Proceedings of the Redwood Region Forest Science Symposium: What does the future hold?

Abstract

Policies and strategies that guide use and management of lands in the coastal ecoregion are dependent on objective scientific information. In recent years attention to this region has increased. Correspondingly, there has been much new information collected. Efforts such as the Caspar Creek Watershed Conference and the Scientific Basis for the Prediction of Cumulative Watershed Effects illustrate both the great interest and effort that is devoted to collecting and using scientific information to support resource and land management in this region. Each year the array of decisions that affects lands and natural resources in the redwood region carry more weight; evidence the recent interest in TMDLs, watershed assessment and fish and wildlife recovery efforts. How do we, therefore, promote the development and communication of scientific findings to inform management and policy decisions?

No single meeting or institution is capable of providing thorough coverage of current scientific findings and insights. It is the intent of the organizing committee to provide a sampling of current scientific work, to enable access to more detail and other sources of information, and to put these findings into a context where such information can be synthesized and interpreted for applications in land and resource management.

This symposium is intended to promote the dissemination of scientific evidence to managers, policymakers, other scientists and interested public, and, in turn, to inform policy decisions. Thus, the presentations will range from the discussion of recently gathered scientific knowledge to the integration of that knowledge into planning and management processes and tools. We support the many other efforts intended to achieve these and similar goals and acknowledge the need to coordinate all such efforts.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the Redwood Region Forest Science Symposium: What does the future hold?

• Development of a Mechanistically Based, Basin-Scale Stream Temperature Model: Applications to Cumulative Effects Modeling
• Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) Applied to Watershed Assessment on California's North Coast
• The Effects of Large Wood on Stream Channel Morphology on Three Low-Gradient Stream Reaches in the Coastal Redwood Region
• Applications of Redwood Genotyping by Using Microsatellite Markers
• Planting?-What and Where?
• Spatial Genetic Patterns in Four Old-Growth Populations of Coast Redwood
• Clonal Spread in Second Growth Stands of Coast Redwood, Sequoia sempervirens
• A Preliminary Study of Streamside Air Temperatures Within the Coast Redwood Zone 2001 to 2003
• Effects of Timber Harvest on Fog Drip and Streamflow, Caspar Creek Experimental Watersheds, Mendocino County, California
• Trends in streamflow and suspended sediment after logging, North Fork Caspar Creek
• Rates and Implications of Rainfall Interception in a Coastal Redwood Forest
• Use of Streambed Characteristics as Ecological Indicators of Long-Term Trends in Sediment Supply Associated With Forest Management on PALCO Lands
• Watershed Analysis Results for Mendocino Redwood Company Lands in Coastal Mendocino and Sonoma Counties
• Detecting the Upstream Extent of Fish in the Redwood Region of Northern California
• Using Site-Specific Habitat Information on Young to Late Successional Avifauna to Guide Use and Management of Coastal Redwood and Douglas-Fir Forest Lands
• Ecology and management of northern spotted owls on commercial timberlands in coastal northern California
• Structural Characteristics of an Old-Growth Coast Redwood Stand in Mendocino County, California
• The Conservation of Sensitive Plants on Private Redwood Timberlands in Northern California
• Rare Plants of the Redwood Forest and Forest Management Effects
• Environmental Control of Microbial N Transformations in Redwood Forests
• Redwood Trees, Fog Water Subsidies, and the Hydrology of Redwood Forests
• Status of Vegetation Classification in Redwood Ecosystems
• What Was the Role of Fire in Coast Redwood Forests?
• Fire History in Coast Redwood Stands in San Mateo County Parks and Jasper Ridge, Santa Cruz Mountains
• Progression and Behavior of the Canoe Fire in Coast Redwood
• Abundance and Habitat Associations of Dusky-Footed Woodrats in Managed Redwood and Douglas-fir Forests
• Individual legacy trees influence vertebrate wildlife diversity in commercial forests
• The relationship between the understory shrub component of coastal forests and the conservation of forest carnivores
• Fisher (Martes pennanti) Use of a Managed Forest in Coastal Northwest California
• Salmonid Communities in the South Fork of Caspar Creek, 1967 to 1969 and 1993 to 2003
• Amphibians as Indicators of Headwater Processes in Northern California Forests: What Are They Telling Us and Why Should We Listen?
• Modeling Coast Redwood Variable Retention Management Regimes
• Holter Ridge Thinning Study, Redwood National Park: Preliminary Results of a 25-Year Retrospective
• Managing Second-Growth Forests in the Redwood Region for Accelerated Development of Marbled Murrelet Nesting Habitat
• Restoring Complexity to Industrially Managed Timberlands: The Mill Creek Interim Management Recommendations and Early Restoration Thinning Treatments
• Precommercial Stocking Control of Coast Redwood at Caspar Creek, Jackson Demonstration State Forest
• The Whiskey Springs redwood commercial thinning study: a 29-year status report (1970 to 1999)
• Silvicultural Challenges for Coast Redwood Management
• Restoration of Old-Growth Redwood Structural Characteristics With Frequent Variable Silvicultural Entries
• Even-Aged Management and Landslide Inventory, Jackson Demonstration State Forest, Mendocino County, California
• Overview of the Ground and Its Movement in Part of Northwestern California
• Predicting Debris-Slide Locations in Northwestern California
• Erosion Rates Over Millennial and Decadal Timescales at Caspar Creek and Redwood Creek, Northern California
• Decision Support for Road Decommissioning and Restoration by Using Genetic Algorithms and Dynamic Programming
• Mapping Prehistoric, Historic, and Channel Sediment Distribution, South Fork Noyo River: A Tool For Understanding Sources, Storage, and Transport
• The significance of suspended organic sediments to turbidity, sediment flux, and fish-feeding behavior
• Forest Certification in the Redwood Region
• Implementation of Uneven-Age Forest Management Under the Santa Cruz County/California Forest Practice Rules
• The New Economies of the Redwood Region in the 21st Century
• Upland log volumes and conifer establishment patterns in two northern, upland old-growth redwood forests, a brief synopsis
• Tree Biomass Estimates on Forest Land in California's North Coast Region
• Using Scientific Information to Develop Management Strategies for Commercial Redwood Timberlands
• Sediment Yield From First-Order Streams in Managed Redwood Forests: Effects of Recent Harvests and Legacy Management Practices
• Statistical Analysis of Streambed Sediment Grain Size Distributions: Implications for Environmental Management and Regulatory Policy
• Simulation of Surface Erosion on a Logging Road in the Jackson Demonstration State Forest
• The Relationship Between Wildlife Damage Feeding Behavior and Stand Management in Coastal Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens)
• Disease Ecology of Phytophtora ramorum in Redwood Forests in the California Coast Ranges
• A Multiple Logistic Regression Model for Predicting the Development of Phytophthora ramorum symptoms in Tanoak (Lithocarpus densiflorus)
• Stand Dynamics of Coast Redwood/Tanoak Forests Following Tanoak Decline
• Poster Session
• Large woody debris and pool dynamics in the Caspar Creek Experimental Watershed, Northern California

Citation

Standiford, Richard B.; Giusti, Gregory A.; Valachovic, Yana; Zielinski, William J.; Furniss, Michael J., technical editors. 2007. Proceedings of the Redwood Region Forest Science Symposium: What does the future hold? Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-194. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 553 p