Schedule at-a-Glance

The following schedule is subject to change (as of October 13​, 2020). All events are schedule in Eastern Time. 

The Longleaf Conference offers approved credit for events that meet Continuing Forestry Education credits (CFEs) requirements. Click here to learn more. 

Tuesday, October 20, 2020
24-Hour Access	Poster Sessions View posters at your leisure and ask questions of the presenter via the chat function.
24-Hour Access	Oral Presentations All sessions have been pre-recorded for you to watch at your convenience. Ask questions of the presenters via the chat function.
12:00pm - 4:00pm	Registration Desk Open Stop by, call or email us with questions about your registration.
12:00pm - 4:00pm	Tech Help Desk Open Having challenges logging in or building your schedule? We are here to help!
4:00pm - 4:45pm	Social Event: Longleaf Trivia ID it!...Pining for answers...Who said it?...Stumped…Longleaf trivia has these categories and more! We'll create trivia team using Zoom Breakout Rooms. Hosts: Lucas Furman and Lynnsey Basala, The Longleaf Alliance
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
24-Hour Access	Poster Sessions View posters at your leisure and ask questions of the presenter via the chat function.
24-Hour Access	Oral Presentations All sessions have been pre-recorded for you to watch at your convenience. Ask questions of the presenters via the chat function.
8:00am - 12:00pm	Registration Desk Open Stop by, call or email us with questions about your registration.
8:00am - 12:00pm	Tech Help Desk Open Having challenges logging in or building your schedule? We are here to help!
10:00am - 11:00am	Welcome and Plenary Session: Lonlgeaf - The Resilient Landscape Join The Longleaf Alliance President Carol Denhof as she discusses the significance of the longleaf pine landscape and its resiliency for our communities, forest health, and ecosystem diversity now and into the future. Carol will be joined by eight partners and longtime supporters.
11:15am - 11:45am	Session I: Expanding To New Audiences - Q & A The presenters from the Expanding to New Audiences track will be on hand for live Q & A. Preview the on-demand presentations by these authors in advance. Longleaf pine in our southern National Forests—a virtual field tour - James Guldin, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service Creating and connecting a small upland habitat fragments - Karen Cole, Stetson University The University of West Florida campus ecosystem study: gopher tortoise and longleaf pine populations in an urban interface - Frank S. Gilliam, University of West Florida Restoration of dominant understory grasses in the face of climate change: lessons from course-based undergraduate research experiences - Sally E. Koerner, University of North Carolina Greensboro
11:45am - 12:30pm	Visit the Virtual Trade Show Sponsors will be "in their booths" at this time for you to connect with them.
1:00pm - 1:30pm	Lunch n Learn Live Grab your lunch and join one of three concurrent lunchtime sessions. Connecting Sentinel Landscapes to Longleaf Conservation - Mary Lou Addor, NC State University & Susan Miller, US Fish and Wildlife Service Responding to Disasters: Lessons learned from the Timber Recovery Block Grant - Jim Karels & Tim Foley Women in Longleaf - Join us for this half hour casual, interactive networking opportunity for women landowners and professionals working in longleaf. Hosted by Lisa Lord & Lynnsey Basala of The Longleaf Alliance with Melda Boyd
1:45pm	Musical Moment: Silent Pines Abigail Dowd will perform and then take Q & A from the audience.
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Panel I: Communities Our panel of experts will share the latest on community focused programming, including organizers and landowners from The Sandhills Prescribed Burn Association, Sustainable Forestry and Land Retention Project, and RC&D Fire Adapted Communities Coalition. Panelists: Laurel Kays, North Carolina State University; Alton Perry, Roanoke Electric Cooperative; Jesse Wimberley, NC Sandhills Prescribed Burn Association; Angela and Shelia Rhodes, Landowners; and George Byers, Landowner.
3:15pm - 3:45pm	Session II: Recent Studies Q & A The presenters from the Recent Studies track will be on hand for live Q & A. Preview the on-demand presentations by these authors in advance. Livestock Management and Longleaf Savannahs: Environmental Change in Early-Colonial South Carolina - Grant Snitker, University of Georgia Recruiting under a canopy: effects of stand density on patterns of height growth, suppression, and release for individual midstory longleaf pine trees in southwestern GA - Benjamin Knapp, University of Missouri An Evaluation of a Multi-species, Multi-product Planting System: Six Year Results - Bill Pickens, NC Forest Service, Retired Five to eight year results of longleaf pine seed source trials in south Georgia - David Clabo, University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources Longleaf pine forest composition affects understory hardwood control with prescribed fire - Andrew Whelan, The Jones Center at Ichauway
3:50pm - 4:20pm	Session III: Restoring Diversity Q & A The presenters from the Restoring Diversity track will be on hand for live Q & A. Preview the on-demand presentations by these authors in advance. Utilization of new and emerging technologies to improve landscape inventory and monitoring capabilities  - Allyne "Lyne" Askins, USFWS Carolina Sandhills NWR Drivers of plant community biodiversity: understory dynamics in longleaf pine savannas of North Carolina - Alyssa L. Young, University of North Carolina Greensboro Expansion and population structure of transplanted wiregrass tussocks: Results of a 37-year study - Kevin M. Robertson, Tall Timbers Research Station Evaluating Existing Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Conditions using Forest Inventory and Analysis. - Joanne Baggs, USDA Forest Service, Southern Region Effects of pine litter raking on understory plant community composition, soil seed banks, and soil characteristics in longleaf pine savannas - Jennifer Schafer, Winthrop University
4:45pm - 5:15pm	Social Event: Happy Trees – Pixel Art Channel your inner Bob Ross as we create "art" digitally using a spreadsheet using Excel or Goggle Sheet templates. Host: TBD
4:45pm - 5:45pm	Social Event: Talking Fire Learn from two of the founders of the successful GA Interagency Burn Team how it got started, how it works and how you might form your own. Host: Randy Tate, The Longleaf Alliance and Shan Cammack, Georgia DNR
Thursday, October 22, 2020
24-Hour Access	Poster Sessions View posters at your leisure and ask questions of the presenter via the chat function.
24-Hour Access	Oral Presentations All sessions have been pre-recorded for you to watch at your convenience. Ask questions of the presenters via the chat function.
9:00am - 10:00am	Coffee Hour with Poster Presenters Poster presenters will be available online to answer your questions.
10:00am - 11:00am	Panel II: Longleaf for the Future Water Conservation Connections: How protecting and managing longleaf habitats benefits more than just the tree. Learn about the valuable role healthy forests, and restoration and management of those forests, play in moderating the hydrologic cycle and providing benefits to aquatic ecosystems and people. Panelists: Julie DeMeester, The Nature Conservancy; Steven Golladay, Jones Center at Ichauway; Steven Brantley, Jones Center at Ichauway; Moderator: Lisa Lord, The Longleaf Alliance
11:15am - 11:45am	Session IV: Successful Partnerships Q & A The presenters from the Successful Partnerships track will be on hand for live Q & A. Preview the on-demand presentations by these authors in advance. Helping landowners reduce fire risk, generate income, and enhance longleaf with a local biomass market - Ben Larson, Enviva Biomass; Jesse Wimberley, North Carolina NC Sandhills Prescribed Burn Association; David Halley, True North Forest Management Services The Coastal Headwaters Longleaf Forest: Restoration At Scale on a Working Forest - Jimmy Bullock, Resource Management Service, LLC National Forest in MS partnering with Enviva to further Restoration Efforts. - James Mordica, USDA Forest Service North Carolina Longleaf Honor Roll – A Model for Recognizing Longleaf Landowners - John Ann Shearer, US Fish and Wildlife Service
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Visit the Virtual Trade Show Sponsors will be "in their booths" at this time for you to connect with them.
1:00pm - 1:30pm	Awards Ceremony Help celebrate this years award winners and their accomplishments.
1:30pm - 2:00pm	Winners Circle Video Chats Join the award winners in their private chat rooms to congratulate them. 2020 Regional Longleaf Awards
2:15pm - 3:15pm	Panel III: Healthy Forests Fire Restoration: Experts weigh in on the challenges and successes of reversing years of fire suppression, hardwood encroachment, and busting the duff problem. Panelists: Nathan Klaus, GA DNR; Shan Cammack, GA DNR, Brian Pelc, The Nature Conservancy; and Charles Oliver, The Nature Conservancy; Moderator Jacob Barrett, The Longleaf Alliance
3:15pm	Music Moment: Wiregrasser Abigail Dowd will perform and then take Q & A from the audience.
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Session V: Increasing Wildlife The presenters from the Increasing Wildlife track will be on hand for live Q & A. Preview the on-demand presentations by these authors in advance. Bobwhite Quail and Longleaf Pine - Jessica McGuire, Quail Forever Sampling bird communities in the upland pine forest ecosystems of the West Gulf Coastal Plain - Daniel Saenz (Sines), USFS So. Research Sta. Bachman's sparrow population response to increased management effort - Jeffrey Marcus, The Nature Conservancy Conservation and restoration of the Carolina gopher frog: taking steps toward a longleaf forest with diverse upland and wetland ecosystems - Stacey Lance, University of Georgia SREL
4:05pm - 4:35pm	Session VI: Fire Outreach and Education Q & A The presenters from the Fire Outreach and Education track will be on hand for live Q & A. Preview the on-demand presentations by these authors in advance. Managing prescribed fires in longleaf pine ecosystems: Current constraints and future prospects - John Kupfer, University of South Carolina Fire in the Pines Festival - Michelle Ly, The Nature Conservancy Burning with Research and Training Objectives: A Field Station Case Study - Andrew Rappe, University of Florida Southeast FireWorks: Working together to build a resilient environmental education curriculum - Kris M Irwin, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia; Renee Strnad, NC State University - Extension Forestry Increasing the pace and scale of prescribed burning in all ecotypes including Longleaf Pine on the National Forests in Mississippi - Daron Reynolds, USDA Forest Service, National Forests in Mississippi
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Social Event: Tumbling Longleaf Ecosystem This is Jenga on a grand scale...with a longleaf twist! Learn more about this outreach activity and participate in the Crate Challenge. Hosts: Sarah and Thomas Crate, The Longleaf Alliance
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Social Event: LIT Gathering Details coming soon! Hosts: Ryan Bollinger, The Longleaf Alliance
Friday, October 23, 2020
24-Hour Access	Poster Sessions View posters at your leisure and ask questions of the presenter via the chat function.
24-Hour Access	Oral Presentations All sessions have been pre-recorded for you to watch at your convenience. Ask questions of the presenters via the chat function.
9:00am - 9:45am	Coffee Chat to Sponsors Grab a cup of joe and visit with the sponsors in their video chat rooms.
10:00am - 11:00am	Panel IV: Diverse Ecosystems Ecosystems Services Panel Panelists: Dylan Jenkins, Finite Carbon; Kevin Robertson, Tall Timbers Research Station; Josh Raglin, Norfolk Southern Corp; Moderator Ad Platt, The Longleaf Alliance
11:15am - 11:45am	Session VII: Healthy Resilient Forests The presenters from the Healthy Resilient Forests track will be on hand for live Q & A. Preview the on-demand presentations by these authors in advance. Selection Systems for Longleaf Pine: Implications for Spacing, Growth, and Wind Resistance - Seth Bigelow, The Jones Center at Ichauway Wind susceptibility of pines and oaks: Lessons from Hurricane Michael - Jeffery B Cannon, The Jones Center at Ichauway Opportunities for a resilient future for Tyndall AFB following Hurricane Michael - Melanie Kaeser, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Adaptive Management of Low impact Site Preparation Paired with Follow Up Manuel Release Treatments for Successful Planting of Longleaf Pine and the Impacts of Large Scale Weather Events on the Croatan National Forest - Steven Maharrey, US Forest Service
12:30pm - 1:00pm	Lunch n Learn Live Grab your lunch and join one of three concurrent lunchtime sessions. Making Big Pine Preserve a reality: protecting an old growth longleaf pine forest in North Florida - Susan Carr, North Florida Land Trust USFS's Unique Role in Longleaf Restoration & the Million Acre Challenge - Earlene Jackson, US Forest Service & Kyle Jones, US Forest Service Thirty for 0:30 - Social Lunch for Young Professionals in the Longleaf World. Connect with other colleagues young in their longleaf careers from across the range. Longleaf professionals age 30 and under are invited, but all are welcome! Hosted by Karen Zilliox Brown & Jessica Sandoval with The Longleaf Alliance
1:15pm	Musical Moment: Goodbye Hometown Abigail Dowd will perform and then take Q & A from the audience.
1:30pm - 2:30pm	Panel V: Land Trusts How Are Southern Land Trusts Meeting the Challenges of Managing Longleaf Pine Woodlands and Forests? Experienced land managers from four land trusts identify the challenges of and techniques used to manage their organizations longleaf pine resources. Panelists: Nathan Moyer, Lowcountry Land Trust; Hal Robinson, Georgia and Alabama Land Trust ; Jesica Blake, North Carolina Coastal Land Trust; Ivor Kincaide, Alachua Conservation Trust; Moderators Julie Moore, Southern Conservation Partners and Lisa Lord, The Longleaf Alliance
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Working Group: Groundcover All welcome to attend this ongoing working group.
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Working Group: Prescribed Fire Council All welcome to attend this ongoing working group.
4:00pm	Closing Session

 

Continuing Forestry Education (CFE)

The Longleaf Conference offers approved credit for events that meet Continuing Forestry Education credits (CFEs) requirements.

WEDNESDAY, October 21st 
Total Category 1-CF : 4.0

• Plenary: Longleaf – The Resilient Landscape (1 CFE)
• Session I: Expanding To New Audiences - Q & A (0.5 CFE)
• Lunch n Learn (0.5 CFE): Responding to Disasters -OR- Connecting Sentinel Landscapes
  
• Panel I: Communities (1 CFE)
• Session II: Recent Research Q & A (0.5 CFE)
• Session III: Increasing Diversity Q & A (0.5 CFE)

THURSDAY, October 22nd 
Total Category 1-CF : 3.5

• Panel I: Longleaf for the Future (1 CFE)
• Session IV: Successful Partnerships Q & A (0.5 CFE)
• Panel III: Healthy Forests (1 CFE)
• Session V: Increasing Wildlife Q &A (0.5 CFE)
• Session VI: Fire Outreach and Education Q & A (0.5 CFE)

FRIDAY, October 23rd 
Total Category 1-CF : 4.5

• Panel IV: Diverse Ecosystems (1 CFE)
• Session VII: Healthy Resilient Forests (0.5 CFE)
• Lunch n Learn (0.5 CFE): Making Big Pine Preserve a Reality -OR- USFS Unique Role in Longleaf Restoration
  
• Panel V: Land Trusts (1 CFE)
• Working Group: Groundcover (1.5 CFE) -OR- Working Group: Prescribed Fire (1.5 CFE)

Attendance will be verified using Cadmium viewing reports.​