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Balancing Ecosystem Values
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Sunday, August 15 (Doubletree
Lloyd Center First Level - Oregon Room)
15:00-19:00
Registration
18:00 Ice Breaker
Monday, August 16 (Doubletree
Lloyd Center Second Level - Mt. Bachelor/Hood Rooms)
7:00 Registration
Opening Plenary
Session
Moderator: Charley Peterson, USDA-FS PNW Research Station,
Portland, Oregon, USA
8:00 Welcome
and Opening Remarks - Charley Peterson, USDA-FS PNW Research
Station, Portland, Oregon, USA
8:15 Keynote:
Managing forest ecosystems with continuous research involvement
- Klaus von Gadow, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
9:00 Keynote:
Long-term forest experiments: the need to convert data into knowledge
- John Innes, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada
9:45 Break
10:15 Keynote:
The essential role of long-term studies in providing for the basis
for science-based resource management - Jerry Franklin, University
of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA (No
Presentation Available)
11:00 Keynote:
Adaptive management for biodiversity and managed forests - it can
be done - Fred Bunnell, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada
11:45 Lunch
(Doubletree Hotel First Level, Pacific Northwest Ballroom)
Plenary Session
(Cont.)
Moderator:
Doug Maguire, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
13:00 Invited
paper: Design challenges in large-scale management experiments -
Lisa Ganio, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
13:30 Invited
paper: Development and application of simulation models to design
and project silvicultural systems in british columbia - Jim
Goudie, British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada
14:00 Invited
paper: Scaling up from stands to landscapes: lessons, barriers,
and opportunities - Tom Spies, USDA-FS PNW Research Station,
Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Concurrent
Session A - Regional Experiments 1- (Mt. Bachelor/Hood
Rooms)
Moderator: Steve Reutebuch, USDA-FS PNW Research Station, Seattle,
Washington, USA
14:30 Applying
alternatives to clearcutting: has british columbia's silvicultural
systems research program had any effect? - Alan Vyse, British
Columbia Forest Service, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
15:00 Evaluation
of silvicultural options for harvesting douglas-fir young growth
production forests - David Marshall, USDA-FS PNW Research Station,
Olympia, Washington, USA
15:30 Break
16:00 Are
landscape-level effects more than the sum of stand-level effects
in the missouri ozark forest ecosystem project (mofep)? - Eric
Zenner, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
16:30 Ten-year
results of the forest ecosystem research program: successes and
challenges - Mike Saunders, University of Maine, Orono, Maine,
USA
17:00 Public
perceptions of alternative silvicultural treatments - Gordon Bradley,
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA (No
Presentation Available)
Concurrent
Session B - Modeling and Simulation - (3 Sisters Room)
Moderator: Timo Kuuluvainen, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
14:30 Simulating
structural development and fire resistance of second-growth ponderosa
pine stands under four alternative treatments - Stephen Fitzgerald,
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
15:00 Effects
of different levels of canopy tree retention on stocking and yield
of the regeneration cohort in the southern interior of british columbia
- Temesgen Hailemariam, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon,
USA (No Presentation Available)
15:30 Break
16:00 Projections
of future overstory stand structure and composition following variable
retention harvests in the pacific northwest - Paul Schwarz,
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
16:30 Observed
changes in ground saturation following various harvesting patterns:
implications for conserving aquatic and avian species - Adelaide
Johnson, USDA-FS PNW Research Station, Juneau, Alaska, USA
Tuesday, August 17
In-conference
tour #1
8:00 Depart
for Capitol Forest - (Doubletree Hotel Entrance)
17:00
Return from Capitol Forest
Wednesday, August 18
- (Second Level, Mt. Bachelor/Hood Rooms)
Plenary Session
Moderator: Susan Hummel, USDA-FS PNW Research Station, Portland, Oregon,
USA
8:00 Invited
paper: Integrating natural disturbance parameters into conventional
silvicultural systems: experience from the acadian forest of northeastern
north america - Bob Seymour, University of Maine, Orono, Maine,
USA (No Presentation Available)
8:30 Invited
paper: Active intentional management (AIM) for biodiversity &
other forest values - Andy Carey, USDA-FS PNW Research Station,
Olympia, Washington, USA
9:00 Invited
paper: Do innovative experiments lead to innovative silvicultural
systems? - Klaus Puettmann, Oregon State University, Corvallis,
Oregon, USA
9:30 Break
Concurrent
Session C - Biodiversity 1 - (Mt. Bachelor/Hood Rooms)
Moderator: Connie Harrington, USDA-FS PNW Research Station,
Olympia, Washington, USA
10:00 Results
from green-tree retention experiments: ectomycorrhizal fungi - Dan
Luoma, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA (No
Presentation Available)
10:30 Wildlife
response to fire and thinning treatments in ponderosa pine -
Steve Zack, Wildlife Conservation Society, Portland, Oregon, USA
11:00 Effects
of forest structural retention harvest on resource availability
and habitat utilization of bark-foraging birds - Maria Mayrhofer,
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
11:30 Fate
of taxa after variable retention harvesting in douglas-fir forests
of western north america - Doug Maguire, Oregon State University,
Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Concurrent
Session D - Fire & Fire Surrogates - (3 Sisters Room)
Moderator: Morris Johnson, USDA-FS PNW Station, Seattle, Washington,
USA
10:00 Implementation
of the fire and fire surrogate study, a national study of the consequences
of prescribed fire and fire surrogate treatments for fuel reduction
- Andy Youngblood, USDA-FS PNW Research Station, LaGrande, Oregon,
USA
(No Presentation Available)
10:30 A
collaborative approach to forest management: using a landscape level
dynamic simulation model as a tool to enhance communication among
diverse landowners - Christine Stalling, USDA-FS Rocky Mountain
Research Station, Missoula, Montana, USA
11:00 Predicting
the cumulative effects of forest management in a multi-ownership
forest landscape - David Lytle, USDA-FS North Central Research
Station, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA
11:30 Restorative
management of boreal forest stands with and without fire: an experimental
approach - Timo Kuuluvainen, University of Helsinki, Helsinki,
Finland
12:00 Lunch
- (Doubletree Hotel First level - Lloyd Center Ballroom)
Concurrent
Session E - Regional Experiments 2 - (Mt. Bachelor/Hood
Rooms)
Moderator: Bruce Larson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
British Columbia
13:00 Variable
retention adaptive management experiments: testing new approaches
for managing British Columbia`s coastal forests - Bill Beese,
Weyerhaeuser BC Coastal Timberlands, Nanaimo, British Columbia,
Canada
13:30 Assessment
of silvicultural systems for maintaining old-growth conditions in
the temperate rainforest of southeast alaska - Mike McClellan,
USDA-FS Pacific Northwest Research Station, Juneau, Alaska, USA
14:00 Managing
for old-growth forest structure in northern hardwood forests: experimental
test of a restorative silvicultural system - Bill Keeton, University
of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
14:30 Break
15:00 Silviculture
treatments for ecosystem management in the sayward - The stems experiment
- Louise de Montigny, BC Ministry of Forests, British Columbia,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
15:30 Blending
stand-level treatments and landscape planning with opportunities
for research in a working forest - Jeff Boyce, Meridian Environmental,
Seattle, Washington, USA
16:00 Montane
alternative silvicultural systems (MASS): designing experiments
for the future - Al Mitchell, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada
Concurrent
Session F - Biodiversity 2 - (3 Sisters Room)
Moderator: Bob Seymour, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA
13:00 Using
spatially variable overstory retention to restore structural and
compositional complexity in pine ecosystems - Brian Palik, USDA-FS
North Central Research Station, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA
13:30 Effects
of thinning and prescribed fire on understory vegetation in interior
pine forests of the southern cascades - Martin Ritchie, USDA-FS
Pacific Southwest Research Station, Redding, California, USA
14:00 Vegetation
response to alternative thinning treatments in young douglas-fir
stands - Liane Beggs, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon,
USA
14:30 Break
15:00 Harvested
pine plantations: maintenance of forested corridors effect within
plantations on herpetofauna assemblages - Mac Baughman, MeadWestvaco,
Summerville, South Carolina, USA
15:30 Green-tree
retention in managed forests: post-harvest responses of salamanders
- Chris Maguire, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
16:00 Understory
and tree responses to variable density thinning in western washington
- Connie Harrington, USDA-FS Pacific Northwest Research Station,
Olympia, Washington, USA
18:00 Poster
session with buffet - (Doubletree Hotel Second Level, Mt.
St. Helens Room)
Thursday, August 19
In-conference
tours #2 and #3
8:00 Depart
for Paradise Hills DEMO site or BLM Density Management study - (Doubletree
Hotel Entrance)
17:00 Return
from Paradise Hills DEMO site or BLM Density Management study
Friday, August
20 - (Doubletree Hotel Second Level, Mt. Bachelor/Hood Rooms)
Plenary Session
- Assessment of Workshop: Is the Research Valuable and Effective?
In this final
plenary session, a panel of experts will help us frame our thoughts
from scientific, sociological, and land management perspectives,
based on what they have heard and seen throughout the week.
8:00 Format
Overview and Introduction
Charley Peterson, USDA-FS PNW Research Station, Portland, Oregon,
USA
8:15 Panel Introduction
and Moderation
Gary Hartshorn, President and CEO of World Forestry Center, Portland,
Oregon, USA
8:30 Opening
Statement
Denise Lach, Co-Director, Institute for Natural Resources, Oregon
State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
8:45 Opening
Statement - Russ McKinley, Timberlands Manager, Boise Building Solutions,
Medford, Oregon, USA
9:00 Opening
Statement - Jim Golden, Deputy Regional Forester, USDA-FS Region
6, Portland, Oregon, USA
9:15 Opening
Statement - Gretchen Nicholas, Manager, Land Management Division,
Washington Department of Natural Resources, Olympia, Washington,
USA
9:30 Panel discussion
10:30 Break
11:00 Synthesis
and Summary Remarks - E. David Ford, University of Washington, Seattle,
Washington, USA
11:30 Closing
Remarks and Future Plans - Charley Peterson, USDA-FS PNW Research
Station, Portland, Oregon, USA
12:00 Adjourn
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