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This course will address the wide range of issues you'll encounter when planning a timber sale in today's environment of government regulation and public scrutiny. You will learn what harvest planning involves and how to develop and implement a harvest plan that satisfies your clients, employers, or stakeholders. The instructors will present the science behind the Best Management Practices (BMPs) used in the South and will discuss the emerging BMP issues in the Southeast. You will learn how harvest planning benefits landowners, forestry consultants, and loggers, and why widespread adoption of harvest planning can be important to the long-term practice of forestry in the South.

Foresters with procurement, land-management, or consulting responsibilities; logging contractors; government regulatory personnel; and others who have an interest in, or responsibility for, harvesting operations. Throughout this course, you'll:

• Practice creating harvest plans.
• Discover where to acquire and how to use materials useful in harvest planning, such as aerial photographs, soils maps, and topographic maps.
• Understand how basic principles of forest hydrology, soils, and water quality can be used to guide land management.
• Learn how current and evolving regulatory programs relate to harvest planning.

The fee for this course is $445, which includes lunch, refreshment breaks, and instructional materials. There is a $50 discount for fees paid by check or credit card and postmarked by November 23, 2006. Preregistration must be accompanied by check, purchase order, or credit card number to guarantee a place in the course. Limited seating is available.

Dr. W. Dale Greene is a professor of forest operations in the Center for Forest Business at the University of Georgia Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. Dale, an expert on timber harvesting equipment and methods, has many years of experience teaching continuing education programs throughout the South and understands the challenges facing loggers and foresters.

Dr. C. Rhett Jackson is an associate professor of hydrology at the University of Georgia Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. Rhett specializes in the effects of land management on water resources and is an expert on the effectiveness of Silvicultural Best Management Practices.

Together, these instructors will give you practical information that you can take back to your organization and put to use immediately to improve your harvest-planning efforts.

• 11.0 Continuing Forestry Education (CFE) hours — Category 1
• 11.0 Continuing Logger Education (CLE) hours — Environment
• 13.0 Real Estate Appraiser hours have been approved; the Georgia Real Estate Commission accepts these hours.

Full Attendance Is Mandatory to Receive Credit.

If you are not satisfied with this course, we will refund your registration fee. Third Course Free! Attend two forestry courses in 2006 as a paid participant and get the third course (with equal or lower course fee) for free. Contact Nette Penn, at 706-542-6658 or Nette.Penn@georgiacenter.uga.edu, before you register for the third course. Fourth Person Free! Register three people from your organization and the fourth person is free. All registrants must be with the same program (same address and same budget), and the registration fees must be paid in advance by check or credit card.

This optional one-hour course focuses on case studies to illustrate the place of ethics in the practice of forestry. It meets the ethics requirement for registered foresters in Georgia.

This course is cosponsored by the University of Georgia Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center & Hotel, which is located on the beautiful, historic campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. As a unit of UGA's Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach, the Georgia Center brings the University's teaching, research, and service expertise to the people of Georgia and beyond! For more information, visit www.georgiacenter.uga.edu.

Special Needs:
If you require special services, facilities, or dietary considerations, contact your event coordinator, Nette Penn at 706-542-6658 or Nette.Penn@georgiacenter.uga.edu at least five business days before your event or prior to December 7, 2006.

Location and Lodging:
This course will be held in the Auditorium of the Georgia Forestry Commission Complex, 5645 Riggins Mill Road, Macon, Georgia. The Auditorium is located behind the Main Office. Directions will be included with your registration confirmation. Directions also can be found at the Georgia Forestry Commission Web site at www.gatrees.org.

Visit the Macon-Bibb County Convention & Visitors Bureau Web site for a list of hotels — www.maconga.org. Choose hotels in the I-75 area for convenient access to the Georgia Forestry Commission.

Program Cancellation Policies:
(1) Full refunds are available for cancellations made by 5:00 p.m. ET, December 5, 2006. No refunds will be issued thereafter; substitutions will be allowed. (2) If a program is cancelled for any reason, the Georgia Center will not be responsible for any charges related to travel. (3) If for unforeseen and unavoidable circumstances an instructor is unable to attend, the Georgia Center reserves the right to substitute a comparable instructor.