Events

Friday, Sept. 11, 2009

11:00 a.m. | Keynote presentation: "Our Legacy of the Past Leads Us into the Future."
Dale Bosworth (For. Mgmt. '66) Emeritus U.S. Forest Service Chief
University Auditorium, Administration Building

12:30 p.m. | Celebration Luncheon
"Under the Tent" on the "Mall" west of the CNR Building (Lawn Between Ag Science and CNR)

2:30 p.m. | CNR Teaching, Research, and Outreach in the 21st Century – Our Next 100 Years
CNR Faculty and graduate students will focus on changes in teaching, research and service as we look ahead to create the next generation of leaders. Themes include: our evolving environmental law and policy challenges; structural changes in the forest products industry; water – a valuable ecosystem service; the future of geospatial sciences landscape genetics and endangered species; conservation leadership; emerging directions in public land management; restoration of rangeland ecosystems; fire in our  landscape; parks and protected areas in the 21st century; biofuels and biomaterials from the forest and rangelands of tomorrow; regeneration of our native plants, forests, and arid lands as we respond to climate change; the outlook for our fisheries resources; and other topics.
Concurrent sessions in the CNR Building | Specific Locations TBA

3:30 p.m. | Break

4:00 p.m. | Continuation of Concurrent Sessions by CNR faculty and graduate students

5:00 p.m. | Individual receptions and reunions for departments, programs, and/or class decades
(more information on these will “evolve” over the next couple of months as we hear from you).

Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009

Optional tours will occur at various time during the day.

9:00 a.m. | Two field trips and golf will be five to six-hour events, returning between 2-3 p.m.  These trips have a charge as indicated on the registration form, and include lunch.

• University Experimental Forest ($25) – led by Professor Penny Morgan, fire ecologist, and Ross Appelgren (For Res ’75), forest manager.  Visits will include sites of recent activities on the forest related to teaching the prescribed burn class, silviculture classes and others; research activities; and partnership activities. Sign up for the Experimental Forest Tour
  
  
• Mica Creek ($25) – led by Professor Tim Link, forest hydrologist, and others involved in this long-term, forest/watershed research project in cooperation with Potlatch Corp. Sign up for the Mica Creek Tour
  
  
• Elks Club Golf Outing ($40) – organized by Professor Ron Mahoney. Email: rmahoney@uidaho.edu; Phone: (208) 885-7642. Sign up for the Elks Club Golf Outing
  

Various Times | The following activities will take place on Saturday and have no charge.  We would like those interested to register for these trips so we can gauge the appropriate support for them.  If there is enough interest, most can be repeated once or twice during the day.

• Franklin H. Pitkin Forest Nursery – led by Professor Anthony Davis.  Tour of the nursery operations and current research projects underway at the Center for Forest Nursery and Seedling Research.  Meet at the Pitkin Nursery on the Troy Highway; 1.5-2 hour tours; 10 a.m. and/or 1 p.m. depending on interest. Sign up for the Pitkin Nursery Tour
  
  
• Guided walks through the University of Idaho Arboretum – arranged by Professor George Newcombe, and led by Arboretum Horticulturist Paul Warnick.  1 hour walks; 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sign up for the Arboretum Tour
  
  
• Tours of the CNR building and laboratories – the Thomas L. and E. Teita Reveley Geospatial Education and Research Complex, University of Idaho Stillinger Herbarium, Idaho Stable Isotopes Laboratory, Laboratory of Ecological and Conservation Genetics, fish labs, and other points of interest. Sign up for the CNR Building & Labs Tour

• Tour campus via Vandal Trolly. Sign up for the Vandal Trolly Campus Tour

5:00 p.m. | Celebration tree planting ceremony in Shattuck Arboretum

5:45 p.m. | Celebration party and BBQ dinner
Music & Entertainment by Emeritus Professor/Interim Dean Leonard Johnson and Band
"Under the Tent" on the "Mall" west of the CNR Building (Lawn Between Ag Science and CNR)

Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009

Optional activity: Join the CNR Student Affairs Council and other student leaders for a service learning project with the Nez Perce Tribe in Lapwai.
Led by Aaron Miles (For. Res. ’96). Transportation will be provided. More information coming soon.