Shaping the Future of Plantation Forestry
Celebrating Over 50 Years of Productivity
We create innovative solutions to enhance forest productivity and value through sustainable management of site resources
FPC Membership
Our members support the research, training, and technology transfer mission of the Forest Productivity Cooperative through annual contributions to the program.
Technology Transfer
Our research is results-driven. It is imperative that the results of our research are made available to our members in a timely manner. Web accessible data summaries for field trials are available as soon as we receive the corrected field trial data and/or analyses are completed in the lab. Results from field trials, graduate student projects, and grant research are summarized annually. Technical reports are distributed to members prior to publication of peer- reviewed journal articles. Downloadable copies of all reports are available on our members-only website. Scientific publications are available with membership.
Meetings
Annual Meetings
The FPC hosts an annual meeting each year, usually in Raleigh, NC, to review research results and conduct our business meeting.
Contact Meetings
Much of our information is provided to members through field visits with individual members and working group contact meetings.
Workshops
The FPC hosts various forest productivity workshop series that provide an intensive review of plantation management and the relationships between silviculture and forest productivity. This includes the ecophysiology of forest production, and how that knowledge can be used to develop integrated silvicultural systems approach to managing resource availability and stand growth. Growth response to treatments including species and genotype selection, site preparation, weed control, fertilization, thinning are discussed. Workshops typically include lectures, field trips, readings, and much discussion.