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Monday, October 18,
2004
6:00 pm Registration
and Reception
Tuesday, October 19,
2004
8:00 am Welcome
and Introductory Remarks - Martin Ritchie, Pacific Southwest
Research Station, USDA-Forest Service, Redding, CA.
8:15-9:00 Keynote
- Resources of Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems - Issues, Policies, Future
- Hal Salwasser, Dean, College of Forestry, Oregon State
University, Corvallis, OR.
9:00-9:45 Keynote
- Overview of Ponderosa Pine
Ecosystems - Russ Graham, Rocky Mountain Research Station,
USDA-Forest Service, Moscow, ID.
9:45-10:30 Keynote
- An Overview of Key Silvicultural Information (no
PowerPoint presentation) - John Fiske, retired, USDA-Forest
Service, Vallejo, CA; John Tappeiner, Department of Forest Resources,
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Context of Symposium
Moderator:
Doug Maguire, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University,
Corvallis, OR.
11:00-11:30
Past and Future Research
at Pringle Falls Experimental Forest - Andy Youngblood,
Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA-Forest Service, La Grande,
OR.
11:30-12:00
Accelerating Development of
Late-seral Features in Second-growth Pine Stands: The Goosenest
Adaptive Management Area - Martin Ritchie, Pacific Southwest
Research Station, USDA-Forest Service, Redding, CA.
12:00-1:00
Lunch, on-site
1:00-3:00
Silviculture/Ecosystem Management
Moderator:
Stephen Fitzgerald, Forestry Extension, Oregon State University,
Corvallis, OR.
1:00-1:30 Silvicultural Systems for Ponderosa Pine (no
PowerPoint presentation)- Andy Youngblood, Pacific
Northwest Research Station, USDA-Forest Service, La Grande, OR.
1:30-2:00
Multiaged Silviculture of Ponderosa
Pine - Kevin O'Hara, University of California, Berkeley,
CA.
2:00-2:30
The West-wide Ponderosa Pine
Levels-of-growing-stock Study at Age 40 - Bill Oliver,
retired, Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA-Forest Service,
Redding, CA.
2:30-3:00
Natural Regeneration of Ponderosa
Pine - Chris Keyes, Humboldt State University, Arcata,
CA.
3:00-3:30
Break
3:30-5:00
Projects and Case Studies I
Moderator:
Stephen Fitzgerald, Forestry Extension, Oregon State University,
Corvallis, OR.
3:30-4:00 Lessons Learned
on 50,000 Acres of Pine Plantations - Jeff Webster, Total
Forestry, Medford, OR.
4:00-4:30
Ponderosa Pine Management
in the Klamath Basin - Norm Michaels, Fremont/Winema National
Forests, Lakeview, OR.
4:30-5:00
Aspects of Ponderosa Pine Wood Quality Important for Manufactured
Products (no PowerPoint presentation)-
Kim Murillo, Jeld-Wen, Klamath Falls, OR.
Wednesday, October 20,
2004
8:00 - 5:00
Field Trips
Goose Nest
Adaptive Management Area - Tour Leader: Martin Ritchie, Pacific
Southwest Research Station, USDA-Forest Service, Redding, CA.
Pringle Falls
Experimental Forest - Tour Leader: Andy Youngblood, Pacific
Northwest Research Station, USDA-Forest Service, La Grande, OR.
Winema/Fremont
National Forests - Tour Leader: Norm Michaels, Fremont/Winema
National Forests, Lakeview, OR.
Sun Pass
State Forest - Tour Leader: Ed DeBlander, Management Unit Forester,
ODF - Klamath Falls, OR.
Thursday, October 21,
2004
8:00-10:00
Range and Wildlife Issues and Management
Moderator:
Doug Maguire, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University,
Corvallis, OR.
8:00-8:30 Songbird and Small
Mammal Responses to Experimental Forest Treatments of Thinning
and Prescribed Fire in Ponderosa Pine Forests of Northern California
- Luke George, Department of Wildlife, Humboldt State University,
Arcata, CA.
8:30-9:00
Ungulate Ecology of Ponderosa
Pine Ecosystems - Marty Vavra, USDA-Forest Service, Pacific
Northwest Research Station, La Grande, OR.
9:00-9:30
Effects of Site and Scale
on the Demographics of Standing Dead Trees [Snags] in Eastside
Pine Forests - Bill Laudenslayer, USDA-Forest Service,
Pacific Southwest Research Station, Fresno, CA.
9:30-10:00
Woodpecker and Snag Interactions:
an Overview of Current Knowledge in Ponderosa Pine Systems
- Kerry Farris, Wildlife Conservation Society, Pacific West
Program, Portland, OR.
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-12:00
Soils and Productivity
Moderator:
Gary Nakamura, University of California, The Center for Forestry
Cooperative, Redding, CA.
10:30-11:00 Will Ponderosa
Pine Plantations Respond to Intensive Management? Long-term Case
Studies from California - Bob Powers, USDA-Forest Service,
Pacific Southwest Research Stations, Redding, CA.
11:00-11:30
Management of Ponderosa Pine
Nutrition through Fertilization - Terry Shaw, Intermountain
Forest Tree Nutrition Cooperative, Forest Resources Department,
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.
11:30-12:00
Long-term Trends in Soil Productivity:
Who Will Speak for the Soil? - Matt Busse, USDA-Forest
Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Redding , CA.
12:00-1:00
Lunch, on-site
1:00-1:30
Soils and Productivity (continued)
Moderator:
Andy Youngblood, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest
Service, La Grande, OR.
1:00-1:30 Coarse Woody
Debris: Is There a Nutritional Legacy? - Debbie Page-Dumroese,
USDA-Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow,
ID.
1:30-4:00
Forest Disturbance
Moderator:
Andy Youngblood, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest
Service, La Grande, OR.
1:30-2:00 Disease as an Agent
of Disturbance in Ponderosa Pine - Greg Filip, USDA-Forest
Service, Pacific Northwest Region, Portland, OR.
2:00-2:30
Bugs in the System: New Research
Focuses on the Development of Tools to Minimize Ponderosa Pine
Losses from Western Pine Beetle - Chris Fettig, USDA-Forest
Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Davis, CA.
2:30-3:00
Fire Ecology of Ponderosa
Pine Ecosystems - Steve Fitzgerald, Forestry Extension,
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
3:00-3:30
Break
3:30-4:00
Managing Antelope Bitterbrush
in Ponderosa Pine Forests: Who Will Speak for the Understory Vegetation?
- Gregg Riegel, USDA-Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region,
Central Oregon Interagency Ecology Program, Bend, OR.
4:00-5:00
Projects and Case Studies II
Moderator:
Martin Ritchie, Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest
Service, Redding, CA.
4:00-4:30 Reintroducing Fire
in the Blacks Mountain Research Natural Area - Carl Skinner,
USDA-Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Redding,
CA.
4:30-5:00
Determining the Levels of Growing
Stock for Uneven-aged Management - John Arena, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Branch of Forestry, Warm Springs, OR.
5:00-5:15
Closing Remarks - Martin Ritchie, Pacific Southwest Research
Station, USDA-Forest Service, Redding, CA.
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