12th Central Hardwood Forest Conference

Abstract

There were 32 oral presentations, 11 abstracts, and 22 poster presentations presented at the 12th Central Hardwood Forest Conference. Presentation topics included wildlife management, nutrient dynamics, stand structure, reforestation/reclamation, timber harvesting, modeling and inventory, silviculture, disturbance effects, and genetics/tree improvement.

Titles contained within 12th Central Hardwood Forest Conference

• Changes in National Forest Timber sales in the Central Hardwood Region
• Oak planting success varies among ecoregions in the Central Hardwood Region
• Effects of frost on hardwood regeneration in Northern Wisconsin
• Red maple dynamics in Appalachian Hardwood stands in West Virginia
• Effects of harvesting on soil nitrogen (N) dynamics in a N-saturated hardwood forest
• N dynamics across a chronosequence of Upland Oak-Hickory forests
• Soil nutrient microbial response to prescribed fire in an oak-pine ecosystem in Eastern Kentucky
• Comparison of ecological characteristics of three remnant old-growth woodlots in Belmont County, Ohio
• Characterization of coarse woody debris across a 100 year chronosequence of upland oak-hickory forests
• Renewing a forest ecosystem irrigated with treated wastewater
• Native high value tree reclamation on surface mined spoils in Eastern Kentucky
• Growth of white and red oak seedlings and seed on mined ungraded cast overburden
• Long-term effects of wastewater irrigation on forested ecosystems at Pennsylvania State Game Lands 176
• Survivorship and growth of natural northern red oak (Quercus Rubra L.) seedlings in response to selected treatments on an extremely acidic forest soil
• Japanese and giant knotweed seed reproductive ecology
• Soil disturbance and productivity from wide-tired skidder trails in Minnesota aspen harvests
• Impacts of harvest intensity and soil disturbance on early tree growth and earthworm populations in a Missouri Ozark Forest
• Contrasting timber harvesting operations illustrate the value of BMPS
• Harvesting strategies for increasing the availability and quality of hardwood fiber
• Using dynamic programming to explore hardwood silvicultural regimes
• Use of GPS and GIS in hardwood forest inventory
• Use Java and the internet to manage data and predict the future of forest stands
• Estimating previous diameter for ingrowth trees on remeasured horizontal point samples
• Neural networks VS
• Autumn roosting habitat of male Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) in a managed forest setting in Kentucky
• Foraging behavior and habitat use of red bats in mixed mesophytic forests of the Cumberland Plateau, Kentucky
• White-tailed deer impact on forest regeneration: Modeling landscape-level deer activity patterns
• Development of oak regeneration nine years after shelterwood cutting and clearcutting on the Coastal Plain of West Tennessee
• Releasing sheltered northern red oak during the early stem exclusion stage
• Underplanted northern red oak 17 years after thinning and understory control and 8 years following overstory removal
• Influence of cutting methods on 12-year old hardwood regeneration in Connecticut
• Methods to improve establishment and growth of bottomland hardwood artificial regeneration
• Thinning effects on basal area growth of red maple (Acer Rubrum L.)
• Residual Stand Quality Following Implementation of Uneven-Aged Silviculture in Even-Aged Oak-Hickory Forests in the Boston Mountains of Arkansas
• Predicting sapling growth and recruitment in different size canopy gaps
• Individual tree five-year basil area and crown diameter growth in Applachian hardwood stands as influenced by thinning and gypsy moth defoliation
• Individual tree mortality prediction functions from Gypsy moth defoliation as well as tree, stand, and site variables
• Characteristics of the chestnut blight fungus isolated from scarlet oak in Pennsylvania
• The Effect of Soil Manganese on Japanese Larch (Larix Leptolepis Sieb. and Zucc.) Seedlings in the Greenhouse
• Northern red oak growth response to climate and industrial air pollution in Western Pennsylvania
• Survival and growth of a Quercus Rubra regeneration cohort during five years following masting
• Characteristics of northern red oad seedlings grown by family in a Tennessee nursery
• Field performance o in vitro propagated white ash microplants
• Soil sampling on surface mined spoils: Systematic vs
• Quaking aspen energence and initial survival under different relative humidity, moisture, and seed placement treatments
• Strategies for improving establishment and productivity of hardwoods planted on marginal agricultural lands in southern Illinois
• Modeling landscape in the Missouri Ozarks in response to alternative management practices
• A forestland allocation model for urbanizing landscapes
• Managing forests for gypsy moth (Lymanria dispar L.) using silviculture: Testing the effectiveness of silvicultural treatments in reducing defoliation and mortality
• A stand density management diagram for Norway spruce plantations in central New York
• Forcing environment affects epicormic sprout production from branch segments for vegatative propagation of adult hardwoods
• Long-term changes in tree composition in a mesic old-growth upland forest in southern Illinois
• Assessment of residual stand damage and tree decay in partial harvests
• The effects of thinning intensity on snag and cavity tree abundance in a Appalachian hardwood stand
• A comparison of FVS/Suppose computed volume with USDA Forest Service cruise volume on the Monongahela National Forest
• The effect of using control bags on litterbag measurements of leaf litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics
• Understory fire effects on pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica L.f.) seed germination
• Using prescribed burning to release oak seedlings from shrub competition in southern Connecticut
• Construction methods for a county-wide land use/cover map
• Comparison of NE-TWIGS and ZELIG on actual growth of two sites in Kentucky
• The impact of prescribe fire on herbivory levels of understory white oak
• Nursery treatments alter root morphology of 1+0 northern red oak seedlings
• Effects of leaf litter depth on acorn germination
• Development of advanced oak regenerartiion from two-age reserve trees

Citation

Stringer, Jeffrey W.; Loftis, David L.; Lacki, Michael; Barnes, Thomas; Muller, Robert A. 1999. 12th Central Hardwood Forest Conference. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-24. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 293 p.