Society of American Foresters Southwestern Section Meeting hosted by the Southwestern Section SAF September 24-25, 2020 Zoom – The Year of COVID

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September 24 Theme: Leadership in Forestry Draft Agenda
Time (all MDT, AZ is 1 hour earlier)	Presentation Title	Presenter
8:45 AM	Welcome / Meeting Logistics
9:00 AM	Opening Remarks	Tamara Cushing SAF President 2020 Society of American Foresters
9:30 AM	Working Across the Landscape – Collaboration and the First 20-year Stewardship Contracts	Jeremy Kruger Chief Executive Four Forest Restoration Initiative
10:00 AM	Why Scientists Should Have Leadership Skills	Andrew Sanchez Meador Executive Director Ecological Restoration Institute
10:30 AM	Break Snacks: Ice-cold coffee and rock-hard maple bars (on your own)
10:45 AM	Forest Restoration Triangle	Kent Reid Director New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute
11:15 AM	SAF's Science Programs	Nan Pond Chair SAF Forest Science and Technology Board
11:45 AM	Shared Stewardship in New Mexico	Laura McCarthy New Mexico State Forester
12:15 PM	SWSAF Annual Awards Presentation
12:45 PM	Wrap up

September 25 Theme: Leadership in Forestry SWSAF Business Meeting / Virtual Fieldtrips
Time (all MDT, AZ is 1 hour earlier)	Presentation Title	Presenter
8:45 AM	Welcome Back / Meeting Logistics
9:00 AM	District IV Update	Bev Yelczyn District IV Representative SAF Board of Directors
9:30 AM	Virtual Field Trips	Paul Sheppard Arizona White Mountains Greg Reynolds Talking 'toe on Mt. Taylor Pete Fulé Researching Fire With the Navajo Nation
10:00 AM	Break Snacks: piñon pine muffins and mesquite pancakes (on your own)
10:15 PM	Additional Presentations	Neil Chapman Flagstaff Watershed Protection Project Update Eli Jensen Association of Consulting Foresters, CF Program Al Hendricks White pine blister rust resistance screening and durability monitoring: Pinus strobiformis
10:45 AM	SWSAF Business Meeting
12:45 PM	Wrap up

Organizing Committee
This Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Section (Arizona and New Mexico) of SAF was organized by:
Mark Nabel Jim Youtz Al Hendricks	David Borland, Chair Craig Wilcox Paul Sheppard