Communicating the role of silviculture in managing the national forests: Proceedings of the National Silviculture Workshop

Abstract

Contains 32 articles on communicating the values and benefits of silviculture in managing the national forests. Specific topics addressed are how communications affect: policymakers, inventory and monitoring, resource management, research, education and demonstration, and partnerships.

Titles contained within Communicating the role of silviculture in managing the national forests: Proceedings of the National Silviculture Workshop

• Opening remarks: welcome to the Allegheny National Forest; but will we be here 10 years from now?
• Communicating silviculture: values and benefits for the new millennium
• Silviculture: what is it like, and where have we journeyed?
• Stewart's maxims: eight "do's" for successfully communicating silviculture to policymakers
• Is the northern spotted owl worth more than the orangutan?
• Carbon sequestration in forests as a national policy issue
• Plant morphological characteristics as a tool in monitoring response to silvicultural activities
• Monitoring the effects of partial cutting and gap size on microclimate and vegetation responses in northern hardwood forests in Wisconsin
• Communicating the role of science in managing giant sequoia groves
• Communicating the role of genetics in management
• Demonstrating vegetation dynamics using SIMPPLLE
• Preparing for the gypsy moth - design and analysis for stand management Dorr Run, Wayne National Forest
• Communicating old-growth forest management on the Allegheny National Forest
• Use of expert systems for integrated silvicultural planning
• Assessing Native American disturbances in mixed oak forests of the Allegheny Plateau
• Communicating the role of silviculture and Forest Service silviculture research in the interior West
• The value of long-term silvicultural research studies
• Defining the role of silvicultural research in the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station
• Two-age silviculture on the Monongahela National Forest - managers and scientists assess 17 years of communication
• Use of molecular genetic markers in forest management
• North American long-term soil productivity research program
• Communicating the story of silviculture on the Allegheny National Forest
• Bent Creek demonstration program
• Evaluating and communicating options for harvesting young-growth douglas-fir forests
• Seeing is believing
• An historical overview of forest service silvicultural activities in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Islands
• Communicating the value and benefits of silviculture through partnerships and collaborative stewardship
• Demonstrating appropriate silviculture for sustainable forestry in central Siberia: a Russian - American partnership
• The Blue Mountains Natural Resources Institute: partnerships that demonstrate the role of silviculture in forest management
• Monitoring the mighty duck timber sale: a national forest - conservation organization - research partnership
• The role of silviculture in the active management of riparian zone vegetation in the Oregon Coast Range: a partnership between researchers and managers
• Raccoon ecological management area: partnership between Forest Service research and Mead Corporation

Citation

Northeastern Forest Experiment Station 1997. Communicating the role of silviculture in managing the national forests: Proceedings of the National Silviculture Workshop. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-238. Radnor, PA: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 205p.