Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research

On-line version of the CBHR 2006 Annual Report to the Southern Hardwoods Forest Research Group (SHFRG)

USDA, Forest Service, Southern Research Station
Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research
Headquartered in Stoneville, Mississippi
with locations in
Oxford and Starkville, Mississippi and Pineville, Louisiana
Research Work Unit SRS-4155

Annual Report to the Southern Hardwood Forest Research Group

February 16, 2005

RESEARCH MISSION: To provide the scientific basis to manage southern bottomland hardwood and wetland forests and associated stream ecosystems for a sustained yield of forest products and other desired values.

Personnel

CURRENT AND FUTURE RESEARCH:

The project currently has more than 80 active studies and 18 cooperative, collection, or interagency agreements. There are many other formal and informal agreements with cooperators to conduct research. Cooperators include faculty from universities throughout the South, elsewhere in the U. S., and other countries. Individual scientists benefit greatly from informal working agreements with a variety of forest industry cooperators. These cooperative studies have been critical in providing needed expertise, manpower, and sites for many studies. The following updates on current research include only those studies for which substantial progress was made in the last year.

Fiscal Year 2004 Technology Transfer Highlights

Research Accomplishments -- Regeneration and Reproductive Biology (Problem 1)

Research Accomplishments -- Stand Development and Forest Health (Problem 2)

Research Accomplishments -- Terrestrial and Aquatic Fauna (Problem 3)

Research Accomplishments -- Process and Restoration (Problem 4)