Foundational concepts in silviculture with emphasis on reforestation and early stand improvement - 2022 National Silviculture Workshop

Abstract

Beginning in 1973, the National Silviculture Workshop (NSW) purposely brought together USDA Forest Service scientists from Research and Development and forest managers from the National Forest System to meet face-to-face to build a science and management partnership in silviculture. Recently, scientists from universities and other partners have joined this annual gathering. The 2022 NSW theme is “Foundational Concepts in Silviculture: Emphasis on Reforestation and Early Stand Improvement.” In 2022, the workshop is scheduled to take place in Kellogg, Idaho and is being jointly hosted by the National Forest System (NFS) and Research and Development (R&D) and sponsored by the Forest Management, Rangeland Management and Vegetation Ecology (NFS) and Sustainable Forest Management Research (R&D) staff areas. In addition, regional hosts will be the Forest Service Northern Region and the Rocky Mountain Research Station. Unique to this workshop was the occurrence of COVID-19, which resulted in the postponement of the workshop scheduled for 2021 when the workshop participants could meet in person. The intent of the workshop is to provide face-to-face interactions among the attendees to build a community of scientists and managers in the field of silviculture to better manage our national forests. Critical to this effort are field tours where scientists and managers can see firsthand how treatments have been implemented and share different perspectives where everyone can be heard. Each paper in this proceedings follows a designed template that includes an overview, summary, silvicultural concepts, and management applications, or in some cases, highlighted management opportunities.

Titles contained within Foundational concepts in silviculture with emphasis on reforestation and early stand improvement - 2022 National Silviculture Workshop

• Reforestation on National Forest System lands: Laws, policies, and opportunities
• The national reforestation strategy and the REPLANT Act: Growing and nurturing resilient forests
• Nurseries have a critical role in meeting forest restoration goals
• The USDA Forest Service National Seed Laboratory: Supporting reforestation and restoration efforts on national forests
• RNGR: A national resource for forest seedling production and outplanting programs
• Driving seedling morpho-physiology towards drought tolerance with drought conditions in the nursery
• Testing the potential of biochar to improve bareroot nursery efficiencies
• Effects of biochar on drought tolerance of Pinus banksiana seedlings
• Postfire reforestation in northern Sierra Nevada forests: Testing silvicultural and genetic approaches in a changing climate
• A long-term research-practice partnership leads to successful reforestation in northern California
• Adaptive silviculture in an urban environment: Initial survival and design set-up
• Guidelines for assisted migration and seed movement in the eastern United States
• Developing an assisted migration plan for the Superior National Forest
• A proposed protocol for prioritizing national forest seedlots for reforestation and restoration given concerns of climate change
• REGEN MAPPER: A web-based tool for predicting postfire conifer regeneration and prioritizing reforestation efforts in the western United States
• Regeneration of ʻiliahi: Hemiparasitic relationships in Hawaiian tropical dry forests
• Evaluating the role of plant species as indicators of climate change, disclimax, and ecotones
• Forest opening influence on seedling establishment and growth
• Trends in stand improvement needs and treatments on National Forest System lands
• Effects of flooding on survival and performance of potential replacement species in black ash swamp hardwood forests
• Sprout-origin hardwood reproduction dominates after multiple prescribed fires on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama
• Smoke, goats, and oaks: Effects of goat browsing and prescribed fire on woodland structure and floristic composition in Ozark hardwoods
• Intensity, frequency, and seasonality of prescribed burning to control survival and growth of red maple
• Effects of logging-debris removal, vegetation control, and site quality on stand characteristics of coast Douglas-fir
• Seven-year response of planted northern red oak (Quercus rubra) seedlings to regeneration harvesting, burning, and herbicide treatments in western North Carolina
• Developing advance reproduction of intermediate light-tolerant species such as white oak: A focus on midstory removal
• Adapting Gingrich stocking guides for managing oak woodlands and savannas
• Early stand improvement for multiple ecosystem services using adaptive complexity thinning
• Effect of pruning in Sitka spruce-western hemlock forests in the Pacific Temperate Rainforest
• Regenerating and tending under the vision for resilience and function in the free selection system
• Crop tree release in western white pine plantations
• Transitioning from even-aged to multi-aged forest structure in second-growth ponderosa pine
• 500 years? Who has time for that? Accelerating forest succession with reforestation and the role of Port-Orford-cedar on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest
• Evaluating long-term ponderosa pine seedling growth across densities using Nelder plots and FVS in the Black Hills, South Dakota, USA
• History of stand improvement practices at the Fort Valley Experimental Forest
• Short- and long-term growth responses of northern Rocky Mountain conifers to varying thinning intensities

Citation

Jain, Theresa B.; Schuler, Thomas M. [comp.]. 2022. Foundational concepts in silviculture with emphasis on reforestation and early stand improvement - 2022 National Silviculture Workshop. Proc. RMRS-P-80. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. n.p.