Sustaining Southern Forests:
The Science of Forest Assessment

Program

 

Tuesday November 7
9:00-11:00	Colloquium on Research in support of Sustainable Forestry Peter Roussopolous, Director, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service Frederick W. Cubbage, Department Chair, Forestry, North Carolina State University online presentation James P. Shepard, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement
11:00-12:30	Lunch
12:30-2:30	Concurrent Workshops
Workshop I:  People and Forests Workshop II:  Monitoring Forest Changes
2:30-3:00	Break
3:00-5:00	Colloquium:  Sustainable Forest Management Elizabeth Estill, Regional Forester, Southern Region, USDA Forest Service Sam Hamilton, Regional Director, US Fish and Wildlife Service Chris Zinkhan, Forestland Group Stan Adams, North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Robert Emery, Weyerhauser
5:30-9:00	Conference Social
Wednesday November 8
9:00-11:00	Concurrent Workshops
Workshop III: Forest Uses Workshop IV: Terrestrial Ecosystems Workshop V: Forested Wetlands
11:00-12:30	Lunch
12:30-2:30	Concurrent Workshops
Workshop VI: Monitoring Forest Management Workshop VII: Aquatic Ecosystems
2:30-3:00	Break
3:00-5:00	Colloquia--  Public Policy and Sustainable Forestry Lark Hayes, Southern Environmental Law Center Bob Fledderman, Forest Resources Division, Westvaco Michael Goergen, Society of American Foresters Ann Bartuska, Director, Forest Management, USDA Forest Service
throughout	Posters

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Detailed Program

Workshop I: People and Forests

Assessing the Distributional Impacts of the Southern Forestry Sector

Karen Lee Abt

The Causes and Socioeconomic Implications of Land Use Change in the Southern Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee

Robin Gottfried, James Peters, Douglass Williams, Josiah Daniel, and Mark Tucker

Forecasting Potential Policy Actions for Sustainable Forestry in the United States

Steverson O. Moffat, Frederick W. Cubbage, Thomas P. Holmes, and Elizabethann O’Sullivan

Tax Policy and Sustainable Forestry in Georgia

David H. Newman, Warren A. Flick, and Coleman W. Dangerfield, Jr

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Workshop II: Monitoring Forest Changes

Measuring Forest Integrity At Multiple Spatial Scales: Evaluating Indicator Accuracy, Sensitivity, and Specificity in Regional Assessments

J. Christopher Haney, Carol R. Foss, Geetha M. Jayabose, and Cindy DeGrood

Multi-scale Assessment of Southeastern Forest Patterns Using Free Data

Kurt Riitters

Mapping Risk from Forest Insects and Diseases

Joseph W. Lewis

A New Method of Assessing Forest Change at the County Level in the Southeastern US

Frank Perchalski and Jonathan P. Evans

Effective Monitoring of Forest Change Using FIA Data

Ray Sheffield

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Workshop III:  Forest Uses

Changing Landowner Preferences, Forest Fragmentation, and Absenteeism: Results from Virginia

Greg Amacher, M. Christine Conway, and J. Sullivan

Land Use and Characteristics of Southern Forests, 2000-2020, Under Varying Assumptions on Population and Income Growth

Robert C. Abt, David N. Wear, Brian Murray, and Jeffrey P. Prestemon

Effects of Southern Timber Demand on Forest Characteristics

Jeffrey P. Prestemon, John M. Pye, Karen L. Abt, David T. Butry, and David N. Wear

Economic and Ecologic Impacts Associated With Wood Chip Production in North Carolina

Rex Schaberg, P.B. Aruna, Fred Cubbage, Dan Richter, George Hess et al.

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Workshop IV: Terrestrial Ecosystems

Population Viability as a Measure of Forest Sustainability

Linder, Eric T., Dave Buehler, Randy Dettmers, John Bartlett and Nathon Klaus

Contributions of Intensively Managed Forests to the Sustainability of Wildlife Communities in the South

T. Bently Wigley, William M. Baughman, Michael E. Dorcas, John A. Gerwin, et al.

Southern Pine Plant Species Diversity Along a Disturbrance Gradient

C.W. Hedman

Bird Communities in Pine Plantations on the Southern Cumberland Plateau

David Haskell

Changes in Abundance and Spatial Pattern of Forest Communities in the Southern Appalachians Between 1950 and 2030

Scott M. Pearson, Monica G. Turner, and Paul Bolstad

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Workshop V: Forested Wetlands

Sustainability of Wetland Forest Management

James P. Shepard

Restoration of Bottomland Hardwoods in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley

John Stanturf and Emile S. Gardiner

Linking Spatial Scales For Wetlands Assessment  

Bill Ainslie

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Workshop VI:  Monitoring Forest Management

The Forest Monitoring Project: Collaborative Commitment to Forest Sustainability

Mark Matuszewski

AF&PA’s Sustainable Forestry Initiative SM Program--- Industry’s Assessment Tool

Rick Cantrell and Mardie Pfeiffer

Benchmarking Industry’s Special Sites Program

Frederick J. Weyerhaeuser and Will Price

The Growth/Removals Ratio as an Indicator of Sustainable Harvesting

Stephen P. Prisley and Andrew J. Malmquist

Forest Certification

Heather Melchior

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Workshop VII: Aquatic Ecosystems

Multi-Scale Operational Forestry Research:  Putting the Pieces into the Big Water Quality Picture

Jami Nettles and Stephen H. Schoenholtz

Streamside Management Zone Management: Influences on Productivity and Nutrient Dynamics 

Colson, C., B. G. Lockaby, R. Rummer, J. Feminella, and R. G. Clawson

Evaluating Timber Opportunity Costs of Various Riparian Conservation Practices

John M. Pye, Harbin Li and William D. Smith

Using Best Management Practice Monitoring as a Measure of Forest Resource Sustainability

Jeffery L. Vowell

Effects of Disturbance on Water Quantity and Quality in the Southern Appalachians

James M. Vose

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Posters

Minority and Limited Resource Landowners and Forests in the South: Developing a Research Agenda

Schelhas, John and Robert Zabawa

 

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Sustaining
Southern
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a conference sponsored by the Southern Forest Resource Assessment