NORTH AMERICAN FOREST GENETICS SOCIETY CONFERENCE

"It seems timely that the discipline now be served by a single society that seeks to coordinate activities among regional groups and develop a strong and unified voice that advocates more effectively for the discipline." -- David Neale



We are pleased to announce that the inaugural meeting of the North American Forest Genetics Society (NAFGS) will be held on June 14-16, 2022 at the Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California.

The inaugural meeting of the NAFGS is designed to be both a strategic session to develop the mission, goals, and functional capacities of the NAFGS as well as invited and short contributed talks. In this way, the NAFGS will be different from the long-standing meetings in North America for the discipline of Forest Genetics (Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference, Western Forest Genetics Association, Canadian Forest Genetics Association).

The leadership of the NAFGS encourages your participation in this first meeting by bringing your ideas and priorities to the development of the first professional society in North America for the discipline of Forest Genetics. We have chosen the Asilomar Conference Grounds near San Francisco as the venue for this event as the beautiful setting and intimacy of the venue greatly facilitates collegial interactions and creativity.

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We sincerely hope to see you at Asilomar in June.

David Neale, President
Fikret Isik, Vice President
Nathalie Isabel, Secretary
Jill Wegrzyn, Treasurer

Asilomar Conference Grounds is located east of what was known as Moss Beach on the western tip of the Monterey Peninsula in Pacific Grove, California. Celebrated as Monterey Peninsula's "Refuge by the Sea" - Asilomar State Beach and Conference Grounds is a breathtakingly gorgeous 107 acres of ecologically diverse beachfront land.

Vaccination. We fully expect all meeting attendees will be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 as per US CDC guidelines. An individual is considered fully vaccinated 14 days after the final dose in their primary series. See the CDC website here for the definition of fully vaccinated as well as up-to-date recommendations. In addition to CDC-approved vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen), a number of vaccines have been authorized for use by the WHO; see the full list here. If you have not been vaccinated, we ask that you do not attend the NAFGS meeting this year.

Masking. We strongly recommend that attendees wear a mask in all indoor public spaces except when eating or drinking. We strongly recommend that attendees wear the most protective mask possible (e.g. N95 or KN95).

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