“Status, Trends, and Future of the South’s
Forest and Agriculture Biomass”
August 29-31, 2005
University of Georgia
Georgia Center for Continuing Education
Athens, Georgia
This conference will examine the present level of understanding and potential use of woody and agricultural biomass for fuel, value-added products, new products, carbon sequestation and other benefits.
The Agenda for the three-day conference will include:
• Introduction to biomass as a resource
• Identification of agricultural and forestry biomass
• Commercialization, potential uses, and applications
• Challenges, issues, and barriers
• Harvesting and transportation systems
• Rural and community development
• Development of sustainable systems
• Environmental/Ecological issues
• Financing, planning, and organizing biomass projects
• National legislative review
• State-level actions and organization
• Nationally recognized keynote speakers from government and industry
• Field tour of experimental bioconversion facility
Who Should Attend?
Conservation districts, RC&D Councils and any public agency or organization
representative that is involved in potential uses of biomass to help make informed
decisions about the potential use of forestry and agricultural biomass at the
local or regional level as well as those in educational outreach.
Conference Sponsors:
- National Association of Conservation Districts
- National Association of RC&D Councils
- The National Association of Conservation Agencies
- The National Association of Counties
- University of Georgia Warnell School of Forest Resources
- University of Georgia Faculty of Engineering
- National Network of Forest Practitioners
- Southern Forest Research Partnership, Inc.
- Southern Group of State Foresters
- Southern Regional Extension Forestry
- Federation of Southern Cooperatives
- USDA Forest Service
- US Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management
- US Department of Interior, Office of Wildland Fire Coordination
- USDA National Resources Conservation Service
Additional conference details will be mailed in April and posted on NACD’s
website: www.nacdnet.org