Proceedings, 17th Central Hardwood Forest Conference

Abstract

Includes 64 papers and 17 abstracts pertaining to research conducted on forest regeneration and propagation, forest products, ecology and forest dynamics, human dimensions and economics, forest biometrics and modeling, silviculture genetics, forest health and protection, and soil and mineral nutrition.

Titles contained within Proceedings, 17th Central Hardwood Forest Conference

• Thinning strategies to increase the regional availability of oak timber in the Mid-Appalachian Region
• Stump sprout dominance probabilities of five oak species in southern Indiana 20 years after clearcut harvesting
• An evaluation of three growth and yield simulators for even-aged hardwood forests of the mid-Appalachian region
• A technique for predicting clear-wood production in hardwood stems: A model for evaluating hardwood plantation development and management
• A 3-point derivation of dominant tree height equations
• Examining spring phenology of forest understory using digital photography
• Developing digital vegetation for central hardwood forest types: A case study from Leslie County, KY
• A three-dimensional optimal sawing system for small sawmills in central Appalachia
• Validation of an internal hardwood log defect prediction model
• Integrated least-cost lumber grade-mix solver
• A graphical automated detection system to locate hardwood log surface defects using high-resolution three-dimensional laser scan data
• Forest composition change in the eastern United States
• Composition, structure, and dynamics of the Illinois Ozark Hills Forest
• Efficacy of herbicide treatments for controlling residual sprouting of tree-of-heaven
• Maximizing carbon storage in the Appalachians: A method for considering the risk of disturbance events
• Status and potential of terrestrial carbon sequestration in West Virginia
• Are nitrate exports in stream water linked to nitrogen fluxes in decomposing foliar litter?
• The fate of nitrogen mineralized from leaf litter — Initial evidence from ¹⁵N-labeled litter
• Canopy gap characteristics of an old-growth and an adjacent second-growth beech-maple stand in north-central Ohio
• Composition and structure of riparian areas along a land-use gradient in an agricultural watershed of northeastern Ohio
• Landform and terrain shape indices are related to oak site index in the Missouri Ozarks
• Site characteristics of American chestnut, oak, and hickory witness trees on the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia
• Effects of natural gas development on forest ecosystems
• Spatial impact assessment of conifer stands in the Hoosier National Forest
• Analysis of historical vegetation patterns in the eastern portion of the Illinois Lesser Shawnee Hills
• Fate of the 2001 acorn crop at Clear Creek State Forest, Pennsylvania
• The effects of shelterwood harvesting on oak regeneration two years after harvest in southern Ohio
• Effects of midstory removal on underplanted black oak and white oak in the western Cumberland Plateau
• Early survival and growth of planted shortleaf pine seedlings as a function of initial size and overstory stocking
• Dynamics of planted cherrybark oak seedlings and yellow-poplar from seed following a regeneration clearcut
• The influence of cultural treatments of the long-term survival and growth of planted Quercus rubra
• One-year response of American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis L.) and black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) to granular fertilizer applications on a reclaimed surface mine in eastern Kentucky
• Effect of mechanical site preparation treatments on oak survival in a retired field afforestation effort -- first-year results
• Contrasting the effects of organic matter removal and soil compaction on root biomass of 9-year-old red oak, white oak, and shortleaf pine in a Missouri Ozark forest
• Adaptation and validation of the REGEN expert system for the Central Appalachians
• Effects of prolonged storage on survival and growth of outplanted bottomland oaks
• Reduced rates of controlled-release fertilizer lower potential nitrogen leaching from a Wisconsin bare-root tree nursery
• White oak seed source performance across multiple sites in Indiana through age 16
• Evaluating Best Management Practices for ephemeral channel protection following forest harvest in the Cumberland Plateau - preliminary findings
• Evaluation of erosion and sedimentation associated with tracked vehicle training
• Detecting the effects of forest harvesting on streamflow using hydrologic model change detection
• Harvesting productivity and disturbance estimates of three silvicultural prescriptions on the Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky
• Can our chestnut survive another invasion?
• Predicting the spatial distribution of Lonicera japonica, based on species occurrence data from two watersheds in Western Kentucky and Tennessee
• A review of impacts by invasive exotic plants on forest ecosystem services
• Preparing for hemlock woolly adelgid in Ohio: Communities associated with hemlock-dominated ravines of Ohio's unglaciated Allegheny Plateau
• The extent of selected nonnative invasive plants on southern forest lands
• Screening butternut and butternut hybrids for resistance to butternut canker
• Using silviculture to sustain upland oak forests under stress on the Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky
• Integrating studies in the Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project: Status and outlook
• Stand and individual tree growth of mature red oak after crop tree management in southern New England: 5-year results
• Thirty-year assessment of released, overtopped white oaks
• Midstory removal methods tested for timely release of newly established oak seedlings under oak shelterwoods
• A cost comparison of five midstory removal methods
• Roundwood markets and utilization in West Virginia and Ohio
• A synopsis of the wood-based energy and heating industries in the northeastern United States with consideration of potential impacts on future demand for roundwood
• Changes in U.S. hardwood lumber exports, 1990 to 2008
• Characteristics of West Virginia loggers during economically difficult times
• Entrepreneurial orientation of eastern white pine primary producers and secondary manufacturers: A regional phenomenon?
• Perceptions of firms within a cluster regarding the cluster's function and success: Amish furniture manufacturing in Ohio
• Understanding chain-of-custody certification in the Appalachian hardwood region: Primary manufacturers' practices and perceptions
• Small enterprises as important hardwood lumber consumers: Evidence from the current housing downturn
• Hardwood lumber distribution yards: Output, demands, and perceptions of their role
• Tales of a repatriated megaherbivore: Challenges and opportunities in the management of reintroduced elk in Appalachia
• A simplified hardwood log-sawing program for three-dimensional profile data
• Do trees fall downhill? Relationship between treefall direction and slope-aspect and wind in eight old-growth oak stands in the central hardwood forest
• Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis of mobile harvesting equipment and sediment delivery to streams during forest harvest operations on steep terrain: Experimental design
• Controlling Japanese barberry: Alternative methods and impact on tick populations
• Do mature forests present barriers to nonnative plant invasion? Lonicera Maackii invasion in deciduous forests of central Kentucky
• Maximum entropy modeling of invasive plants in the forests of Cumberland Plateau and Mountain Region
• Making history: Field testing of blight-resistant American chestnut (Castanea dentata) in the Southern Region
• Examining possible causes of mortality in white pine seedlings
• Preliminary evaluation of operational oak regeneration methods in central Missouri
• Shade tolerance of selected afforestation species on Loess Plateau, China
• Growing high quality hardwoods: Plantation trials of mixed hardwood species in Tennessee
• Effects of two prescribed fires on red maple regeneration across four levels of canopy cover
• Influence of alternative silvicultural treatments on spatial variability in light in central hardwood stands on the Cumberland Plateau
• Influencing woodland management using web-based technology
• The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks, Second Edition: A new book
• Assessing native small mammals' responses to an incipient invasion of beech bark disease through changes in seed production of American beech
• Optimizing wildlife habitat quality and oak regeneration in bottomland hardwoods using midstory control and partial harvests

Citation

Fei, Songlin; Lhotka, John M.; Stringer, Jeffrey W.; Gottschalk, Kurt W.; Miller, Gary W., eds. 2011. Proceedings, 17th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; 2010 April 5-7; Lexington, KY; Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-78. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 678 p. CD-ROM.