The goal of the Annual Meeting is to provide members with a comprehensive overview of the entire FPC program, including all four working groups, the core program in remote sensing, modeling and ecophysiology research, and the grant funded research that supplements the FPC supported work. We will review the highlights of our work over the last year. We have organized the Annual Meeting in this way to allow everyone to see the entire program at a single meeting. We have organized the meeting sessions so that the results from the pine working groups are presented in sequential sessions and the eucalyptus working groups in a later sequential session. Thus, if you are only interested in pine or only interested in eucalyptus, you may choose to attend on only those sections. If you are interested in both pine and eucalyptus, you can attend the entire meeting. We hope that this format will be of value to all members. Please feel free to forward this to anyone in your organization that you think might benefit from attending the meeting.

We are also organizing an optional field trip to take place after the annual meeting. It will start on Thursday October 16 and travel south, ending in Jacksonville Florida on Saturday October 18. On the way we will make stops to see and discuss genetics and silviculture of loblolly pine, longleaf pine, slash pine and eucalyptus on well drained and poorly drained soils. We will also see nursery operations, harvesting and site preparation. NOTE, IF YOU ARE MAKING AIRLINE RESERVATIONS AND PLAN TO ATTEND THE OPTIONAL FIELD TRIP, PLEASE PLAN ON ARRIVING IN ATLANTA, GA AND DEPARTING FROM JACKSONVILLE, FL. PLEASE SCHEDULE YOUR DEPARTURE FROM JACKSONVILLE AFTER 5:00 PM ON SATURDAY OCTOBER 18.

The meeting will be held at the Atlanta Convention Center in downtown Atlanta. We have a block of rooms reserved at the Westin Peachtree Hotel at $189/night. Please note: when making a reservation, your card will have a hold put on it for 1-night stay + taxes ($219.24).