Managing Upland Forests of the Midsouth

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Martin A. Spetich

   Title:  Research Forester

   Duty Station Address:

 

   USDA Forest Service

   Southern Research Station

   P.O. Box 1270

   Hot Springs, AR 71902

 

   Phone:  (501) 623-1180 ext. 105

   Fax:  (501) 623-0186

   E-mail:  mspetich@fs.fed.us

 

Other Delivery Addresses:

607 Reserve Street (walk-up address) or

100 Reserve Street (for FedEx/UPS deliveries)

Hot Springs, AR 71901

Education:

B.S.  Forest Biology, The Ohio State University

M.S.  Silviculture, The Ohio State University

Ph.D.  Forest Ecology and Silviculture, Purdue University

Duties, Current Research, and Other Professional Interests:

The overall objective of this research is to 1) address practical, applied forest management needs based on a combination of current scientific thought and needs expressed by field practitioners and 2) to get science results out to practitioners in a meaningful and useful way that will benefit both society and the environment.

This integrated research program addresses forest dynamics and the development of both short and long-term studies at three scales: stand, state, and regional.

These studies address:

• growth

• woody species reproduction

• competitive capacity

• stand dynamics

• stand composition

• keystone forest species restoration

• quantitative silviculture

• development of forest management methods

• forest ecology

• disturbance ecology

• diversity of upland hardwood forests from the Arkansas Interior Highlands to larger scales that include eastern upland hardwood forests

Forest dynamics of the:

• Ozark Highlands

• Boston Mountains

• Arkansas River Valley

• Ouachita Mountains

• eastern upland hardwood forests

Other topics include:

• oak decline

• land use history

• fire ecology

• regional dynamics of upland old-growth forests of the Midwest

Getting science results out, examples:

• an interactive web-based product based on some of this research is available at http://ncrs.fs.fed.us/oakus/

• Upland Oak Ecology Symposium proceedings with state-of-the-art knowledge/research.

Collaborative Research topics include:

• silviculture

• forest ecology

• fire history

• landscape ecology

• regeneration and long-term dynamics of forest development and composition

• spatial patterns and dynamics of upland hardwood forests

• spatial and temporal relationships of forests and forest components at the landscape scale

• effects of fire on stand development

• Russia's scientific nature reserves

My professional affiliations include:

• American Association for the Advancement of Science

• American Institute of Biological Sciences

• Ecological Society of America

• International Association for Landscape Ecology

• Natural Areas Association

• Society of American Foresters

• Torrey Botanical Society

Selected Recent Publications:

Selected publications of Dr. Marty Spetich