Colleagues:
Registration is now open for the 9th biennial North American Forest Ecology Workshop to be held June 16-20, 2013 in Bloomington, Indiana. The workshop will focus on forest fragmentation but will include concurrent sessions on several ecological themes; some are listed in the announcement. Plenary speakers include Drs. Eric Gustafson (USFS), Daniel Dey (USFS) and Robert Swihart (Purdue FNR), and Allen Pursell (TNC). Updated conference information can be found at nafew.org<http://www.nafew.org/>. The conference will include a Sunday evening icebreaker, a Tuesday evening banquet, and Wednesday day-long field trips. Field trips will include tours of the Hardwood Ecosystem Experiment - a long-term forest and wildlife management study, Donaldson's Woods and Pioneer Mothers-old-growth forest remnants, the Hoosier National Forest - oak ecology and silviculture, Crane Naval Weapons Support Center - forest management on military bases, Marengo Cave - karst geology and ecology, and Indiana University Ecological Research - carbon flux tower and invasive species. Registration (nafew.org/2013-registration<http://www.nafew.org/2013-registration>) will cost $340 for the conference plus $40 for the Wednesday field trip. We have separated the field trip cost for several of our local attendees who may have already seen the sites, and for those who want to explore Bloomington and southern Indiana on their own on Wednesday. Early registration discounts end May 20. This program is not yet approved for CFE credit. After the program is finalized, we will be requesting CFE credit from the Society of American Foresters. We expect 11 - 16 hours of Category 1-CF credits to be approved, depending on which field trip is taken. Lastly, we are actively seeking posters for the conference. Guidelines for abstract submission are posted at nafew.org/abstracts<http://www.nafew.org/abstracts>. Deadline for poster submission has been extended to March 15. I hope to see many of you in Bloomington in June 2013! Mike R. Saunders Chair, NAFEW9 Planning Committee Assistant Professor of Hardwood Silviculture Department of Forestry and Natural Resources Purdue University 715 State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907
