2024 SFPA/SLMA Spring Meeting

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Dale Bracken

SLMA faculty advisor

Update on Safety Culture Works program and the benefits of behavioral safety leadership.

Tim Dunton

Director of digital offerings and IT with Reliability Solutions

Updates and progress with the Saw Filer Apprenticeship Program.

Jeff Miller

President and executive director with the Treated Wood Council

Federal regulatory and congressional action updates related to treated wood.

Dan Seale

Warren S. Thompson professor of wood science and technology and James R. Moreton fellow in sustainable bioproducts with Mississippi State University’s Department of Sustainable Bioproducts

Preparing students for lumber and engineered wood research and outreach.

Pete Stewart

President and CEO with ResourceWise

Forest economics update that included the strength of Southern forests, housing demands driven by immigration, supply chain demands and transparency, and how decarbonization is impacting the demand for wood.

Fernanda Vale

International market consultant with SFPA and American Softwoods

American Softwoods’ Southern Pine promotion efforts – and success – in the Caribbean and Central and South America.

Tim Young

Professor in the University of Tennessee’s Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries and Center for Renewable Carbon and interim director of the school’s Data Science Institute for Machine Learning and AI (DSIMLA)

The emerging era of data science for the wood products industry and how that’s changing and helping operations.

Megan Zavertnik

Managing member with MZ Advising

Update on government affairs that included mass timber efforts on Capitol Hill and the U.S. Department of Defense incorporating more wood into their construction projects.