8th Biennial Short Rotation Woody Crops Operations Working Group
Short Rotation Woody Crops in a Renewable Energy Future: Challenges and Opportunities

• Short Rotation Woody Crops—Operations Working Group

Detailed program to be posted soon!

Sunday-Tuesday, October 17-19, 2010

• Optional Field Tours on Wednesday & Thursday, October 20 & 21

Short rotation woody crops (SRWC) are being developed as a sustainable supply of woody biomass for the production of bioenergy, biofuels and bioproducts as well as for traditional solid wood and fiber products. Interest in SRWC has developed in the past because of multiple environmental and rural development benefits associated with their production and use, and most recently because of increasing concerns about dependence on and impacts associated with the consumption of fossil fuels.

As a result of increasing interest in SRWC the amount of related activity is expanding rapidly. The 8th Biennial Short Rotation Woody Crops Operations Working Group conference is an excellent forum to learn about the latest developments in the science, production, harvesting, use and policies related to SRWC. The conference will also explore challenges and opportunities of successful commercialization of SRWC as a source of fiber or as an energy feedstock material. Please join us in Syracuse, NY from October 17 — 19, 2010 to learn more about SRWC and their role in the growing renewable energy economy and traditional forest industries.

A field trip included in the conference will highlight a demonstration of the Case New Holland single pass cut and chip harvesting system and a stop at a large scale alternative cover project using shrub willows. Post-conference tours will include stops at a pellet manufacturing facility, a wood-fired combined heat and power facility and hybrid poplar and willow plantations in New York State and Ontario, Canada.

The conference will be held adjacent to the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry campus in Syracuse, NY at the Syracuse University Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center. Please explore the web pages at this site for further details.

This conference and field trips will be submitted for review for CFE's.

Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center
801 University Ave · Syracuse, NY 13210

• Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel website

Past Short Rotation Woody Crops Conferences

• September 23-25, 1996; Paducah KY
• August 25-27, 1998; Vancouver, WA
• October 25-27, 2000; Syracuse, NY
• September 14-17, 2002; Alexandria, MN
• November 7-10, 2004; Charleston, SC
• September 26-28, 2006; Pasco, WA
• August 18-21, 2008; St. Paul, MN