Monday, August 6, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
B3&4, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
OOS 2 - Forest restoration at the scale of the landscape
This session addresses the ecological and social implications of forest restoration when carried out at the scale of the landscape. The goal is to bring together practitioners from throughout the Americas who have taken innovative, large-scale experimental approaches to forest restoration. We present studies involving manipulation or restoration of forest spatial configuration to achieve goals such as improved nutrient retention or hydrologic characteristics, better continuity for wildlife, alteration of flammability characteristics, or alteration of ecosystem successional trajectories. Because forested landscapes inevitably have people living in them, we also present the work of social scientists who have studied human communities in restored forested landscapes.
Organizer:	Seth W. Bigelow, USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station, Sierra Nevada Research Center
Co-organizer:	Carolyn Hunsaker, USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station, Sierra Nevada Research Center
Moderator:	Seth W. Bigelow, USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station, Sierra Nevada Research Center
1:30 PM	OOS 2-1		Reforestation in the Panama Canal watershed: Assessing the ecosystem Jefferson Hall, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Richard Condit, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Mark S. Ashton, Yale University
1:50 PM	OOS 2-2		Wildfire effects in mixed conifer forests from Northwestern Mexico: Possible targets for restoration Scott Stephens, University of California - Berkeley
2:10 PM	OOS 2-3		A landscape experiment for forest restoration in the southern Sierra Nevada: Kings River Project Carolyn T. Hunsaker, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Sierra Nevada Research Center
2:30 PM	OOS 2-4		Reintroducing fire and thinning to dry forests: Creating nested landscapes Paul F. Hessburg, USDA Forest Service
2:50 PM	OOS 2-5		Managing the restoration of a forestland in the Sierra Nevada John R. Mount, Southern California Edison
3:10 PM			Break
3:20 PM	OOS 2-6		Large-scale forest restoration in the coastal Sitka spruce zone: An experimental approach at Ellsworth Creek, Washington, USA David N. Rolph, The Nature Conservancy, Liane B. Davis, The Nature Conservancy
3:40 PM	OOS 2-7		Landscape restoration of forest landscape structure based on historic disturbance regimes: A western Oregon case Cheryl A. Friesen, USDA Forest Service, Frederick J. Swanson, USDA Forest Service, Pacific NW Research Station
4:00 PM	OOS 2-8		Prioritizing prescribed fire at the landscape scale to overcome burning deficits and meet ecosystem management objectives: The case study of Eglin AFB Kevin Hiers, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center, James H. Furman, Eglin AFB, Bruce Hagedorn, Eglin AFB, Chadwick Avery, Eglin AFB
4:20 PM	OOS 2-9		Planning and simulating forest landscape restoration in a mixed-ownership landscape under climate change Catherine Ravenscroft, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Robert M. Scheller, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mark A. White, The Nature Conservancy, David Mladenoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:40 PM	OOS 2-10		Restoration of old-growth forest structure in the northeastern United States: Experimental evaluation of silvicultural options William S. Keeton, University of Vermont

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