South East US Travel
A study journey to America is planned for Finnvid Prescher and Dag Lindgren. We will rent a car and drive ourselves between the locations we visit. Note that I cannot access this site from abroad, thus it stands as I left it Sept 1, updates are not possible. Note also that we may be difficult to get in touch with after Sept 1. Finnvid carries a cell phone which maybe can be reached at +46 70 7304600 and maybe we can call, but that is far from certain.

Dag Lindgren (I) is professor of Forest Genetics at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden. Finnvid Prescher is seed manager in charge of about half the seed supply of
Sweden, supporting in the magnitude 160 million plants, including establishment and management of seed orchards. The main purpose of the trip is to get impulses/inspiration to be applied on establishing new seed orchards in Sweden and genetic management of seed orchards. Formally the journey can be seen as a part of Finnvids doctorand training, and it gives an oppertunity to move in wider circles than the ordinary job. Perhaps Finnvid will be more involved in tree breeding in a wider context after he get the PhD which is a reason to look beyond seed orchards. Finnvid has not visited USA earlier, I have spent some time in the US, but 80% of the places we visit are new to me also

Dag Lindgren is professor of forest genetic, personal homepage  Finnvid Prescher is seed manager, his company (Svenska Skogsplantor) in Swedish
Here you can see us together in a seed orchard close to Umeå

The doctorand work is presented at this link. We appreciate if matters related to this is raised. There are points in the already published material which has bearings on the P taeda seed orchards in the US, for example we arrive at the suggestion to have 8-10 clones in seed orchards of P taeda, which is a somewhat lower number than actually is used. Thinning algorithms for seed orchards are suggested (linear deployment thinning). Programs considering spacing and seed orchards life time has been developed.

The planned itinerary is as follows:

Sep  3  Sun Arrival close to midnight
Sep  4  Mon Raleigh, (Li and Isak) 10 am
Sep  5  Tue  Summerville (Gerwig) 10.30 go to Jameson Inn Jesup 912 4276800 (reserved)
Sep  6  Wed  Jesup  (Belonger) 8.30
Sep  7  Thi   Bainbridge (Purnell) noon
Sep  8  Fri Bainbridge  Jay (Purnell)
Sep  9  Sat
Sep 10 Sun
Sep 11 Mon (Nelson) 8.30
Sep 12 Tue  (Matherne) 2pm 
Sep 13 Wed Jasper Byram noon
Sep 14 Thi Texas College Station Byram
Sep 15 Fri  Texas Byram
Sep 16 Sat Flight from Houston 15.20
Sep 17 Sun Dag back Umeå, the plane is scheduled for 15.25 to Umeå , Finnvid stays on continental Europe

 

Seminar?: The following might be possible if there is a relevant audience (with some modifications, performer in hyphens):

If you are very interested in the subject and take care of us for most of a day and will get some interested listeners we may present any of those seminars.

I run a web (just truncate some of the adresses). A document about the history and organisation of forest genetics in Sweden is where.

What is the philosophy about reserve-grafts to replace non-successful grafts? Has rootstocks importance? Top-grafting?.

A relevant travel report by a theme from BC visiting mainly Georgia in 2000

Below some of the links are mainly for Swedish seed orchard discussions
Det finns två "PlantAktuellt" om SE USA och Sveriges inflytande, en av Gunnar Jansson och en av Dag Lindgren. Plantaktuellt är åtkomligt från SkogForsks web men filerna är stora och knappast hanterbara.
In SE US they often deploy seed orchard harvests clonewise, the practice is described and evaluated
About seed sources of southern pine

Seed orchard discussions:
En diskussion om tidsavståndet till vinst.
It has been discussed to renew the pine seed orchard Gotthardsberg, I wrote a discussion and documentation in connection with that
We discuss how to renew a seed orchard including topgrafting;
Toppympning (in Swedish)  I suggest we start experiments immediatly with top-grafting to get experienc of this technique to replace bad genotypes with good in existing seed orchards. Gotthardsberg may be a good candidate for pine and G3 Multrå for spruce!

How to climb a tree? http://www.fs.fed.us/treeclimbing/

Kanske besöker i Georgia? http://www.sfws.auburn.edu/sfnmc/class/collection.html