Managing Late-Successional Attributes

in Managed Forests

September 16-17, 2008

Stratton, ME

 

Sponsored by Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences

and Northeastern States Research Cooperative

Workshop Agenda

September 16, 2008

 

0900-1030

Introduction to Workshop

Fundamental Concepts of LS Management (indoor classroom)

 

1030-11:15

Travel to field site

 

11:15-1400

Using ‘green tree' retention as a conservation tool in forestry.

-patch retention

-uniform retention

 

1400-1530

Applying long-rotation forestry to conserve LS forests – an example from ME Bureau of Parks and Lands

 

1530-1700

Challenges of restoration forestry – an example in a degraded northern hardwood stand

 

September 17, 2008

 

0800-1000

Practicum: Develop a harvest prescription for a late-successional stand

 

1000-1100

Managing riparian zones as a landscape strategy for conserving LS attributes

 

1100-1200

Management options for late-successional forest stands: finding win-win solutions for ecology and economy.

1230-1330

Managing landscape configuration for ecological value

 

1330-1600

Harvest plan presentations

 

1600-1700

Discussion

1700

Adjourn- Return to base

 

Details about workshop costs and lodging options are being finalized.  Please contact Andy Whitman at (207) 721-9040 ex. 2 for more information.

 

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