2023 Inland Empire Tree Improvement Cooperative (IETIC) Annual Meeting
Location: Coeur d'Alene, ID
7:00 Registration
8:00 Welcome
8:05 The Texas Tree Improvement Two-Step: Using Your Past to Guide Your Future – Fred Raley, Texas A&M Forest Service
9:05 Pining for Home: Seed Transfer 2.0 – Greg O’Neill, British Columbia Ministry of Forests
10:05 Break
10:35 Hot topics – Genomics and Climate-based Seed Deployment Research by the Pacific Northwest Tree Improvement Research Cooperative – Glenn Howe, Oregon State University
11:35 Western Larch Species Group Report – Kelsie Grover
11:45 Western White Pine Species Group Report – Don Patterson
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Low Carbs aren’t for Trees: the Link between Non‐structural Carbohydrate Storage and Plant Water Relations – Anna Sala, University of Montana
2:00 Happy Trees, Happy Seed – Seed Orchard Psychology 101 – Kat Spencer, British of Columbia Ministry of Forests
3:00 Break
3:20 Title Pending – Vovener Edmond, University of Idaho
3:50 Russell H. Hudson Tree Improvement Award for Excellence – Student Experience – Sarah Larson, University of Idaho
4:05 Seed Supply Working Group Reports – Marc L. Rust
The IETIC Steering Committee will meet March 9, 2023 and the Inland Empire Reforestation Council will meet March 7, 2023.
The registration fee is $130 per person if paid by February 15th, and $160 starting February 16th. Fee includes breaks, lunch, and meeting supplies.
Room reservations at the Coeur d’Alene Resort can be made by calling 888-965-6542. A block of rooms will be held until February 6, 2023 under "Inland Empire Reforestation Council" (we share the room block with IERC). Lake Tower rooms, single or double, are available at $135 plus tax. Park Tower and North Wing rooms, single or double, are available at the prevailing per-diem rate plus tax. After February 6th group rooms will be on a space available basis.