But Florida is far from the only 

 university to offer this type of 

 major technology transfer event. 

 Tennessee has held one on yellow- 

 poplar management (Schneider, 

 personal communication). North 

 Carolina State had its own loblolly 

 pine ecosystem symposium. 

 Louisiana State used its 1970 

 annual symposium to focus on 

 silviculture and management of 

 bottomland hardwoods 

 (Hansborough 1970). The 

 University of Arkansas at 

 Monticello hosted a special state- 

 of-the-art symposium on forestry 

 and water quality in 1985 

 (Blackmon, personal 

 communication). 



Specific Technology Transfer Short 

 Courses and Workshops — Training 

 courses on specific technology 

 were among the earliest continuing 

 education activities in the South. 

 For example, shortly after World 

 War II ended, there was a round of 

 short courses on the application of 

 aerial photogrammetry to the 

 mapping and inventory of forests 

 and forest land. The field had made 

 great progress as a result of 

 military applications. 



Each such development has 

 generated a spate of short courses. 

 In forestry, photogrammetry was 

 followed by continuous forest 

 inventory, prism cruising, use of 

 herbicides, regeneration technology 

 and systems, and, more recently, 

 use of microcomputers, investment 

 analysis. Federal income and 



estate tax applications, and 

 computerized geographic 

 information systems. 



In the harvesting and forest- 

 products fields, the timetable has 

 been about the same. Subject- 

 matter sequence (the order is not 

 exact) has been kiln drying, gluing, 

 finishing, sawmilling, wood 

 preserving methods, log and 

 lumber grading, statistical quality 

 control, safety, cost control, use of 

 microcomputers, and the 

 development of export markets. 



Technician-School Programs 



In terms of resident teaching loads, 

 many of today's technician-school 

 faculties are about where those of 

 Georgia, Louisiana State, and 

 North Carolina State were in the 

 1930's. These people simply have 

 no time for anything other than 

 counseling students and teaching 

 the regularly scheduled courses 

 (Moser. personal communication). 



Only 5 of the 14 southern programs 

 contacted listed continuing 

 education offerings. Two of these 

 (Abraham Baldwin Agricultural 

 College and Southeastern 

 Community College) offered 

 workshops for forest landowners 

 on such subjects as forest 

 regeneration, forest management, 

 timber cruising, timber harvesting, 

 and timber marketing (Brown, 

 personal communication). 



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