Proceedings of the Seventh Southern Conference on Forest Tree Improvement, June 26-27, 1963, Gulfport, Mississippi

Abstract

Management of pine seed production areas Donald E. Cole 44 Management of seed orchards Paul J. Otterbach 50 Juvenile-mature tree relationships Charles D. Webb 55 Economic considerations of the genetic approach R. L. Marler 59 Literature cited (a consolidated list) 64 Registrants 71 Previous publications and reports sponsored by the committee on southern forest tree improvement 74 Papers are in the order of their presentation at the Conference. Titles and moderators of the five sessions were: How intensive will forestry practices become? J. W. Johnson; How much can genetics help the forest manager? B. J. Zobel; What do we know about inheritance patterns-how can we get improvement through genetics? C. H. Driver; Mass production of improved seed, R. E. Goddard; Value and speed of the genetics approach, J. P. van Buijtenen."Tree Improvement in Modern Forest Management" was the theme of the Conference, which was sponsored by the Committee on Southern Forest Tree Improvement. Officers of the Committee then were: Chairman,