Oak symposium: sustaining oak forests in the 21st century through science-based management

Abstract

The 2017 Oak Symposium was convened in Knoxville, TN, to share knowledge on state-of-the-art management and research to improve sustainability of the upland oak resource in the Eastern United States. The symposium featured 33 invited speakers, an audience discussion period, a field trip, and 21 offered posters. Speakers addressed topics including the history of silviculture, fire, and research; current status of the oak resource; emerging economic markets; forest health; silviculture for climate change; artificial regeneration; wildlife habitat management; approaches to secure natural advanced oak regeneration; prescribed burning to promote oak regeneration; and management of woodland habitat. Presenters represented various organizations from non-governmental organizations, Federal agencies, State agencies, universities, and industry.

Titles contained within Oak symposium: sustaining oak forests in the 21st century through science-based management

• What do we know about oaks? Keystones of oak silviculture
• The place of oak trees in forests of the United States—a brief summary of forest inventory data
• The Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change project: a scientist–manager partnership
• Impacts of oak decline, gypsy moth, and native spring defoliators on the oak resource in Virginia
• The oak timber base and market: past, present, and future
• Prescribed fire effects on wildlife in eastern oak ecosystems
• Emerging needs for oak management and research.
• Adapting oak management in an age of ongoing mesophication but warming climate
• Identifying and addressing vulnerabilities of oak ecosystems
• Recruiting oak using midstory herbicide shelterwood prescriptions in Cumberland Plateau forests in Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky
• Effectiveness of herbicide and fire to favor oak regeneration in Ohio shelterwood stands
• Application of midstory removal to enhance oak regeneration potential within uniform and irregular shelterwood systems
• Prescribed fire, oak regeneration, and future forest flammability
• The fundamentals of release burning in mixed oak forests with emphasis on the shelterwood-burn technique
• Inferring fire regimes from data you may already have: assessing landfire fire regime maps using local products
• Artificial regeneration in the Southern Appalachians
• Developing a system for artificial regeneration of fine hardwood species and management to maturity on the Ames Plantation
• Artificial regeneration on the North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area in Tennessee
• Overview of oak markets and marketing
• Considerations in the utilization of oak
• Applied historical ecology: bringing perspective and questions about oak woodland ecology and management
• Silviculture to restore oak woodlands and savannas
• Practical considerations for long-term maintenance of oak woodlands
• Manual herbicide application methods for managing vegetation in Appalachian hardwood forests
• Rehabilitation of poorly stocked stands using a microstand approach
• Wildlife response to oak ecosystem restoration
• Forest management for Golden-winged and Cerulean Warblers—lessons learned from forest management experiments
• Herpetofaunal responses to forest management: a synopsis of findings in oak-hardwood restoration forest stands. In: Clark, S.L.; Schweitzer, C.J., eds
• Intercropping oaks and pines
• Browse rates of planted oak on a reclaimed mine
• Species-specific mechanisms contributing to the mesophication of upland oak stands in the absence of fire
• Mixed-severity wildfire promotes oak sapling recruitment and understory species richness on the Cumberland Plateau, Kentucky
• Cultural resources plantings of white oak for Cherokee basketry
• Delphi expert opinion survey to assess threats to oaks in the Eastern United States
• TreeSnap: a citizen science tool to help our forests
• Survival, cause-specific mortality, and spatial ecology of white-tailed deer in the north Georgia mountains
• Twenty-five years of oak-mast surveys and Allegheny woodrat populations in western Maryland
• Twenty-five-year effects of cutting and prescribed fire on northern red oak regeneration in Michigan oak and pine stands
• Dendroecological analysis of continued Quercus dominance on edaphically extreme southeastern slopes of the Alleghany Front
• Two image classification options for quantifying eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) encroachment into the Cross Timbers region
• Upland oak regeneration response to prescribed fire and canopy gap disturbances
• On the origin(s) of Diplodia corticola: causal agent of cosmopolitan canker disease of Quercus spp
• Assessing change in hardwood forests of the Wayne National Forest, southeastern Ohio
• Methods to tame Ailanthus in mixed oak forests, what works: prescribed fire, herbicides, or biological control?
• Red maple sprouting clumps dominate oaks after thinning and burning
• Value and status of state-and-transition models for oak systems: Appalachians and Central Hardwood regions
• Oak Decline—What We Know Today and What To Do About It
• The use of fire and thinning to promote oak regeneration on private property in the southern Cumberland Plateau
• Upland oak and mesophyte seedling morphological traits in response to prescribed fire

Keywords

Climate change, economic markets, oak woodlands, prescribed fire, regeneration, silviculture, wildlife.

Citation

Clark, Stacy L.; Schweitzer, Callie J., eds. 2019. Oak symposium: sustaining oak forests in the 21st century through science-based management. e-Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-237. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 192 p.