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Seventh Eastern Old-Growth Conference Ancient Forest and Endangered Species Science and Conservation in the South-central United States
The Peabody Hotel Conway Lecture Hall
Little Rock, Arkansas March 24-25, 2006
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About This Meeting
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Final Schedule and speakers
Due to limited space and meeting length (one day only), there will not be an open call for oral presentations. Rather, a list of speakers has been chosen by the organizing committee to reflect the type of work being conducted in this region.
Schedule (final): (Click here to download PDF version of this schedule)
Friday, March 24, 2006
7:00 a.m. - 8:10 a.m.: Registration (outside of Conway Hall)
8:10 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.: Robert Leverett, Eastern Native Tree Society Welcome and Introduction
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.: Don C. Bragg, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station Old-growth of the Arkansas region: past and present
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.: Rose-Marie Muzika, Forestry Department, University of Missouri-Columbia Old-growth forests of the Ozarks
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.: Michael C. Stambaugh*, Richard P. Guyette, and Daniel C. Dey, University of Missouri-Columbia Tree-Ring Lab Oak old-growth: lessons from the Holocene
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: Morning break (Conway Hall foyer)
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.: Daniel Griffin, University of Arkansas Tree-Ring Lab Ancient forests of the Cross Timbers ecotone
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.: Jesse Edmondson, University of Arkansas Tree-Ring Lab Ancient eastern redcedar of the Oklahoma Cross Timbers
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Lunch (on your own)
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Ron Masters, Tall Timbers Research Station and John Skeen, Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation The McCurtain County Wilderness area
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.: Joe Neal, USDA Forest Service, Ouachita National Forest Pine-bluestem restoration and red-cockaded woodpeckers
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.: Brian Lockhart, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station Bottomland hardwood old-growth: myth or matter of perspective?
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Afternoon break
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Dave Stahle, University of Arkansas Tree-Ring Lab Ancient cypress-tupelo at Bayou DeView, Arkansas, rediscovery site of the ivory-billed woodpecker
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.: David Luneau, University of Arkansas-Little Rock Ivory-billed woodpeckers rediscovered in Arkansas
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 pm.: Doug Zollner, The Nature Conservancy, Arkansas Field Office Conservation of the Big Woods of eastern Arkansas
4:30 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.: Robert Leverett Concluding remarks
Dinner on your own
Saturday, March 25, 2006
9:00 a.m. Depart downtown Little Rock for Bayou DeView field trip
3:00 p.m. Return to downtown Little Rock
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