Managing fine hardwoods after a half century of research: Proceedings of the Seventh Walnut Council Research Symposium

Abstract

This report presents information from the Seventh Walnut Council Research Symposium, held August 1-3, 2011. This report includes 14 papers and abstracts relating to economics and utilization, pest management, nursery production, plantation establishment, tree improvement, stand management, agroforestry, and nut production of black walnut, related Juglans species, and other high value hardwoods.

Titles contained within Managing fine hardwoods after a half century of research: Proceedings of the Seventh Walnut Council Research Symposium

• Changes in walnut and other hardwood markets: 1990-2010
• Sawmilling practices for hardwoods
• Biorefinery opportunities for the forest products industries
• Inhibition of Ophiognomonia clavigignenti-juglandacearum by Juglans species bark extracts
• Advances in fertilization for hardwood regeneration
• Direct seeding of fine hardwood tree species
• Designing and establishing a fine hardwood timber plantation
• Herbicide practices in hardwood plantings
• Breeding black walnuts in the age of genomics
• Using biologically-fixed nitrogen by native plants to enhance growth of hardwood saplings
• Herbicides to control sprouting on high stumps of walnut and green ash
• Integrating walnut and other hardwoods into agroforestry practices
• Nut production in response to thinning and fertilization for planted walnut
• Influence of foliar fertilization on walnut foliar zinc levels and nut production in black walnut

Keywords

Juglans, plantation culture, nut production

Citation

Van Sambeek, J.W.; Jackson, Elizabeth A.; Coggeshall, Mark V.; Thomas, Andrew L.; Michler, Charles H. eds. 2013. Managing fine hardwoods after a half century of research: Proceedings of the Seventh Walnut Council Research Symposium; 2011 August 1-3; Madison, WI. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-115. Newtown Square, PA; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 106 p. [CD-ROM].