Managing Upland Forests of the Midsouth

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James M. Guldin

   Title:  Research Ecologist and Project Leader

   Duty Station Address:

 

   USDA Forest Service

   Southern Research Station

   P.O. Box 1270

   Hot Springs, AR 71902

 

   Phone:  (501) 623-1180 ext. 103

   Fax:  (501) 623-0186

   E-mail:  jguldin@fs.fed.us

 

Other Delivery Addresses:

607 Reserve Street (walk-up address) or

100 Reserve Street (for FedEx/UPS deliveries)

Hot Springs, AR 71901

RWU-4159 Project Office:

113 Chamberlin Forestry Resources Building

P.O. Box 3516, UAM Station

Monticello, AR 71656-3516

phone:  (870) 367-3464

fax:  (870) 367-1164

Education:

Ph.D. (1982), Silvicuture/Quantitative Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

M.F.S. (1977), Silviculture/Forest Ecology, Yale University

B.S. (1975), Forest Science, Pennsylvania State University

Duties, Current Research, and Other Professional Interests:

Guldin maintains a project administrative office in Monticello but his duty station is in Hot Springs. As Project Leader, he supervises five scientists, ten technical support staff, and two project staff. He also oversees the unit science program and administers the expenditure of roughly $1.7 million annually in appropriated funds.

Guldin serves as Team Leader for the Ouachita Mountains Ecosystem Management Research Project, conducted in cooperation with the Ouachita NF and Ozark NF of Region 8 and forest industry in the Interior Highlands of Arkansas and Oklahoma. He is the "Cross-cutting Theme Champion" for the theme, "Sustainability and Productivity of the Interior Highlands Ecosystem", one of six cross-cutting themes identified within the Southern Research Station's strategic science implementation framework to help public and private forest land managers meet the current and future challenges of natural resource management in the South.  He also serves as the Southern Research Station's state coordinator for Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Guldin’s research interests include the study of reproduction cutting methods and silvicultural systems that emphasize natural regeneration, especially application of uneven-aged systems and the general comparative attributes of even-aged systems and uneven-aged systems. He has established a reputation nationally as an authority in uneven-aged silviculture and management of naturally regenerated stands, and is an enthusiastic advocate for consideration of the method. He is a frequently-invited contributor in continuing education, training, and short courses on uneven-aged silviculture, having been invited to participate in university-level continuing education courses in Montana, Utah, Colorado, South Carolina, Virginia, California, and New Mexico, and in consulting projects with forest industry. His most recent research interests are in the technical application and scientific foundations of ecosystem management, especially in application to federal lands. 

Prior to his Southern Research Station appointment, Guldin served on the faculty of the Department of Forest Resources, Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Arkansas at Monticello from January 1982 to December 1992.  During that time, he taught ten different courses, with a total of 44 separate sections offered. This included the first graduate forestry course ever offered at UAM, through the University of Arkansas Graduate School, where Guldin held concurrent appointment on the Graduate Faculty.

Selected Recent Publications:

Refereed Journal Publications

Refereed Book Chapters

Other Publications