Working Party on Environmental Applications of Poplars and Willows
Highlights
The presentations and posters on the topic of Environmental Applications delivered at the 24th IPC Session in Dehradun, India are now available for download here (http://www.fao.org/forestry/80796/en/).
The next Technical Meeting will be held during the first two weeks of March 2014 in New Zealand. The meeting title is “Extension and Dissemination – sharing what we know and the practical benefits of research activity” and the field visits will focus on poplar and willow use in erosion control. Details will be available shortly. It was also decided to have a WP6 business meeting in July 2014 in Vancouver, British Columbia in conjunction with the International Poplar Symposium.
Officers of the Working Party for the period November 2012 to 2016 are as follows:
| Sharon Doty (USA) | Chair | sldoty@u.washington.edu |
| Jaconette Mirck (Canada) | Vice-Chair | jmirck@gmail.com |
| Andrej Pilipovic (Serbia) | Vice-Chair | andrejpilipovic@yahoo.com |
| Ioannis Dimitriou (Sweden) | Technical Secretary | Jannis.Dimitriou@vpe.slu.se |
The different roles of the post holders are set out below.
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