Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Mesilla, Albuquerque Convention Center
OOS 10 - Ecological Research on Defense and Other Federal Lands
Federally owned and managed lands support many of the most valuable ecological resources remaining in the United States. The Department of Defense (DOD) is the third largest federal land management agency in the country, with management responsibilities on over 25 million acres. Military installations, and similar sites managed by NASA and the DOE, often represent some of the largest contiguous tracts of relatively undeveloped lands in otherwise fragmented habitat. As such, they can play an important role in the management of habitat for threatened, endangered, or otherwise sensitive species. While their formal mission is not one of land management, for the past several years, these agencies have regularly supported research on many of these at-risk species with the goal of facilitating the development of guidelines for management of these species in ways that protects their habitats while allowing the agency to meet its mission responsibilities. The objectives of this session will be to bring together researchers from the DOD, other Federal management agencies and collaborating research institutions to discuss cutting edge research on at-risk species, and effects of invasive species, that is currently going taking place at these properties across the United States. Emphasis will be placed on applying these research results to active management programs.
Organizer:	Harold Balbach, US Army ERDC
Co-organizer:	Scott Roberts, Mississippi State University
Moderator:	Harold Balbach, US Army ERDC
8:00 AM	OOS 10-1		Coordinating management and conservation of Gopher Tortoises on lands managed by multiple Federal agencies Richard A. Seigel, Towson University, Rebecca Bolt, Dynamac Corporation
8:20 AM	OOS 10-2		Using population models to guide management of the San Cemente Sage sparrow Brian Hudgens, Institute for Wildlife Studies
8:40 AM	OOS 10-3		Habitat characteristics of areas inhabited by gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) at camp shelby training site: Implications for management and future studies Jeanne Jones, Mississippi State University, Katherine Edwards, Mississippi State University, David L. Evans, Mississippi State University, Scott Roberts, Mississippi State University, Tyler Harris, Mississippi State University
9:00 AM	OOS 10-4		Experimental manipulation of habitat to increase sexual reproduction of the federally endangered michaux's sumac (Rhus michauxii) at Fort Pickett, Virginia Verl R. Emrick, Virginia Tech, Amy O. Haynes, Fort Pickett
9:20 AM	OOS 10-5		Reassessing the threat of brown-headed cowbird parisitism to Fort Hood's population of the endangered black-capped vireo using experimental and modeling approaches Richard Kostecke, The Nature Conservancy, D. A. Cimprich, The Nature Conservancy, S. G. Summers, The Nature Conservancy
9:40 AM			Break
9:50 AM	OOS 10-6		Detecting southeastern pine decline in Red-cockaded Woodpecker habitat using hyperspectral remote sensing: A case study from Fort Benning, GA Maria Santos, Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing, Susan Ustin, Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing
10:10 AM	OOS 10-7		Remote sensing of habitat characteristics for at-risk species on military installations in the Southeast H. Alexis Londo, Mississippi State University, David L. Evans, Mississippi State University, Scott A. Tweddale, US Army Corps of Engineers, Joelle M. Carney, Mississippi State University, Scott Roberts, Mississippi State University, Peter V. Campbell, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
10:30 AM	OOS 10-8		Using multi-criteria decision analysis to guide integrative, non-native, invasive plant, management planning on dod installations Matthew G. Hohmann, US Army Corps of Engineers, ERDC - CERL, Peter J. Frank, Invasive Species Management, Inc.
10:50 AM	OOS 10-9		Protected South Korean frogs: Survey results and ecosystem management implications at Kunsan US Air Force Base, South Korea Andy Herb, AlpineEco
11:10 AM	OOS 10-10		A behavioral approach to mapping connectivity for rare butterflies on military installations Daniel C. Kuefler, University of Guelph, Brian Hudgens, Institute for Wildlife Studies, Nick M. Haddad, North Carolina State University, William F. Morris, Duke University, Nicole Thurgate, North Carolina State University

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