Proceedings of the first biennial Northern Hardwood Conference 2021: bridging science and management for the future

Abstract

The first biennial Northern Hardwood Conference (NHC 2021) with the theme "Bridging Science and Management for the Future" took place virtually June 15–16, 2021. This inaugural meeting brought together scientists and managers working in the northern hardwood forests of eastern North America. Articles presented in this proceedings document the diverse subjects, cutting edge science, and state of the art practices exchanged among experts and across the subregions of the northern hardwood range. The topics include People and the Forestry Profession, Regeneration and Biotic Interference, Stand Dynamics, Silviculture, Forest Products and Economics, Forest Ecology and Ecosystem Impacts from Forest Management, Forest Health, and Climate Change. The proceedings include 52 extended abstracts, 7 papers, NHC Hosting Policy, and a list of articles (also presented at NHC 2021) published in a journal special issue.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the first biennial Northern Hardwood Conference 2021: bridging science and management for the future

• The Challenges Facing Northern Hardwood Research and Management
• Forest Management, the Menominee Tribe, Culture, and Traditional Knowledge
• Managing for Northern Hardwoods at the Landscape Scale: The Role of Family Forest Owner Preferences
• Northern Hardwoods through the Eyes of Practitioners: Case Studies on the Great Lakes Silviculture Library
• Science-Management Collaboration is Essential to Address Current and Future Forestry Challenges
• Preharvest Stand Regeneration Composition and Associated Driving Factors
• Early Vegetation Responses to Canopy and Soil Disturbances
• Tree Regeneration Response to Variable-Sized Group Selection Harvest Gaps in Northern Wisconsin
• Considerations for Creating Canopy Gaps in Northern Hardwood Forests
• Group Selection Opening Effects on Regeneration Decades after Harvest
• Can Postharvest Regeneration in Group Selection and Patch Cutting Predict Future Species Composition? 
• The Effects of Various Treatments on Yellow Birch Regeneration: Results from Multiple Midterm Experiments
• Alternative Silviculture Treatments and the Influence on White-tailed Deer Behavior
• Preliminary Tree Regeneration and Browsing Patterns Following Various Silvicultural Treatments in Northern Hardwood Forests
• Deer Browse, Pennsylvania Sedge, and Silviculture Strategies to Enhance Tree Regeneration
• Forest Vegetation Management: A Matrix of Options
• Long-Term Evolution of Composition and Structure After Repeated Group Selection: 80 Year Results
• Five-year Growth Response of a 41-year-old Yellow Birch Stand to Commercial Thinning
• Nonparametric Individual-Tree Growth Models for the Northern Forest
• Comparison of Structural and Compositional Attributes of Northern Hardwood Forests in Michigan and Minnesota
• Alternative Silviculture Systems in Northern Hardwoods Session: Roundtable Q and A
• From Soup to Nuts: A Single Tree Selection Harvest from Conception to Completion
• Managing for Quality Hardwoods and Multiple Age Classes
• Northern Hardwood Regeneration Every Forester Wants: A 33-Year Case Study
• Comparing Fall versus Winter Shelterwood Harvests
• Silvicultural Options for Rehabilitating High-graded Yellow Birch-conifer Stands
• Introducing the NH-SEED: A Holistic Experiment to Revisit Classical and Test Novel Silvicultural Systems in a Changing World
• An Assessment of Eastern Hemlock Crown Dynamics 10-years After Thinning on the Allegheny Plateau, Pennsylvania
• Choice of Silvicultural System Influences Internal Wood Characteristics of Sugar Maple
• The Northern Hardwood Resource: A Market Perspective
• Hardwood Markets in 2020 and Beyond
• Overview of Wisconsin’s Value-Added Wood Manufacturing Industry
• Timeless and Thoroughly Modern: Maple Syrup Production in the Twenty-first Century
• Good Silviculture will Increase Productivity and Value over Time: A 72-Year History in a Northern Hardwood Forest
• Future Stand Development and Economic Consequences of Single-Tree Selection
• Using Irregular Shelterwood Systems to Optimize Value Growth in Southern Ontario Maple Forests
• Internal Rate of Return of Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) in Wisconsin
• Maximizing Value of Timber Resources in Northern Hardwood Forests: Log Sorting in Wisconsin Timber Sales
• At Which Diameter Does Sugar Maple Reach Financial Maturity at the Northern Edge of its Range?
• Assessing Soil Compaction Following a Winter Harvest of Northern Hardwoods
• Midterm Response of Understory Plant Communities after Different Regeneration Treatments in Temperate Hardwood Forests of Quebec, Canada
• Emergent Properties of Deadwood in Canopy Openings: A Response of the Wood Inhabiting Fungal Community to Manipulation of Forest Structure
• Clearcuts Drive Dissimilar Small Mammal Assemblages in Northern Hardwood Forests
• Novel Applications of iDNA Tool for Measuring Small Mammal Community Biodiversity via Silphid Beetles
• Wild, Native Pollinators Forage in Forest Canopies: Evidence of Canopy Pollen Consumption in Digestive Tracts of Forest Bees
• Beech Bark Disease Tolerance: An Emerging Concept in American Beech Management
• Cold Hardiness Considerations for Restoration of Dutch Elm Disease-Tolerant American Elm
• Oak Wilt Management for Northern Forests
• Impacts of a Hickory Decline Event and Implications for Bitternut Hickory
• Exotic Earthworms Impact Forests: Increase Awareness and Integrate Impacts into Forest Management Decisions
• A Marked Reduction in the Growth Rate of Sugar Maple Following the Accumulation of Climatic Stress Events in Southern Quebec, Canada
• Impacts of Historic Disturbance on Drought Response of Aspen-dominated Forest
• Climate Adaptation Treatment Impacts Adaptability of Natural Regeneration in Red Pine-dominated Ecosystems
• Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
• Lessons Learned from Climate Adaptation Projects in Northern Hardwood Forests
• Lessons from the Land: A New Approach to Use Site-Level Information to Guide Climate Adaptation
• Genetic Considerations for Assisted Migration Efforts: Northern Hardwoods
• Tree Assisted Migration in a Browsed Landscape: Developing an Assessment of Susceptibility
• Quercus rubra Seedling Biomass Response Related to Mean Annual Temperature Conditions of Associated Provenance

Citation

Kern, Christel C.; Dickinson, Yvette L., eds. 2023. Proceedings of the first biennial Northern Hardwood Conference 2021: bridging science and management for the future. 2021 June 15-16; virtual conference. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-211. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 299 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-GTR-P-211.