Common Ground Found? Revisiting the Findings and Recommendations of the Northern Forest Lands Council

Join us in Saratoga Springs, New York for the 2013 Joint Annual Meeting of the New York and New England Sections of the Society of American Foresters. The meeting opens at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, January 29, 2013, with pre-meeting workshops and Executive Committee meetings, and the General Meeting Opening Sessions commence Wednesday, January 30, at 9:00 am. The meeting ends on Friday, February 1, 2013, at noon.

Register Online Now! We are reaching capacity for this meeting. We cannot guarantee food for anyone who registers after midnight on Sunday, January 27. Therefore, register by midnight if you want to attend and eat! 

Please do not submit a paper registration by snail-mail at this point. If you wish you may bring a check and register as a walk-in, but as noted above, we cannot guarantee food at this point.

Hotel: The meeting hotel is full. You may contact Kathy Dankenberger from the Saratoga tourism bureau for information on our overflow hotels.

We are seeking donations for the Development/Forester's Fund! Please bring your donation items (books, wine, home-made cookies, company t-shirts & hats, etc) to the raffle table at the meeting.

Most recent Meeting Agenda.

Sponsors: We have had an amazing response by sponsors, see the supporter logos at the left. Please thank these organizations!

Meeting Exhibitors The exhibit hall is full! We have 21 booths scheduled:

• ACT Bioenergy, LLC
• American Tree Farm System
• Crop Production Services
• Fountains America, Inc.
• Greater Adirondack RC&D
• Haglof Inc
• Hunting Lease Network of NY LLC
• LandVest
• Laser Technology Inc/ Waypoint Technology
• Mason, Bruce & Girard
• NCP Coatings Inc
• Plum Creek
• Rainforest Alliance
• Seneca Trail RC&D
• Sewall Co.
• Tajgo LLC
• USDA National Agroforestry Center
• USFS Wood Education and Resource Center
• Voss Signs
• ForestMetrix
• Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Throughout this meeting we will be interacting with our co-hosts and colleagues from the Northeastern Forest Pest Council. We have worked hard to coordinate our sessions so that attendees may interact and move between both groups, and we look forward to NEFPC members joining us at coffee and meal breaks on Wednesday afternoon and all day Thursday.

For more background on the Northern Forest Lands Council, review the 1994 report Finding Common Ground: Conserving the Northern Forest.

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