NAUFRP GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Marriott Downtown at City Creek
Room: Salon B-C
Salt Lake City, Utah
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
8:00-8:30
Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:00
Welcome and Introductions
SAF Welcome
Steve Bullard, Moderator
Matt Menashes, CEO
NAUFRP Business
Approval 2013 General Assembly Minutes
Treasurer’s Report
NAUFRP Overview & Recent Accomplishments
NAUFRP New Efforts
Washington Report
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-12:00
NAUFRP Program
Steve Bullard
David Newman
Jim Allen
Steve Bullard
Randy Nuckolls
- Luis Tupas, Deputy Director for Bioenergy, Climate and Environment
USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture: Update on NIFA Priorities,
specific updates on AFRI, RREA and McStennis (20 minutes)
- Matt Menashes, CEO, SAF: Update on forest technician member certification and
membership categories (20 minutes)
- Tom Martin, President and CEO American Forest Foundation: ‘How can
NAUFRP work with and interact with AFF most effectively? MOA status? (20 minutes)
- Summary of National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO) Research Survey,
Jim Johnson (15 minutes)
- Report on APLU Natural Resources Road Map Tim White (15 minutes)
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch (on your own)
1:30-3:15 (NAUFRP Program Continues)
- Berkeley Education Summit (Summary), Keith Gilles, Rick Standiford
(25-30 minutes)
- Best Practices For Enhancing Communications in Natural Resource
Curricula (summary of last year’s breakout sessions), Terry Sharik (25-30 minutes)
- Forest History Society, Steve Anderson (10 minutes)
- Best Practices for Getting Engaged on Campus with Government Affairs Offices.
Why and How to Become involved with NAUFRP (Randy Nuckolls) (20-25 minutes)
NAUFRP Officer Elections
2014 Family Forest Education Award
2014 Resolutions
Bob Wagner, Keith Argow
Steve Bullard, Jim Allen
3:15 – Adjourn
3:30-5:00 -NAUFRP Regional Meetings:
Room: Salon G - Southern NAUFRP
Room: Salon H -Western NAUFRP
Room: Salon I – Northeast and North Central NAUFRP
Note: Tuesday, October 7th: 6:00-7:30 NAUFRP President’s Reception
Room: Deer Valley Salon
(NAUFRP Members, Spouses, Friends invited)
Please bring items from member institutions (mugs, t-shirts, pens,…) for raffle!
Note: 2015 SAF Convention, Baton Rouge, LA first week in November