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Vehicle access to timberland is essential for forest management, resource protection, harvesting operations, and other purposes. Forest roads must be properly located and constructed to provide adequate access, to minimize costs and maintenance, and to guard against nonpoint sources of pollution, as well as to satisfy the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.

This course will teach you how to plan, design, locate, construct, stabilize, use, maintain, and close forest roads. Consideration will be given to permanent and temporary roads, skid trails, and landings. The important roles played by water quality and Best Management Practices (BMPs) will be explained in the classroom and at an outdoor demonstration site. Through straightforward classroom and field techniques, you will gain a better understanding of environmentally sound road construction principles. You will acquire hands-on experience in designing and laying out roads, skid trails, and landings that include drainage and stabilization systems.

This course will benefit natural resource professionals and others who use or are responsible for forest roads and their related access networks.

Each attendee will need to wear appropriate outdoor clothing for the fieldwork on the second day and will also need to bring a calculator, a scale or ruler, a pad of paper, and a pen.

The fee for this course is $445, which includes lunches, refresh-ment breaks, and instructional materials. There is a $50 discount for fees paid by check or credit card and postmarked by November 8, 2006. Preregistration must be accompanied by check, purchase order, or credit card number to guarantee a place in the course. Limited seating is available. Transfer Fee: The Georgia Center will charge a $50 processing fee for a second course transfer, if applicable.

The classroom portion of this course will be held at the Georgia Forestry Commission Complex Auditorium in Macon, Georgia. Field exercises will be at Brender-Hitchiti State Forest near Gray, Georgia.

Ben Jackson is a professor of forestry at the University of Georgia Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. Ben has more than 25 years of experience as an industrial forester, a forestry consultant, and a university educator, with forest roads being one of his specialties. He served on the Georgia Forestry Commission's BMPs Revision Committee and the Commission's Subcommittee on Road Construction. He also designed the Georgia Master Timber Harvester Program. Ben has expertise and experience in evaluating forestland for the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.

Lee Ogden is a research coordinator for forest soils and forest ecology at the University of Georgia Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. Lee has 17 years of experience in forest soils and nutrient cycling, land application of residues, reforestation of mined lands, and erosion prevention. He served on the Georgia Forestry Commission's BMPs Revision Committee and has been an instructor for the Georgia Master Timber Harvester Program and a teaching assistant for the "Introductory Soils and Hydrology" class at UGA.

• 11.0 Continuing Forestry Education (CFE) hours — Category 1
• 11.0 Continuing Logger Education (CLE) hours — Environment
• 11.0 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 November 22, 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, November 20, 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.