Proceedings of the 20th Central Hardwood Forest Conference

Abstract

Proceedings from the 2016 Central Hardwood Forest Conference in Columbia, MO. The published proceedings include 31 papers pertaining to research conducted on artificial and natural regeneration, biomass and carbon, forest dynamics, forest health, modeling and utilization, prescribed fire, soils and nutrients, and wind disturbance. A correction to Table 2, on page 270, was made on May 18, 2017.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the 20th Central Hardwood Forest Conference

• Anticipating cascading change in forests: Seeking a deeper understanding of the future
• Control of hay-scented and New York ferns with Oust Xp® herbicide: Revisiting rate and timing required in mixed oak and northern hardwood stands
• The impact of strip clearcutting on red oak seedling development
• Effect of reserve trees on regeneration in central Wisconsin oak sites
• Stump sprout dominance probabilities of five oak species in southern Indiana 25 years after clearcut harvesting
• Mass loss and nutrient concentrations of buried wood as a function of organic matter removal, soil compaction, and vegetation control in a regenerating oak-pine forest
• Foliar nutrient responses of oak saplings to nitrogen treatments on alkaline soils within the Missouri River Floodplain
• Ecological sites: A useful tool for land management
• Evaluation of sapling height and density after clearcutting and group selection in the Missouri Ozarks
• Midstory shelterwood to promote natural Quercus reproduction on the Mid-Cumberland Plateau, Alabama: Status four years after final harvest
• Early stump sprouting after clearcutting in a northern Missouri bottomland hardwood forest
• Disturbance, succession, and structural development of an upland hardwood forest on the Interior Low Plateau, Tennessee
• Structural complexity and developmental stage after an intermediate-scale wind disturbance on an upland Quercus stand
• Stormwise: Integrating arboriculture and silviculture to create storm-resilient roadside forests
• An evaluation of hardwood fuel models for planning prescribed fires in oak shelterwood stands
• Establishing northern red oak on a degraded upland site in northeastern Pennsylvania: Influence of seedling pedigree and quality
• Cultivar identification and genetic relatedness among 25 black walnut (Juglans nigra) clones based on microsatellite markers
• Investment activities in the U.S. secondary woodworking industry
• Crown class dynamics of oaks after commercial thinning in West Virginia: 30-year results
• Development, succession, and stand dynamics of upland oak forests in the Wisconsin Driftless Area: Implications for oak regeneration and management
• Forest Dynamics at the Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project viewed through stocking diagrams
• Mortality, early growth, and blight occurrence in hybrid, Chinese, and American chestnut seedlings in West Virginia
• Characteristics of sites and trees affected by rapid white oak mortality as reported by forestry professionals in Missouri
• Planning for and implementing an emerald ash borer-induced forest restoration program in municipal woodlands in Oakville, Ontario
• Guidelines for sampling aboveground biomass and carbon in mature central hardwood forests
• Simple taper: Taper equations for the field forester
• After 25 years, what does the Pennsylvania Regeneration Study tell us about oak/hickory forests under stress?
• Maximum crown area equation for open-grown bur oak
• SITEQUAL v2.0—a Fortran program to determine bottomland hardwood site quality
• Effects of long-term prescribed burning on timber value in hardwood forests of the Missouri Ozarks

Citation

Kabrick, John M.; Dey, Daniel C.; Knapp, Benjamin O.; Larsen, David R.; Shifley, Stephen R.; Stelzer, Henry E., eds. 2017. Proceedings of the 20th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; 2016 March 28-April 1; Columbia, MO. General Technical Report NRS-P-167. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 313 p.