Changing Forests - Challenging Times: Proceedings of the New England Society of American Foresters 85th Winter Meeting

Abstract

Contains abstracts from 32 oral presentations and 53 posters presentations at the 85th annual winter meeting of the New England Society of American Foresters, in Portland, Maine, March 16-18, 2005.

Titles contained within Changing Forests - Challenging Times: Proceedings of the New England Society of American Foresters 85th Winter Meeting

• The Value of Long-term Silviculture Research for All Categories of Landowners, Large and Small, Private and Public
• Long-term Ecological Research at the Harvard Forest
• Use of Cybocephalus nipponicus (Coleoptera: Nitidulidea) for Biological Control of Elongate Hemlock Scale, Fiorinia externa (Homoptera: Diaspidae), in Pennsylvania Forests
• A Growing Network: Regional Invasive Plant Initiatives in New England
• Invasive Plants, Deer and Forest Regeneration: Observations from Southeastern Vermont
• Focus Species Forestry: an Applied Approach to Integrating Timber and Biodiversity Management in the Northeast
• Landscape-Scale Forest Planning - Using the American Marten as a Guide
• Profiles of Working Woodlands: Expanding the Definition of Active Forest Management
• Long-term Forest Genetics Research in Northeastern North America: a Sampler
• Sampling Hemlock Woolly Adelgid and Developing Insect-killing Fungi for Their Suppression
• Managing for Biodiversity in Maine?s Forests: a Maine Natural Areas Program Perspective
• Oriental Bittersweet: Understanding its Ecology and Planning its Control
• Influence of Forest Practices on Stand-scale Habitat Selection by Lynx in Northern Maine: Preliminary Results
• Regeneration Strategies of Japanese Barberry (Berberis thunbergii DC) in Coastal Forests of Maine
• A Biodiversity Scorecard for Sustainable Forestry: Simplifying Complexity
• What Landowners and Forest Managers Need to Know about Forest Carbon: a Background from Global to Local
• Carbon Storage in Northeastern US Forest Soils
• Long-term Hardwood Research Work in Quebec: the Example of Duchesnay Forest
• Alternate Year Beechnut Production and its Influence on Bear and Marten Populations
• Digging Out the Data: USDA Forest Service Research on the Penobscot Experimental Forest
• Effects of Silviculture on Mature Forest and Early-successional Shrubland Passerine Birds in Northern and Central New England
• VOS - Task Force Recommendations
• Forestry and Forest Heritage Tourism Opportunities for Landowners and Communities
• Global Trade in Forest Products: Implications for the Forest Products Industry and Timber Resources in New England
• Impact of a Shelterwood Harvest on the Net Carbon Balance of a Spruce/Hemlock Dominated Forest in Maine
• Bridging the Gap
• Development of Forest Carbon Stock and Stock Change Baselines in Support of the 2004 Climate Action Plan for Maine
• COLE: Carbon On-line Estimator, Version 2
• Listening to Old Beech & Young Cherry Trees - Experiences in the Alleghenies & Nearby
• Acadia Research Forest: a Primary Forest Research Facility for Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic
• What are National Forests Looking for from Professional Forestry Organizations?
• Implementing Forest Stewardship Plans in Urbanizing Areas - Opportunities for Resource Professionals
• A Forest in Conflict: the Proposal for a 3.2 Million Acre National Park and Preserve in Maine's Working Forest
• Long-term Stand Development in Uneven-aged Northern Hardwoods Under Selection System Management
• Variation in Soil Chemical Analytical Results Among Graduate Students
• Massabesic Experimental Forest
• Forester's Guide to NRCS' Technical Service Provider (TSP) Program
• Wildlife Responses to Invasive Shrubs in Early-successional Habitats of Southeastern New Hampshire
• Exotic and Native Tree Plantations at the Fox Research Forest and Vincent State Forest, New Hampshire
• Mice, Mast, and Group-selection Harvest: 20 Years on a Maine Pine-oak Forest
• Aboveground Biomass and Nutrient Content in Developing Hardwood Stands at Bartlett Experimental Forest, NH
• The Bear Brook Watershed in Maine ? Decadal Responses to Whole Forest Ecosystem Manipulations
• Disturbance History of Old-growth Red Spruce Stands in Northern Maine: Linking Tree-ring and Stem-mapped Data
• Changing Landownership in the Northern Forest: Effects on Biodiversity
• A State-wide Assessment of the Abundance and Distribution of the Peach Bark Beetle, Phloeotribus liminaris (Coleoptera: Scolytidae): a Potential Threat to Black Cherry
• Regeneration of Northern White-cedar Following Silvicultural Treatment: a Long-term Study
• Reality Check: Has the Massachusetts Current-use Tax Program Been Effective in Deterring Forest Parcelization?
• Land Use History and Forest Succession on Long Island, Maine
• Stand-level Responses of Northern White-cedar to Silvicultural Treatments in Central Maine
• Ecology and Silviculture of Northern White-cedar
• Competitive Position of the Maine Paper Industry: Benchmarking Against Competing Regions
• Habitat Features that Influence the Prevalence of Invasive Shrubs in Early successional Habitats: the Role of Spatial Scale
• Investigating the Onset of Radial Growth Reduction Caused by Balsam Woolly Adelgid Damage on Balsam Fir in Relation to Climate Using Dendroecological Methods
• Factors Influencing the Germination, Emergence, and Early Survival of Native and Non-native Tree Species in the Acadian Forest
• Sapling Recruitment and Growth Dynamics in Multi-aged Northern Conifer Stands: a 20-year Study
• Dynamics of Tree Growth and Composition Following Partial Cutting in an Oak − Pine Forest in Maine
• Field Efficiency and Bias of Methods for Snag and Cavity Tree Inventory
• P.O. Series ? Stand Dynamics
• Long-term Effects of Liming on Soil Chemistry in Northern Hardwood Forests
• Simulating Rehabilitation Treatments in Northern Hardwood Stands Following Diameter-limit Cutting
• Maine?s Commercial Thinning Research Network: a Long-term Research Installation Designed to Improve Our Understanding about How Forests Respond to Thinning
• The Pack Forest Plain: One of North America?s Oldest Forest Fertilization Experiments
• Land-use History as a Driver of Current Ecological Processes
• Effects of Silvicultural Treatments on Coarse Woody Debris in the Catskill Region
• Early Development of Gap Origin Northern Conifers: Do Modest Sized Canopy Openings Provide for Timely Recruitment Opportunities?
• Soil Characteristics 30-years Post-harvest on Maine Spruce Flats: Preliminary Results
• Patterns of Aboveground Biomass Accumulation in a Northern Temperate Forest
• Reconstructing the Interactions Between Acer rubrum, Betula lenta and Quercus rubra in a Mixed-species Forest in Central Massachusetts: Revisiting the Earl Stephens Plot
• Silviculture of Northern White-cedar in Mixedwood Forests
• Silviculture and Wildlife in Boreal Irregular Forests: a Cooperative Research Initiative
• Documenting the Ecological Effects of New Silvicultural Systems in Maine?s Acadian Forest
• Large Area Comparisons of Forest Management Practices (1951 - Present)
• Using Calicioid Lichens and Fungi to Assess Ecological Continuity in the Acadian Forest
• Forty Years of Partial Harvesting in Mixed Northern Conifers in Maine: Results from the Penobscot Experimental Forest
• Assessing Christmas Tree Response to N Fertilization
• Long-term Research on the USFS Kane Experimental Forest in Northwestern Pennsylvania
• Acadia Research Forest: a Living Laboratory
• The Cooperative Forestry Research Unit: a Partnership Between Maine?s Forest Managers and the University of Maine Since 1975
• Influence of Silvicultural Intensity and Compositional Objectives on the Productivity of Regenerating Forest Stands in Maine
• Influence of Disturbance on Ingrowth in Hardwood Forests: the Old-series Plots ? 1927-1997
• Elementary Silviculture: Presenting Forest Science to Children Through the NSF's GK-12 Fellowship
• Effect of Harvest Intensity on Soil Physical Properties and Site Productivity in Riparian Mixedwood Forests
• Lasting Effects of Hurricane Disturbance on Long-term Forest Development at the Harvard Forest
• Long-term study of a pine ? oak forest ecosystem: Holt Research Forest
• Tree Regeneration at Holt Research Forest: Impacts of Red Maple Removal and White-tailed Deer Browsing

Citation

Kenefic, Laura S.; Twery, Mark J., eds. 2005. Changing Forests - Challenging Times: Proceedings of the New England Society of American Foresters 85th Winter Meeting. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-325. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station. 85 p.