Georgia's "Practicing Foresters 

 Institute/' started by Professor 

 Archie Patterson primarily for 

 private consulting foresters, is an 

 example. It was offered nine times 

 through 1984. The Institute has 

 been cosponsored by the 

 Association of Consulting 

 Foresters and the university's 

 Council on Continuing Education 

 for Foresters (Association of 

 Consulting Foresters 1984). 



In harvesting, Clemson's 

 Department of Forestry and the 

 American Pulpwood Association 

 cosponsored an annual pulpwood 

 production short course for this 

 industry sector for 18 years (1960 

 through 1977) (McGregor et al., 

 personal communication). 



Duke has had an intensive study 

 program since 1977. The School of 

 Forestry and Environmental 

 Studies offers week-long courses 

 on specific subjects to a 

 combination of practicing 

 professionals and graduate students 

 in residence. Practicing 

 professionals can use these 

 programs (under Duke's "Senior 

 Professional Program" framework) 

 in combination with a semester in 

 residence to qualify for a master's 

 degree. Instructors include resident 

 faculty and practicing professionals 

 who are authorities on the given 

 subject. Some of these outsiders 

 have adjunct faculty status (Gay, 

 personal communication). 



Special State-of-the-Art Symposia — 

 These are convened when 

 scientists in a given field feel an 

 overall summary of research 

 results and research in progress 

 would benefit themselves and 

 practitioners. These symposia may 

 be specially called or held at an 

 established, recurring annual 

 forum. 



The University of Florida's School 

 of Forest Resources and 

 Conservation has put on both 

 types. In the early 1970's, in 

 collaboration with the forest 

 industry's Southern Forest Disease 

 and Insect Research Council, the 

 USDA Forest Service, and North 

 Carolina State, Florida hosted a 

 Southwide, invitation-only 

 symposium on fusiform rust. The 

 purpose was to review all relevant 

 research and experience on the 

 subject with forest managers, as a 

 basis for coming to a consensus, if 

 possible, on best control strategies. 

 Approximately 10 years later, the 

 school cohosted a similar 

 symposium with published 

 proceedings on the theme of the 

 managed slash pine ecosystem 

 (Stone 1983). And in 1982, it 

 utilized the annual spring 

 symposium of the Florida Society 

 of American Foresters to review 

 all relative findings to that date of 

 its joint (with the USDA Forest 

 Service) Intensive Management 

 Practices Assessment Center 

 program (Coleman et al. n.d.). 



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