Proceedings, 18th Central Hardwood Forest Conference

Abstract

Includes 44 papers and 41 abstracts pertaining to research conducted on biofuels and bioenergy, forest biometrics, forest ecology and physiology, forest economics, forest health including invasive species, forest soils and hydrology, geographic information systems, harvesting and utilization, silviculture, and wildlife management.

Titles contained within Proceedings, 18th Central Hardwood Forest Conference

• Initial landscape changes associated with Marcellus shale development—implications for forests and wildlife
• The Northern Forest Futures Project: examining past, present, and future trends affecting forests in and around the central hardwood forest region
• Technical challenges and opportunities in cogasification of coal and biomass
• West Virginia wood waste from uncharted sources: log landings and active surface mines
• Growth and yield for a 7-year-old yellow-poplar plantation in northern West Virginia
• Individual tree, merchantable stem green weight and volume equations for four bottomland hardwood oak species in southeast Arkansas
• ForestCrowns: a software tool for analyzing ground-based digital photographs of forest canopies
• Effect of weed control treatments on total leaf area of plantation black walnut (Juglans nigra)
• A multi-century analysis of disturbance dynamics in pine-oak forests of the Missouri Ozark Highlands
• Nine-year performance of four hardwoods on a harvested site with and without fertilizer tree shelters, and weed mats in southern Illinois
• Winter Iinjury of American chestnut seedlings grown in a common garden at the species' northern range limit
• Regional and geomorphic influence on the productivity, composition, and structure of oak ecosystems in the western central hardwoods region
• Influence of disturbance on stand development during forest succession
• Do region and gender influence hardwood product selection?
• The influence of trade associations and group certification programs on the hardwood certification movement
• The economic impact of timber harvesting practices on NIPF properties in West Virginia
• Engaging landowners effectively: creating a Call Before You Cut campaign in the central hardwoods region
• Biotic agents responsible for rapid crown decline and mortality of hickory in northeastern and north central USA
• Preliminary report of ecological factors influencing incidence and severity of beech bark disease in the Appalachian region
• Treating Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii) during the dormant season
• Managing an oak decline crisis in Oakville, Ontario: lessons learned
• Managing ash in farm woodlots: some suggested prescriptions
• Sediment associated with forest operations in the Piedmont region
• Assessment of freshwater withdrawals and availability for Marcellus shale natural gas development: a case study in Pennsylvania
• A West Virginia case study: does erosion differ between streambanks clustered by the bank assessment of nonpoint source consequences of sediment (BANCS) model parameters?
• Evaluating relationships between natural resource management, land use changes, and flooding in the Appalachian region
• Comparison of LiDAR-derived data and high resolution true color imagery for extracting urban forest cover
• Spectral reflectance of five hardwood tree species in southern Indiana
• Improving strand quality of upland oaks for use in oriented strand board
• An integrated 3D log processing optimization system for small sawmills in central Appalachia
• Predicting internal red oak (Quercus rubra) log defect features using surface defect defect measurements
• RAYSAW: a log sawing simulator for 3D laser-scanned hardwood logs
• Influence of planting stocks on the survival and growth of Nuttall and cherrybark oak planted on lands damaged by Hurricane Katrina
• Post-harvest prescribed burning of oak stands: an alternative to the shelterwood-burn technique?
• Response of naturally regenerated and underplanted white oak (Quercus alba L.) seedlings 6 years following midstory removal
• Changes to oak woodland stand structure and ground flora composition caused by thinning and burning
• The case for delaying planting of bottomland oaks: an example involving Nuttall oaks
• Impact of professional foresters on timber harvests on West Virginia nonindustrial private forests
• Efficacy and nontarget impact of midstory injection in bottomland hardwoods
• Midstory hardwood species respond differently to chainsaw girdle method and herbicide treatment
• Analysis of two pre-shelterwood prescribed fires in a mesic mixed-oak forest in West Virginia
• Stump sprouting of northern pin oak on nutrient-poor sandy soils in central Wisconsin
• Natural cavity characteristics and cavity bird abundance on West Virginia forested islands of the Ohio River
• Herpetofaunal abundance in forested edge and interior locations of West Virginia
• Survival rates of female white-tailed deer on an industrial forest following a decline in population density
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Keywords

forest management, central hardwood forest, forest ecology, silviculture, invasive species, bioenergy, wildlife management

Citation

Miller, Gary W.; Schuler, Thomas M.; Gottschalk, Kurt W.; Brooks, John R.; Grushecky, Shawn T.; Spong, Ben D.; Rentch, James S., eds. 2013. Proceedings, 18th Central Hardwood Forest Conference.; 2012 March 26-28; Morgantown, WV; Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-117. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 531 p. CD-ROM.