bamboos can survive (none are native to the region). But Idaho made a suitable place to head up the data accumulation and analysis parts of the project.
Leaf material used for DNA analysis was collected by members and sent from far-flung regions of the globe including Indonesia, Brazil, India, China, and Africa. Once those tissues arrived at ISU, Kelchner and his doctoral student Amanda Fisher went to work, providing nearly half of the DNA sequences and all of the extensive computational analyses used in the study.
With careful methodology, the comparison of DNA from different species can reveal a "family tree" of relationships called a phylogeny. For bamboos, this phylogeny can be viewed as a road map to their evolutionary history. With additional data, the phylogeny can also help researchers determine when and where bamboos originated, what changes happened to bamboo bodies over time, and how bamboos could have spread across the tropical and subtropical areas of Earth.
Two critical components of the study were assisted by ISU's Molecular Research Core Facility, and Dr. Michael Thomas's EGG bioinformatics group on campus. The Core Facilty helped with DNA sequencing, and bioinformaticist Dr. Luobin Yang was essential in getting Kelchner's database for the project up and running.
Samples from Madagascar species were particularly hard to get, and the new publication is the first to include this group of bamboos in its analysis. That means the article presents the first-ever complete family tree of bamboo relationships at the tribal level.
The phylogeny contains several carefully tested surprises. New or unexpected relationships are observed that require an alteration in scientific names for many bamboo groups. A formal accompanying paper authored by the BPG does just that, creating a valid scientific reference for the new bamboo names used worldwide for these plants.
For the first time in centuries, the new classification should stabilize scientific names at higher taxonomic levels in bamboos. It was principally for this reason that the National Science Foundation funded the grant that allowed Kelchner and Clark to form the BPG and conduct the work.
This diverse group of woody grasses is native to five continents and consists of about 1,400 species. More than 40 percent of those species occur in South and Central America, a fact that tends to surprise most of us in the United States who think of bamboo as growing mainly in China and Japan.
For more information, visit the website of the Kelchner Lab at [http://www.isu.edu/~kelchner/Kelchner_Lab/Bamboo.html.]
The journal story can also be viewed at [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790313000626.]
10th WBC Korea Technical Committee Formed
WBO is proud to announce the formation of the 10th World Bamboo Congress Techical Committee. This Committee is charged with setting the scientific and technical concepts and topics for the 10th WBC, announcing the Call for Papers, reviewing and selecting the papers for oral presentation, and preparing the publishing of the WBC Proceedings. Nirmala Chongtham (India) and Jean-Luc Kouyoumji (France) will serve as CoChairs of the 10th WBC Technical Committee. The Committee is comprised of some of the most respected and progressive bamboo researchers from around the world, including Dr. Park Choong-Nyeon from Chonnam National University, South Korea, who serves on the Technical Committee on behalf of the National Organizing Committee. The first meeting of the Technical Committee with the Damyang National Organizing Committee will take place during the the Bamboo Festival in Damyang, South Korea, 3-5 May 2013. Also joining Nirmala and Jean-Luc for this initial meeting is Technical Committee member Lin Yayin (Taiwan). We look forward to this great collaboration.
The theme of the 10th WBC is "Bamboo for a Greener Future". For more information, for now you can read here: [http://worldbamboo.net/world-bamboo-congress/the-10th-world-bamboo-congress/]
The WBC website will begin to take on information to be viewed after 1 June. [http://www.worldbamboocongress.org]
Stay tuned for the Call for Papers at the end of June.
Many thanks in advance to the Techical Committee for their participation, contributions and valuable time!
New Website Design [http://www.worldbamboo.net]
If you have not yet looked, please do go see our new website:
[http://www.worldbamboo.net]
Thanks again to Watershed Media [http://www.watershedmedia.com] our friends who have made us look good for years now (Karl, I think it is 9 years!) have done it again with a fresh new re-design and easy navigation. The site is more active now, with 3 boxes on the home page which will change out featured stories. For the new launch, we have featured the news of our new corporate sponsorship with Saks Brands [http://www.sakroots.com] , [http://www.sakroots.com] the announcement of the 10th WBC Korea [http://www.worldbamboocongress.org] and the background of Technical Committee Chair Dr. Nirmala Chongtham [mailto:cnirmala10@yahoo.com].
All the information that has been posted over the years is still there, easily found, as well as links to the WBC Proceedings, PayPal link for donations and the Events page.
Take a look!
If you are interested to become a Corporate Sponsor, which gives your company logo & link high-visibility to our extensive global network, see here:
[http://worldbamboo.net/donate/]
As always, we appreciate your continued support ; thank you!
World Bamboo Day 2013 [http://www.worldbambooday.org]
OK everyone! It is time to start planning World Bamboo Day celebrations!
The week of 18 SEPTEMBER..........
What will you do? How can you help? It is a great opportunity to show the world the potentials of bamboo! Check our website [http://www.worldbambooday.org] in the coming months to see what is going on!
Send us your event announcement and we will post it on the website.
New Honorary Council Member - Fu Jinhe
Beginning in the 1990's, the early formation of WBO included collaboration with the International Network of Bamboo and Rattan [http://www.inbar.int] in our efforts to unite bamboo science, culture and exchange.
I.V. Ramanuja Rao, who is Programme Director of INBAR's Livelihood and Economic Development Programme, was instrumental in the formal organization of WBO ten years ago, and INBAR Director General Coosje Hoogendoorn has served on the Honorary Council for the past few years.
WBO is happy to announce that Dr. Fu Jinhe, Senior Program Officer of INBAR's Trade Development Programme, joins our Honorary Council. The Honorary Council [http://worldbamboo.net/about/board-of-directors/]is a group of distinguished researchers, business owners, architects, policy makers, etc who show dedication and commitment to bamboo as a vital resource. The HC acts as advisors to the administration of WBO and its goals & objectives. It is a volunteer organization, and there are no funds distributed to HC members. The WBO is funded solely through corporate sponsorships. It is a NGO with United States tax exemption status as a U.S. 501-c6 corporation.
Jinhe's face is very familiar to those of us who travel to bamboo events and tours, as he has been very active with INBAR, as well as the American Bamboo Society and European Bamboo Societies. He is staying quite busy organizing INBAR's China study tours, as well as recent projects in Ethiopia. Welcome, Jinhe!
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Date: 2013/4/1
Subject: 32nd SFTIC meeting - Invitation to Attend and Participate.
Invitation to Attend and Participate
We cordially invite your attendance and
participation in the 32nd SFTIC meeting on
the shores of Lake Hartwell in Clemson, SC.
The meeting will take place June 10‐13, 2013.
http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/sftic/
Dr. Patricia A. Layton
Professor and Director
School of Agricultural, Forest, and Environmental Sciences
CAFLS
132 Lehotsky Hall
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Phone 864-656-3303
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The International Research Centre in Agronomy for Development (CIRAD), the Agriculture Research and Higher Education Centre (CATIE), and The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), have jointly committed to organize The Third International Symposium on Multi-Strata Agroforestry Systems with Perennial Crops, to be held at the headquarters of CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica from 16th to 20th of September 2013.
Official language of the Congress will be English. Short abstracts for oral and poster presentations should be submitted on our website http://www.symposium--‐multistrata2013.org<http://www.symposium--‐mul%3cstrata2013.org> before March 31st of 2013
* Please contact us, preferably at: contact(a)xn--symposium--multistrata2013-qd2p.org
Sarah W. Workman, 302 Lumpkin House, University of Georgia; Tel: 706.542.9737 Fax: 706.542.8934
Dear D5 members,
IUFRO is co-sponsor of the coming World Teak Conference, March 2013.
Please be informed that the conference is posted in our Calendar of
Meetings, http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar/, it is therefore in the
activities page of 3 Units,
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-5/50000/50600/50602/activit…
. It is in our RSS feed, http://www.iufro.org/events/rss/, and will be in
GFIS, the Global Forest Information Service, http://www.gfis.net/.
The conference will also be announced in one of the next issues of our
electronic newsletter IUFRO News.
Please encourage your group to attend this conference which is attracting
some 800 delegates.
Cheers
Andrew
Andrew H.H. Wong, D.Phil.
Associate Professor, Wood durability & Protection
Convenor, IRG Natural Durability Working Party (WP1.7), www.irg-wp.com
Coordinator, IUFRO Division 5 (Forest Products), www.iufro.org
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
Faculty of Resource Science and Technology
94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak
Malaysia
Tel: +6082 582936 (direct line)
Tel: +6082 581000, Ext. #2936
Fax: +6082 583160
Email: ahhwong(a)frst.unimas.my
awong.unimas(a)gmail.com
Student Conference Scholarships
The IUFRO Conference on Forests for People
and
2013 National Outdoor Recreation Conference
Student Conference Scholarships
Motivated and accomplished students enrolled full-time in an outdoor recreation management, planning, or closely-related degree program are encouraged to apply.
Up to at eight student scholarships will be awarded for the 2013 National Outdoor Recreation Conference. At least half of the scholarships awarded will be to qualified students from within the surrounding region. A scholarship valued at $785 will be awarded to cover lodging, conference registration, and one-year student membership to SORP. Included in this total is a $250 check to be used for travel expenses. All scholarship recipients are expected to attend the full four-day conference.
The deadline for student conference scholarship applications is February 15, 2013.
For more information: http://www.recpro.org/student-conference-scholarships
Sponsor a Student to Attend Conference
Please consider being a student scholarship sponsor! Visit www.recpro.org <https://recpro.memberclicks.net/home> and click on the <https://recpro.memberclicks.net/assets/2012_Conference/sorp_sponsorship_bro…> "SORP Sponsorship and Exhibitor Opportunities" on the left side of the homepage. Any contribution amount is appreciated. Your donation will help cultivate a young mind preparing to enter the outdoor recreation profession. They are the future!
Don’t forget - SORP is a 501(c)(3) organization, making your contribution tax-deductible.
About the National Outdoor Recreation Conference
The Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals is proud to be sponsoring the 2013 National Outdoor Recreation Conference with the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). The theme of the conference is “A Bridge to Prosperity” that will highlight and showcase best practices
and case studies on how the outdoor recreation profession (planning, management, research and policy) is a bridge, connector and catalyst for prosperity through: Tourism, jobs, health and wellness, personal enjoyment and recreation; Education, environmental values, environmental stewardship; and Rural economic development and sustainable communities.
More information about the conference is posted at: http://www.recpro.org/2013-sorp-ffp-conference
About the Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals
The Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals (SORP) is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization formed in 1983. It is the Nation’s premier professional association supporting outdoor recreation professionals in planning, research, management, policy and administration. It is dedicated to the proposition that the welfare of citizens and visitors, communities, environment, and economy will be enhanced through opportunities for the public to experience and enjoy the outdoors.
For the past 30 years, the Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals (formerly the National Association of Recreation Resource Planners) has sponsored an annual conference for the outdoor recreation profession. Most recently, the conference has been held in Baton Rouge, Breckenridge, Portland OR, Pittsburgh, Austin, and Missoula.
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Brenda Adams-Weyant
Association Manager
Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals
(formerly NARRP)
PO Box 221
Marienville, PA 16239
(814) 927-8212
(814) 927-6659 FAX
<http://recpro.memberclicks.net/message/image/964c4456-f410-41aa-bf4d-dbd11f…>
FYI.
Cheers,
Andrew
Andrew H.H. Wong, D.Phil.
Associate Professor, Wood durability & Protection
Coordinator, IUFRO Division 5 (Forest Products), www.iufro.org
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
Faculty of Resource Science and Technology
94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak
Malaysia
Tel: +6082 582936 (direct line)
Tel: +6082 581000, Ext. #2936
Fax: +6082 583160
Email: ahhwong(a)frst.unimas.my
awong.unimas(a)gmail.com
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From: IUFRO Headquarters <office(a)iufro.org>
To: ahhwong(a)frst.unimas.my
Date: 13-12-12 07:02 PM
Subject: IUFRO World Congress 2014 - New Information on Congress Website
Sent by: office(a)iufro.org
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IUFRO Newsletter
XXIV IUFRO World Congress
"Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The
Role of Research"
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: October 5-11,
2014
http://www.iufro2014.com/ –
http://www.iufro.org/events/congresses/2014
/
CONGRESS WEBSITE UPDATE
Dear IUFRO Officeholder, dear Colleagues,
On behalf of Dr. Richard Guldin, Chair of
the Congress Organizing Committee (COC), I
am pleased to inform you that an update of
the Congress website,
http://www.iufro2014.com, has just been
completed.
The Congress site now contains
significantly more content, in particular
regarding the Congress scientific program,
http://www.iufro2014.com/scientific-program
/overview/. In this connection, please be
reminded that session proposals will be
accepted online from January to April 2013.
In addition, the Spanish language version
of the website now available at
http://www.http://iufro2014.com/es/ for our
Spanish-speaking community.
Please visit the Congress website regularly
to learn about newly added information,
important deadlines or logistic
arrangements!
Best regards
Alexander Buck
IUFRO Executive Director
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