Tree Planting Overview – User needsBWG/FIA Meeting, Atlanta GA, May 21-22, 2013

John Paul McTagueRayonier Inc.

April 2013 SRS – website update by John Pye

Seedling production from Auburn University is more revealing, albeit without acreage statistics

The Southern Forest Nursery Management Cooperative only had 71% response

• Bareroot and container• Hardwood and conifer

Other groups augment some information

Occasional studies, such as the SJAF 2002 26(2), don’t provide a continual perspective of tree planting

I like the annual update used in Brazil to quickly convey the current status and change of planted forests

Yearly changes by state and species in hectares

Other university sites use the same data and help synthesize the information

Price of forest land/ha

Pine - price of cut and stacked large sawtimber

Useful data for industry

Nursery production by species and stock FIA assumptions used for acreage

computations (by state or physiographic region)

Genetic value of seedlings (generation, clonal, etc.)

Spatial distribution graphics Export features that facilitate 3rd party use

for economic analysis