Proceedings, 16th central hardwood forest conference

Abstract

Proceedings of the 16th Central Hardwood Forest Conference held April 8-9, 2008, in West Lafayette, IN. Includes 64 papers pertaining to forest regeneration and propagation, forest products, ecology and forest dynamics, human dimensions and economics, forest biometrics and modeling, silviculture and genetics, forest health and protection, and soil and mineral nutrition.

Titles contained within Proceedings, 16th central hardwood forest conference

• Stump sprouting of oak species in three silvicultural treatments in the southern Appalachians
• Greenhouse and field performance of giant cane propagules from natural and planted stands
• Grafting influences on early acorn production in swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor Wild.)
• Single-tree harvesting reduces survival and growth of oak stump sprouts in the Missouri Ozark Highlands
• Comparing single-tree selection, group selection, and clearcutting for regenerating oaks and pines in the Missouri Ozarks
• Response of northern red oak, black walnut, and white ash seedlings to various levels of simulated summer deer browsing
• Disking and mid- and understory removal following an above-average acorn crop in three mature oak forests in southern Indiana
• The status of oak and hickory regeneration in forests of Virginia
• Analysis of riparian afforestation methods in the Missouri Ozarks
• Effects of deer exclosures on oak regeneration in closed-canopy stands
• Consumer ring count and grain texture preferences of selected eastern United States hardwoods
• Effect of curve sawing on lumber recovery and warp of short cherry logs containing sweep
• Preliminary silvicultural recommendations and an updated annotated bibliography for birdseye sugar maple
• The Amish furniture cluster in Ohio: competitive factors and wood use estimates
• Stress wave velocity and dynamic modulus of elasticity of yellow-poplar ranging from 100 to 10 percent moisture content
• Defect reduction in low-value white oak lumber using restrained drying
• Nontimber forest products in Daniel Boone National Forest region--economic significance and potential for sustainability
• U.S. hardwood lumber production: 1963 to 2003
• Synthetic rope applications in Appalachian logging
• Sources of the Indiana hardwood industry's competitiveness
• Long-term leaf fall mass from three watersheds on the Fernow Experimental Forest, West Virginia
• Distribution and dynamics of hayscented fern following stand harvest
• Shifts in relative stocking of common tree species in Kentucky from 1975 to 2004
• Forty-two years of change in an old-growth and second-growth beech-maple forest of north central Ohio
• Current forest conditions of older stands of the mixed mesophytic forest region on the Appalachian Plateaus Province of eastern Kentucky
• Twenty-year-old results from a bottomland oak species comparison trial in western Kentucky
• Contribution of stumps to carbon and nitrogen pools in southern Appalachian hardwood forests
• User group attitudes toward forest management treatments on the Shawnee National Forest: application of a photo-evaluation technique
• Estimating willingness to pay for protection of eastern black walnut from deer damage
• West Virginia forest industry transportation network analysis using GIS
• Exploring the optimal economic timing for crop tree release treatments in hardwoods: results from simulation
• A method for quantifying and comparing the costs and benefits of alternative riparian zone buffer widths
• Modeling landowner behavior regarding forest certification
• Landowner attitudes and perceptions of forest and wildlife management in rural northern Missouri
• Sustainable bioenergy production from Missouri's Ozark forests
• Effectiveness of the forest stewardship program in conserving natural resources on private lands in Indiana
• A whole stand basal area projection model for Appalachian hardwoods
• Adaptation of the QBR index for use in riparian forests of central Ohio
• Dominant height-based height-diameter equations for trees in southern Indiana
• A GIS-based approach to stand visualization and spatial pattern analysis in a mixed hardwood forest in West Virginia
• Using Lidar and color infrared imagery to successfully measure stand characteristics on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama
• Ecological modeling for forest management in the Shawnee National Forest
• Stand level height-diameter mixed effects models: parameters fitted using loblolly pine but calibrated for sweetgum
• Grapevine dynamics after manual tending of juvenile stands on the Hoosier National Forest, Indiana
• Thinning results from a mixed upland hardwood stand after 35 years
• Stand development of trembling aspen in Canaan Valley, West Virginia
• Deferred rotation harvests in central Appalachia: 20- and 25-year results
• Different histories but similar genetic diversity and structure for black walnut in Indiana and Missouri
• Variation in flood tolerance of container-grown seedlings of swamp white oak, bur oak, and white oak
• Crop tree release increases growth of red oak sawtimber in southern New England: 12-year results
• Species composition, diameter distribution, and crown class at initiation of a thinning study of pole-size hardwood stands in the Hoosier National Forest
• Fungi associated with stem cankers and coincidental scolytid beetles on declining hickory in the upper midwest
• Managing Japanese stiltgrass dominated communities in the ridge and valley physiographic province in eastern West Virginia
• The extent of selected non-native invasive plants on Missouri forestland
• Investigating the relationship between bole scorch height and fire intensity variables in the ridge and valley physiographic province, West Virginia
• Seed bank emergence following prescribed burning in the Ozark Highlands
• Fire scars and tree vigor following prescribed fires in Missouri Ozark upland forests
• Status of oak seedlings and saplings in the northern United States: implications for sustainability of oak forests
• Early understory biomass response to organic matter removal and soil compaction
• Effect of fertilizer treatments on an alkaline soil and on early performance of two bottomland oak species
• Effects of moisture and nitrogen stress on gas exchange and nutrient resorption in Quercus rubra seedlings
• Influence of microtopography on soil chemistry and understory riparian vegetation
• Growth and foliar nitrogen concentrations of interplanted native woody legumes and pecan
• Black walnut suitability index: a Natural Resources Conservation Service national soil information system based interpretive model

Citation

Jacobs, Douglass F.; Michler, Charles H., eds. 2008. Proceedings, 16th central hardwood forest conference. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-24. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 595 p. [CD-ROM].