Agenda
March 11 - 13, 2024
Downtown Hilton - Lexington, KY
Tentative Agenda
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
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7:30 AM |
Travel |
Registration and Coffee Breakfast
Bar |
Coffee and Breakfast Bar |
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8:30 AM |
Welcome |
Adaptive Silviculture for Climate
Change (ASCC) Special Session (4 presentations and panel discussion; 15 min
break at 10am) |
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9:00 AM |
White Oak Special Session (15 min
break at 10am) |
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10:00 AM |
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10:15 AM |
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11:00 AM |
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12:00 PM |
Lunch Provided |
Lunch Provided |
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1:00 PM |
Breakout Technical Presentations |
Breakout Technical Presentations |
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2:00 PM |
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3:00-3:15 PM |
Break |
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3:15 PM |
Breakout Technical Presentations |
Ending at 3:30 p.m. |
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4:00 PM |
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5:00 PM |
Cocktail Hour and Registration |
Poster Session and Cash Bar |
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6:00 PM |
Dinner at Hilton |
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CHFC Technical Sessions - Day 1
| Time (PM ET) | Session 1 (Mine) | Session 2 (Management) |
| 1:00 | Barton | Flores |
| 1:30 | Drouet | Crouch |
| 2:00 | French | |
| 2:30 | Varias | Maddox |
| 3:00 | Break | Break |
| 3:30 | Sena | Schnake |
| 4:00 | Franklin | Schubert |
| 4:30 | Cox | Worthley |
| Day 1 - Session 1 | Speaker | Title |
| 1:00 | Barton | Evaluating the Influence of the Forestry Reclamation Approach on Water Quality and Hydrology |
| 1:30 | Drouet | The Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative (ARRI) |
| 2:00 | French | Methodologies and results of reforestation efforts on former coal surface mines in the Appalachian region of the eastern US1 |
| 2:30 | Varias | Avian Community Response to the Forestry Reclamation Approach on Legacy Surface Mines in the Central Appalachians |
| 3:00 | Break | |
| 3:30 | Sena | Restoring Forests on Minelands: Forest restoration outcomes of the Forestry Reclamation Approach |
| 4:00 | Franklin | The Forestry Reclamation Approach |
| 4:30 | Cox | Reintroduced elk in Kentucky are a vector of invasive plant species |
| Day 1 - Session 2 | Speaker | Title |
| 1:00 | Flores | Forest Management Expert Views on Key Characteristics and Management Challenges of Oak Ecosystems: Results of a Delphi Survey |
| 1:30 | Crouch | Restoring oak-pine mixedwoods: competition dynamics between planted shortleaf pine, natural hardwood regeneration, and overstory density |
| 2:00 | TBD | |
| 2:30 | Maddox | Seeding Native Woodland Understory Species Over a Gradient of Light in a Recently Thinned Oak Woodland to Restore Native Woodland Understory Composition |
| 3:00 | Break | |
| 3:30 | Schnake | Quercus and Carya regeneration and spatial patterning following group selection harvesting in a dry-mesic southern Appalachian upland hardwood forest |
| 4:00 | Schubert | Ten Year Growth Response of Cherrybark Oak (Quercus Pagoda Raf.) In Intermixed Sweetgum (Liquidambar Stiraciflua) Neighborhoods at Three Spacings In The Cumberland Mountains Of Morgan County, TN |
| 4:30 | Worthley | Early results from oak regeneration and recruitment trials in CT. |
CHFC Technical Sessions - Day 2
| Time (PM ET) | Session 1 (Health) | Session 2 (Timber) |
| 1:00 | Hackworth | Bumgardner |
| 1:30 | Swart | Dhungel |
| 2:00 | Hug/Suad | Gazel |
| 2:30 | Mehmood | Holloway |
| 3:00 | Break | Break |
| 3:30 | Pile | Fraser |
| 4:00 | Hausman | Stockstad |
| 4:30 | Closing Remarks |
| Day 2 - Session 1 | Speaker | Title |
| 1:00 | Hackworth | Ten-Year Response of Riparian-Associated Songbirds to Implementation of Streamside Management Zones in Watershed-Scale Harvests in the Appalachian Mountains |
| 1:30 | Swart | Fraxinus regeneration dynamics in late-successional Indiana forests following emerald ash borer invasion |
| 2:00 | Hug/Suad | Health Assessment of Red Oak (Quercus spp.) species across Greentree Reservoirs in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain of Arkansas |
| 2:30 | Mehmood | Woodland Owner Opinions on Forest Management and Invasive Species Control in Southeast Ohio |
| 3:00 | Break | |
| 3:30 | Pile | Controlling sericea lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata) populations across prairie reconstructions requires sustained management |
| 4:00 | Hausman | Preparing Cleveland Metroparks Forest for Climate Change |
| 4:30 | Closing |
| Day 2 - Session 2 | Speaker | Title |
| 1:00 | Bumgardner | Hardwood Industry Update and Market Directions |
| 1:30 | Dhungel | Management, Markets, and Mesophication: An Empirical Exploration of Oak Forests |
| 2:00 | Gazel | Economic Contribution of the West Virginia’s Forest Products Industry: Post-Covid 19 Pandemic |
| 2:30 | Holloway | Crop Tree Release Education and Research in Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains |
| 3:00 | Break | |
| 3:30 | Fraser | Long term stand dynamics and current three-dimensional structural characteristics of old growth and managed forests in southern Illinois |
| 4:00 | Stockstad | Climate-ready woodlands: Rewilding your backyard woods |
| 4:30 | Closing |
