Southern forest science: past, present, and future

Abstract

Southern forests provide innumerable benefits. Forest scientists, managers, owners, and users have in common the desire to improve the condition of these forests and the ecosystems they support. A first step is to understand the contributions science has made and continues to make to the care and management of forests. This book represents a celebration of past accomplishments, summarizes the current state of knowledge, and creates a vision for the future of southern forestry research and management. Chapters are organized into seven sections: "Looking Back," "Productivity," "Forest Health," "Water and Soils," "Socioeconomic," "Biodiversity," and "Climate Change." Each section is preceded by a brief introductory chapter. Authors were encouraged to focus on the most important aspects of their topics; citations are included to guide readers to further information.

Titles contained within Southern forest science: past, present, and future

• A history of southern forest science, management, and sustainability issues
• Southern forests: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
• Southern forest resource conditions and management practices from 1900-1950: Benefits of research
• Southern forest resource conditions and management practices from 1950-2000: Benefits of research
• The southern forest resource assessment: What we learned
• Productivity
• Silviculture and management strategies applicable to southern hardwoods
• The evolution of pine plantation silviculture in the Southern United States
• Reproduction cutting methods for naturally regenerated pine stands in the south
• The role of genetics and tree improvement in southern forest productivity
• Forest mensuration with remote sensing: A retrospective and a vision for the future
• Healthy forests in the South: Challenges for the 21st century
• Restoration of southern ecosystems
• Advances in the control and management of the southern pine bark beetles
• The impact and control of major southern forest diseases
• Monitoring the sustainability of the Southern forest
• Water and soils
• Influences of management of Southern forests on water quantity and quality
• Policy, uses, and values
• Forest values and attitudes in the South: Past and future research
• Nonindustrial forest landowner research: A synthesis and new directions
• Recreation and nontimber forest products
• Timber market research, private forests, and policy rhetoric
• Biodiversity and Southern forests
• Population viability as a measure of forest sustainability
• Responses of Southeastern amphibians and reptiles to forest management: A review
• Monitoring tree secies diversity over large spatial and temporal scales
• Population growth and the decline of natural Southern yellow pine forests
• Overview of global climate change and carbon sequestration
• Implications of global climate change for Southern forests: Can we separate fact from fiction?
• Carbon Sequestration in loblolly pine plantations: Methods, limitations, and research needs for estimating storage pools

Citation

Rauscher, H. Michael; Johnsen, Kurt, eds. 2004. Southern forest science: past, present, and future. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-75. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 394 p.