Association and the Southern 

 Forest Products Association 

 recently took over this program to 

 operate it for the benefit of their 

 own members (McDermid and 

 Jackson, personal communication). 



Cooperation — There has been 

 extensive cooperation among the 

 universities and outside 

 organizations. 



For example, in 1940 Lloyd 

 Blackwell (then an industry 

 forester) organized the North 

 Louisiana Group of Foresters as a 

 local chapter of the Society of 

 American Foresters. He has served 

 as chairman ever since, including 

 the 30 years following World War 

 II, when he was the first director 

 of the School of Forestry at 

 Louisiana Technical University. 

 During this time the chapter 

 sponsored 15 professional updating 

 training sessions (Blackwell, 

 personal communication). 



At the University of Tennessee, an 

 extension forestry specialist is 

 chairman of the Conservation 

 Education Committee of the 

 Tennessee Forestry Association. 

 Through this, the university's 

 Department of Forestry, Fisheries 

 and Wildlife annually cosponsored 

 between three and six 1- to 5-day 

 workshops (Schneider, and Sharp 

 and Stumbo, personal 

 communications). And at the 

 University of Florida, since 1969 

 the School of Forest Resources 

 and Conservation has been 



responsible for the program of the 

 annual spring meeting of the 

 Florida Society of American 

 Foresters. This meeting is 

 dedicated each year to 

 technological updating and 

 professional improvement (Mace, 

 personal communication). 



Types of Programs — Offerings to 

 date appear to have been of three 

 types. Here are a few examples of 

 each. 



Regularly Recurring Events — One 

 subtype of this is the annual 1- to 

 2-day symposium, or forum, for 

 the forestry community at large or 

 for members of a specific 

 professional society or trade 

 association (see Florida example 

 above). 



Louisiana State University was the 

 first in the South with this type of 

 offering. It held its first annual 

 symposium in 1952 and has done 

 so every year since. Attendance in 

 recent years has averaged 200 to 

 250. Proceedings are published 

 (Burns and Crow, personal 

 communication). Auburn, 

 Clemson, and VPI & SU have 

 since followed suit. 



A second subtype is the highly 

 structured short course or institute 

 designed to serve a particular 

 sector on a continuing basis or 

 offering repeat instruction on 

 specific subjects. 



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