Chairman of the 2009 Conference organising committee, Stephen Walker.

Dr Ian Bevege, recipient of the 2009 Jolly Medal, the Institutes highest award.

Below photo’s courtesy of Jim Bowden

Ian Robertson, retired forester from Lismore, NSW (left) catches up with Vic Eddy, forester with Murbein Sawmilling, Mildura, Vic, and Paul Massey-Reed, manager, private native forestry, NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water.

Kayt Watts, chief executive, Australian Forestry Standard Ltd, welcomes Richard Shoobridge, Norske Skog Paper Mills (Aust) Ltd, Boyer, Tas, and conference speaker Professor John Innes, University of British Columbia, to the AFS dispay.

The Governor of Queensland Penelope Wensley AO gets some advice on eucalypt seedlings from IFA conference chairman Stephen Walker and IFA executive director Adrian O’Loughlin.

Session chairman Dr Gary Bacon, Adjunct Professor, Griffith University (second from left) with opening session keynote speakers Professor John Innes, University of British Columbia, Penny Baalman, managing director, Greenhouse Gas Offset Services, and Professor Roger Stone, research chair in climatology and water resources, University of Southern Queensland.

John Herbohn, reader in tropical forestry, University of Queensland, Ir. Medrilzam, head, environmental services and conservation, National Development Planning Agency, Jakarta, Indonesia, and Grahame Applegate, AusAID.

Tim Vercoe, 3rd Man Innovation, Cooroy, Qld, Chris Weston, senior lecturer, University of Melbourne, and Kaara Shaw, Private Forestry, Southern Queensland.

On the CSIRO stand .. Roger Nicoll, Canberra, and Jody Bruce, research, scientist, Hobart.

Canberra trio .. Marian Niederkokfler, manager, climate change policy, A3P, Moira Goddard, policy officer, Australian Forest Growers, and Natalie Louden, communications officer, A3P.

Hans Drielsma, managing director, Forestry Tasmania, and John Ball, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Coffs Harbour.

Lee Tunstall, Forests Tasmania, Mia Spain, Southern Cross University, Lismore, and Edwina Loxton, PhD student, Australian National University, Canberra.

Climate change panel members Roger Underwood, bushfire and forest management consultant, Western Australia, and Richard Stanton, chief executive, A3P.