Southern Forest Nursery Management Cooperative

• Dean Gjerstad is hired as the first official Director of what would later be named the Southern Forest Nursery Management Cooperative.
• David South is hired as a research associate and begins to work on nursery weed control.

• Bifenox herbicide is registered for use in pine seedbeds.
• The cooperative is formally named the "Auburn University Forestry Chemicals Cooperative" and is tasked with 2 projects:
  • Nursery Weed Control
  • Silvicultural Herbicides

• Nitrofen herbicide is registered in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
• Granular oxadiazon is registered for use in forest nurseries.

• Perfluidone is registered as a nutsedge herbicide for nurseries in Mississippi.
• Oxyfluorfen is registered as a herbicide in conifer seedbeds.
• Thiram is registered as a seed treatment in Alabama.
• The "Cooperative Note" series begins to facilitate technology transfer.

• Triadimefon (Bayleton) is registered for pines in AL, AR, GA, LA, NC and SC, serving as the standard for rust control for the next 30+ years.
• Due to the unique research needs between nursery research and silvicultural weed control, the Auburn University Forestry Chemicals Cooperative splits into two separate cooperatives:
  • Auburn University Nursery Management Cooperative
  • Auburn University Silvicultural Herbicides Cooperative

• Metalaxyl is registered for controlling damping off in nurseries.
• The "Nursery Note" series begins for technology transfer.
• The "Southern Forest Nursery Soil Testing Program" is created.
  • This program used one soil laboratory (A&L) and then Dr. Chuck Davey presribed fertility prescriptions based on soil test results.
  • Soil tests reports and letters were sent to the Nursery Cooperative to develop a database of soil fertility trends.

• David South takes the position of Director as Dean Gjerstad steps down.
• Sethoxydim is registered to control grasses in forest nurseries.

First to test fomesafen in southern pine seedbeds.

Hosted an International Symposium on Nursery Management.

First to identify Lygus as the cause of "bushy-topped" loblolly pine.

Lactofen registered for postemergence use in forest nurseries.

Coined the term "December dip".

First to recommend not using DCPA in forest nurseries (due to groundwater).

Supported fomesafen registration to control nutsedge in Alabama.

Supported fomesafen registration in Arkansas, North Carolina, and Texas.

Recommend forest nurseries use chloropicrin as an alternative to methyl bromide.

• First to observe crystals on roots of loblolly pine seedlings.
• First to warn against washing roots of loblolly pine seedlings.

• Clopyralid registered for use in forest nurseries.
• Hosted an International Symposium on Nursery by Silviculture Interactions.

• UN approved Methyl Bromide CUE for forest nurseries.
• Updated fomesafen labels for AL, AR, GA, MS, NC, and SC.

Proline registered for use in forest nurseries.