High Performance Trees for Conservation, Restoration, Mitigation, Wetlands, Urban and Habitat using the patented, non-GMO "Root Production Method®" achieving 90+% survival; up to 3x growth of bare root seedlings and early flowering, seed, nut and fruit production

1. Hardwoods with High Performance for Conservation, Restoration, Urban and Habitat

2. Root Production Method ® ( R P M ) Dryden NY ( Ithaca ) Ravenel SC ( Charleston ) Vancleave MS ( Biloxi ) Affiliates in Elsberry MO ( St. Louis ) and Loomis CA ( Sacramento ) nurseries upsizing RPM trees in TN

3. Root Production Method® RPM Bare root 210 days 2 years

4. Root Production Method® AN OVERNIGHT SENSATION ? PATENTED IN DECEMBER 2007 DEVELOPED OVER 20 YEARS IN MISSOURI TO RE-ESTABLISH OAK FORESTS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FLOOD PLAINS

5. Survival & Growth depends upon root structure. WHERE IS THE TAP ROOT ? Non-RPM trees may lack deep root structures

6. 4 year old RPM red oak root system 6 “ stump caliper Lateral roots provide stability, the tap root does NOT !

9. The RPM Process Stratification of Seeds

11. The RPM Process Germination Transplanted, as plant adds biomass Day 1 Day 45

13. Symbiotic Relationship with ecto -Mycorrhizae

14. Symbiotic Relationship with endo -Mycorrhizae

16. RPM after 75 days Ready for the Outdoors !

17. RPM after 210 day growing process with 2 gallon root mass

19. Oct - 08 Field Research Bare Root Grown ( 9cm dia ) RPM process ( 20cm dia ) 11 year old Black Oak, siblings from same seed tree grown in the same field and maintenance care ( sections from DBH of each tree )

20. 8 year RPM Pecan 8 year bare-root Pecan Confirming growth properties Seed from same tree Field Trials at the Center for Agroforestry, University of Missouri

21. Wetland and Floodplain Restoration

22. Wetland and Floodplain Restoration (3 years after restoration)

23. RPM grown grasses for stream and shoreline stabilization

24. Biological Corridor ( 1 year after planting )

25. Biological Corridors Planting (3 year old RPM trees)

26. Survival & Growth Missouri River Oak Bottomland Restoration 95% survival after 2 years of flooding After 6 years: 4” dbh 18 - 25 ft tall

27. Floodplain planting 8 th season 95% survival 50 / acre 5 – 6 in dbh 20 – 25 ft tall

28. White pines 5 th growing season Survival & Growth

29. 7 Year old white pine 7 Year old black cherry

30. Long-Leaf Pine: Germinated March 07

32. 2 year old Bur Oak Typically, bur oaks produce acorns in 20+ years. Early mast production

33. Black Walnuts: 2 years old at planting 3 years later: 4” cal., ~15’ tall, full canopy of mast

34. Walnuts after 3 rd growing season Earlier Nut Production

35. 5 year old corridor Accelerated growth

36. 7 year old floodplain planting Accelerated growth

37. WIND BREAK SW Missouri August 04: NRCS EQIP Program

38. WIND BREAK SW Missouri August 07 – 83 trees, 3 died, no water

41. Nuttal Oak 7 years 7-in. dbh 35 ft tall

42. 8 year old oak in floodplain 9+ in dia

45. Questions ? Comments ! Root Production Method®