Proceedings, 10th Central Hardwood Forest Conference

Abstract

Two invited papers, 57 volunteer papers, and 22 volunteer poster summaries presented at the 10th Central Hardwood Forest Conference. Presentation topics included economics, forest amenities, harvesting, logging safety, utilization, physiology, genetics, ecology, regeneration, silviculture, protection, management, hydrology, soils, nutrient cycling, and hardwood markets of central hardwood forests.

Titles contained within Proceedings, 10th Central Hardwood Forest Conference

• Walking the talk
• Forest health assessment for eastern hardwood forests
• Characteristics and dynamics of an upland Missouri old-growth forest
• Structural and compositional differences between old-growth and mature second-growth forests in the Missouri Ozarks
• Development of a central hardwood stand following whole-tree clearcutting in Connecticut
• Impacts of electronic deer exclusion fencing and soils on plant species abundance, richness, and diversity following clearcutting in Pennsylvania
• Variability in oak forest herb layer communities
• Carbon and nitrogen pools in oak-hickory forests of varying productivity
• The distribution of nitrogen and phosphorus in forest floor layers of oak-hickory forests of varying productivity
• Plant and soil nutrients in young versus mature central Appalachian hardwood stands
• Nutrient budgets of two watersheds on the Fernow Experimental Forest
• The effects of doubling annual N and S deposition on foliage and soil chemistry and growth of Japanese larch (Larix leptolepis Sieb. and Zucc.) in north central West Virginia
• Tree survivorship in an oak-hickory forest in southeast Missouri, USA under a long-term regime of annual and periodic controlled burning
• Chemical release of pole-sized trees in a central hardwood clearcut
• Forest values and how to sustain them
• Changes in a Missouri Ozark oak-hickory forest during 40 years of uneven-aged management
• Forest floor CO₂ flux from two contrasting ecosystems in the Southern Appalachians
• Acid-base status of upper rooting zone soil in declining and non-declining sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh) stands in Pennsylvania
• Tree-ring chemistry response in black cherry to ammonium sulfate fertilization at two West Virginia sites
• Elemental concentrations in foliage of red maple, red oak, and white oak in relation to atmospheric deposition in Pennsylvania
• Landscape-level regeneration adequacy for native hardwood forests of Pennsylvania
• Landscape variation in species diversity and succession as related to topography, soils and human disturbance
• Canopy openings and white-tailed deer influence the understory vegetation in mixed oak woodlots
• History of deer population trends and forest cutting on the Allegheny National Forest
• Effects of two-age management and clearcutting on songbird density and reproductive success
• An analysis of phenotypic selection in natural stands of northern red oak (Quercus rubra L.)
• Pollination biology of northern red and black oak
• Age trends in genetic control of Juglans nigra L. height growth
• Effects of hayscented fern density and light on white ash seedling growth
• The influence of shade on northern red oak seedlings growth and carbon balance
• Characteristics of a long-term forest soil productivity research site in Missouri
• A summary of water yield experiments on hardwood forested watersheds in northeastern United States
• Seasonal isotope hydrology of Appalachian forest catchments
• Spatial characteristics of topography, energy exchange, and forest cover in a central Appalachian watershed
• Drought tolerance of sugar maple ecotypes
• Tree regeneration following group selection harvesting in southern Indiana
• Regeneration in defoliated and thinned hardwood stands of north-central West Virginia
• Two-year results of herbicide released, naturally-regenerated bottomland cherrybark and shumard oak seedlings
• Site preparation for red oak plantation establishment on old field sites in southern Indiana
• An eight-acre black walnut plantation: history and observations 1982 - 1994
• Development and quality of reproduction in two-age central Appalachian hardwoods - 10-year results
• Shelterwood treatments fail to establish oak reproduction on mesic forest sites in West Virginia - 10-year results
• Intensity of precommercial crop-tree release increases diameter and crown growth in upland hardwoods
• Individual tree- versus stand-level approaches to thinning: is it a choice of one or the other, or a combination of both?
• Forest health in West Virginia: past, present and future
• Spatial trends in relative stocking point to potential problems in forest health
• Dimilin effects on leaf-decomposing aquatic fungi on the Fernow Experimental Forest, West Virginia
• The effect of acorn insects on the establishment and vigor of northern red oak seedlings in north-central West Virginia
• Logging safety in forest management education
• Forest management practices and the occupational safety and health administration logging standard
• Hardwood silviculture and skyline yarding on steep slopes: economic and environmental impacts
• FOREX - an expert system for managing even-aged upland oak forests on steep terrain
• Effect of the hardwood resource on the sawmill industry in the central and Appalachian regions
• Variation in pin knot frequency in black walnut lumber cut from a small provenance/progeny test
• Autumn predation of northern red oak seed crops
• Planting depth effects and water potential effects on oak seedling emergence and acorn germination
• Use of plastic films for weed control during field establishment of micropropagated hardwoods
• Protection of tree seedlings from deer browsing
• Effects of tree shelters on planted red oaks after six growing seasons
• Red spruce/hardwood ecotones in the central Appalachians
• Nitrogen dynamics in oak forest soils along a historical deposition gradient
• Temporal variation in photosynthetically active radiation (par) in mesic southern Appalachian hardwood forests with and without Rhododendron understories
• Short term evaluation of harvesting systems for ecosystem management
• Herbaceous vegetation in thinned and defoliated forest stands in north central West Virginia
• Defoliation and mortality patterns in forests silviculturally managed for gypsy moth
• A generalized ingrowth model for the northeastern United States
• Black walnut response to subsoiling, irrigation, and vegetation management on a site with a shallow fragipan
• Distribution, dispersal and abundance of hayscented fern spores in mixed hardwood stands
• Identification of canopy strata in Allegheny hardwood stands
• A method for applying group selection in central Appalachian hardwoods
• Fifty-year response of a 135-yr-old white pine stand to partial thinning in Connecticut
• Forest stand development on 6-26 year-old clearcuts in southeastern Ohio
• Vegetation analysis, environmental relationships, and potential successional trends in the Missouri forest ecosystem project
• Timber marking guidelines to minimize chainsaw felling accidents
• Mating parameter estimates of black walnut based on natural and artificial populations
• Variation among northern red oak provenances in bark thickness:dbh ratios
• Preliminary guidelines for the use of tree shelters to regenerate northern red oak and other hardwood species on good to excellent growing sites
• The effect of site disturbance on nitrogen and phosphorus availability in Indiana oak-hickory forests
• Salamander abundance in small clearcuts
• Production and trade flows of Michigan forest products
• Ecosystems management research in hardwood forests dominated by deer

Citation

Gottschalk, Kurt W.; Fosbroke, Sandra L.C., eds. 1995. Proceedings, 10th Central Hardwood Forest Conference. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-197. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 577 p.