owner/operator Ouachita Getaways LLC Broken Bow, Oklahoma, United States
Managing unmanaged forest and developing unmanaged land for eco-tourism, while focusing on creating a tree breeding program looking at disease resistance and food production, particularly induced polyploidization for parthenocarpic fruit production.
Learning Objectives:
Participant will seek to attempt to create new breeding lines of various trees and document the best practices for polyploidization, while focusing on diverse genetic parentage to ensure a lack of a genetic bottleneck.
Participant will focus on the historical silvicultural practices of various tree species, to determine from which wild populations known cultivars derived.
