Coast redwood science symposium—2016: Past successes and future direction

Abstract

There is no more iconic tree or more closely watched forest ecosystem than coast redwood. With its limited range and high value, the coast redwood forest is a microcosm of many of the emerging science and management issues facing today’s forested landscapes. As new information is collected and new management approaches and treatments tried, it is critical that policies and strategies guiding use and management within the redwood region be reviewed and updated based on objective scientific information. With changes in California’s demographic makeup, land ownership, and the regional economy, great interest has developed in areas such as forest sustainability and restoration, watershed assessment, fish and wildlife habitat conditions, and new silvicultural strategies. This symposium is part of a continuing effort to promote the development and communication of scientific findings to inform management and policy decisions. The symposium includes plenary speakers, concurrent sessions, a poster session, reception, and field trip opportunities to view and explore the North Coast.

Titles contained within Coast redwood science symposium—2016: Past successes and future direction

• Changes in the redwood region from 1996-2016
• Understanding Sequoia sempervirens
• The enigmatic fire regime of coast redwood forests and why it matters
• Conservation strategies – where we were and where we’re going
• Redwoods sawed and saved: What happened to the redwoods of Humboldt County?
• Redwoods—responsibilities for a long-lived species/resource
• Working forests, forest health and management challenges in the redwood region
• Expanding the network of crossdated tree-ring chronologies for Sequoia sempervirens
• Ninety-two years of tree growth and death in a second-growth redwood forest
• Predicting redwood productivity using biophysical data, spatial statistics and site quality indices
• On the variation of inventory estimates for redwood stands
• Sustainability analysis using FORSEE and continuous forest inventory information to compare volume estimation methods for the Valencia coast redwood tract in Santa Cruz County, California
• Forest restoration at Redwood National Park: exploring prescribed fire alternatives to second-growth management: a case study
• Influence of compounding fires on coast redwood regeneration and stand structure
• Coast redwood seedling regeneration following fire in a southern coast redwood forest
• Watershed-scale evaluation of Humboldt Redwood Company’s Habitat Conservation Plan timber harvest best management practices, Railroad Gulch, Elk River, California
• Fast response to fast-forwarding nature: instream large wood habitat restoration
• Hydrologic influences on stream temperatures for Little Creek and Scotts Creek, Santa Cruz County, California
• Post-landslide recovery patterns in a coast redwood forest
• Development of preventative streamside landslide buffers on managed timberlands
• Development and implications of a sediment budget for the upper Elk River watershed, Humboldt County
• Using Caspar Creek flow records to test peak flow estimation methods applicable to crossing design
• Shrinking streamflows in the Redwood Region
• Evaluating the ecological trade-offs of riparian thinning for headwater stream ecosystems in second-growth redwood forests
• Effects of logging road removal on suspended sediment loads and turbidity
• Long-term streamflow trends on California’s north coast
• Adaptation to climate change? Moving coast redwood seedlings northward and inland
• Comparing growth and form of coast redwood selfs and outcrosses
• Variation in genetic structure and gene flow across the range of Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia)
• A comparison of stand structure and composition following selective-harvest at Byrne-Milliron Forest
• Low thinning and crown thinning of two severities as restoration tools at Redwood National Park
• Long term results of early density management of a third growth redwood stand
• Growth of coast redwood and Douglas-fir following thinning in second-growth forests at Redwood National Park and Headwaters Forest Reserve
• Ecosystem responses to variable-density thinning for forest restoration in Mill Creek
• Physiology and growth of redwood and Douglas-fir planted after variable density retention outside redwood’s range
• The response of swamp harebell (Campanula californica) to timber harvest: a case study
• Two California lineages of Oxalis oregana: genetic evidence for a Pleistocene separation into northern and southern glacial refugia
• Western sword fern avoids the extreme drought of 2012-2014
• Humboldt marten denning ecology in a managed redwood-dominated forest landscape
• Stream amphibians as metrics of ecosystem stress: a case study from California’s redwoods revisited
• Remote camera monitoring and a mark – recapture study of the wandering salamander in a redwood forest canopy
• Investigating the distributional limits of the coastal tailed frog (Ascaphus truei) near its southern range terminus
• Tree size, growth, and anatomical factors associated with bear damage in young coast redwood
• The political ecology of forest health in the redwood region
• Socioeconomics of the redwood region
• A GIS approach to identifying the distribution and structure of coast redwood across its range
• The listing of coast redwood as endangered under the IUCN red list: lessons for conservation
• Economic contribution of timber harvesting and manufacturing to north coast redwood region counties
• Cannabis (Cannabis sativa or C. indica) agriculture and the environment: a systematic, spatially-explicit survey and potential impacts
• Estimating the impact of cannabis production on rural land prices in Humboldt County, CA
• Family forest owners in the redwood region: management priorities and opportunities in a carbon market
• Plantations as a response to the Creighton Ridge Fire: a landscape experiment in Cazadero, California
• Why are coast redwood and giant sequoia not where they are not?
• Restoration management in redwood forests degraded by sudden oak death
• Redwood seedling responses to light patterns and intensities

Citation

Standiford, Richard B.; Valachovic, Yana, tech cords. 2017. Coast redwood science symposium—2016: Past successes and future direction. Proceedings of a workshop. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-258. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. 446 p.