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Wednesday, September 21

Session One

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Getting Techy With It - Session One

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The eYield forest management model: Capabilities and assessment of effectiveness
Speaker: Pete Bettinger, University of Georgia
Description: This presentation describes the eYield model, and provides examples of model simulations. Further, results from surveys designed to assess pre- and post-training user knowledge and satisfaction are presented.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1

ESA CEU: 0.125

Artificial Intelligence for Forest and Wildfire Monitoring
Speaker: David Marvin, Salo Sciences Inc.
Description: AI-derived forest data can provide valuable information about stand attributes, wildfire risk, and forest carbon for management and ongoing monitoring. Partners Salo Sciences and Upstream Tech will share how teams are using high resolution remote sensing and AI to comprehensively track ecosystem change at a low cost over large areas. 
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1

ESA CEU: 0.125

Utilizing Next Generation Drones and Data in Forestry
Speaker: Ben Lindner, Alynix, LLC
Description: Next generation drones have really opened up the possibilities of utilizing technologies that were once too costly or too difficult to process. Sensor technologies like LiDAR, thermal, and hi-resolution RGB for photogrammetry are now much more cost effective and easier to use.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1

ESA CEU: 0.125

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Working Across the Mosaic - Session One

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Integrating Environmental Justice into the Forest Service Climate Adaptation Plan
Speaker: Mark Adams, USDA Forest Service
Description: This presentation provides examples of how the Forest Service Office of Sustainability and Climate is responding to Executive Order 14008, the Justice40 Initiative, and the whole-of-government approach to environmental justice. Activities include launching a webinar series and creating a cross-Deputy team tasked with developing the new Climate Adaptation Plan. 
SAF CFE:
0.5 Category 1

ESA CEU: 0.125

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Hardwoods Across the Mosaic

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Stability of northern hardwood communities by topographic position challenges assumptions about selection regeneration systems
Speaker: Michael Premer, Rayonier, Inc.
Description: The contemporary Interpretation of silvicultural regimes appears to be invalidated by a lack of objective site measurements.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1

ESA CEU: 0.125

The 'Other' Hardwood: Hickories in the Central Hardwood Region
Speaker: Lauren Pile Knapp, USDA Forest Service , Northern Research Station
Description: This work provides a synthetic view of hickories in the Central Hardwood Region, including their growth, physiology, and successional dynamics using datasets from individuals to populations and sources that span long-term and contemporary trends. 
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1

ESA CEU: 0.125

Changes in forest structure and composition over a century of urbanization and development: Thain Family Forest, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY
Speaker: Eliot Nagele, The New York Botanical Garden
Description: The 50-acre Thain Family Forest in NYC contains one of the oldest urban forest inventory datasets in the US. Our presentation highlights findings from our current study assessing the composition and structure of this forest over a century of growth and development.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1

ESA CEU: 0.125

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Into the Urban Communities

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Community Engagement through Urban Food Forestry
Speaker: Jaq Payne, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Description: Urban food forestry (UFF) is the ancient practice of modeling urban agriculture after the forest structure. This presentation covers the importance of UFF, impacts on the environment and community resilience, and what to consider when developing community support for UFF based on preliminary research within a public housing community redevelopment. 
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1

ESA CEU: 0.125

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Science Flashes - Session One

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Investigating Biodiversity and Carbon Storage in a Fragmented Hardwood Forest in Southern Minnesota
Speaker:
Nick Partington, University of Minnesota
Description: We investigated how stand age and invasive earthworms affect biodiversity and carbon storage in a fragmented southern Minnesota forest. With additional data from summer 2022, we anticipate greater diversity in old-growth stands and those without earthworms, and a significant effect on carbon storage. Results can help preserve important ecosystem services.

Urban Forests as Sources for Invasive Tree Species
Speaker: Mark Ambrose, North Carolina State University
Description: Street tree inventory, Urban Forest Inventory & Analysis (FIA) and traditional FIA data were used to compare relative abundance and relative dominance of invasive species in street tree, urban forest, and peri-urban forest populations in and around Austin and Houston, TX and Kansas City, Springfield, and St. Louis, MO.

Long-term Assessment of Sugar Maple Dieback in the Upper Great Lakes
Speaker: 
Mattison Brady, Michigan Technological University
Description: From sweet syrup to hard lumber, the sugar maple is a heavy-hitter in our Northern Hardwoods. Research in the Upper Great Lakes, however, has linked the gardener’s beloved ally, the earthworm, to the sugar maple’s observed decline. New study findings explore this relationship and highlight potential management implications.

SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1 CFE for the above three presentations, all must be viewed to receive CFE

ESA CEU: 0.125


Regeneration Dynamics after Prescribed Fire and Femelschlag Harvests in Oak-Hickory Forests of Southern Indiana
Speaker: Molly Barrett, Purdue University
Description: Early results of a long term research study designed to give oaks a competitive advantage. Oaks are an essential ecosystem component and white oaks are the second most commercially valuable tree in the region. The study uses a femelschlag harvest design and prescribed burns to create ideal conditions for oaks.

Predicting Burn Severity: Modeling Fire Effects in Intermountain West Forests, Utah, USA
Speaker: 
Kipling Klimas, Utah State University
Description: 
This projects is focused on modeling and predicting the ecological impact of wildland fires in forests. We developed statistical models to predict and describe a continuous measure of burn severity in Utah. Results will inform fuel treatment planning in western forests.

Spatial Patterns of Stand Structure and Canopy Disturbance in a Fire-maintained Pinus palustris Woodland
Speaker: David Phillips, University of Alabama
Description: We characterized spatial patterns in a 1-ha Pinus palustris woodland using global point pattern analysis and a local spatial classification method. Pinus palustris saplings exhibited no significant spatial relationship with canopy Pinus palustris, but were clustered around Quercus trees. Half of the trees occurred in clumps of ≥ 10 trees.

SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1 CFE for the above three presentations, all must be viewed to receive CFE

ESA CEU: 0.125

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Global Forest Health: Connecting Plants & People - Part One

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Forest Pest Biodiversity in the Anthropocene, Forest Health as a Social Dilemma, and Social-Ecological Resilience
Speaker: Geoffrey Williams, USDA Forest Service International Programs
Description: Invasive insects and pathogens devastate forest ecosystems along with climate change; Forest health is a global public good but due to conflicts of interest, the forest health crisis is a social dilemma; Collective action will depend on exchange of pest biodiversity and biogeography data to assess risk 

Opportunities for Reducing Forest Pest Risks Within the International Supply Chain
Speaker: Leigh Greenwood, The Nature Conservancy
Description: Invasive forest insects and diseases threaten the health of their host trees and the function of forested ecosystems all across the world. This presentation will discuss new policy and research projects addressing the international supply chain as a high risk pathway for invasive forest pests. 

P4: The Pine Pandemic Preparedness Plan to Protect Southern Pine Resources
Speaker: Erik Schilling
Description: We will provide an overview of the Pine Pandemic preparedness Plan (P4) for the southern pines to be proactive in terms of high-impact invasive species detection and management for their long-term resilience.

Facilitating community-led collective action to manage invasive plants: Lessons learned from family forest landowners
Speaker: Mysha Clarke, University of Florida, School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatic Sciences
Description: Invasive plant management can be ineffective without collective effort. The purpose of this presentation is to highlight the role of community-led collective action on invasive plant management on family forests lands. Building perceived competence, facilitating neighbor interactions, and strengthening shared concerns may facilitate community-led collective action to manage invasive plants. 

FAO Regional Forest Invasive Species Networks & Biosecurity
Speaker: Bruce Moltzan, USDA Forest Service
Description: FAO established four forest invasive species networks: APFISN (Asia-Pacific), FISNA (Africa) NENPHIS (Near East), REUFIS (Europe & Central Asia). Objectives are to raise awareness, share information, facilitate access, build capacity and regional cooperation and collaboration. A global forest biosecurity framework is being developed under a OneHealth approach through among-network collaboration.

SAF CFE: 1.5 Category 1 Total

ESA CEU: 0.375

Session Two

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Timber Supply

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Timber Supply Availability to a Potential Forest Industry in Arkansas: A Case Study from Magnolia City, Arkansas
Speaker: Sagar Godar Chhetri, University of Arkansas At Monticello
Description: A majority of forestlands are naturally regenerated in the study area. Pine is the dominant forest type. Net timber growth exceeds harvest by more than 50% annually. Forest growing stock is increasing. 
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1

ESA CEU: 0.125

Intensive Silviculture Impacts on Timber Supply from an Industrial Forest Landscape in Alberta
Speaker: Brad Pinno, University of Alberta
Description: There is a risk of conifer timber supply reductions on public forest lands in many areas of Alberta, Canada. Here we demonstrate the potential for intensive silviculture techniques, in particular density management in plantation forests, as an option to sustainably increase wood production at both the stand and landscape scale.
SAF CFE: 
0.5 Category 1

ESA CEU: 0.125

Opportunities, Constraints, and Attitudes of Forest Stakeholders in Harvesting and Supplying Woody Biomass in Southeastern US
Speaker: Manisha Parajuli, Auburn University
Description: Woody biomass can be utilized as a feedstock for bioenergy. However, the harvest and transport of woody biomass remain a challenge to the overall economics of biomass supply chains. This research aims to gain insight into the current and future state of the woody biomass market in the southeastern US.
SAF CFE: 
0.5 Category 1

ESA CEU: 0.125

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Family Forest Focus - Session Two

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Changes in U.S. Family Forest Owners from 2006-2018
Speaker: Emma Sass, Family Forest Research Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Description: Family forest owners have owned a plurality of forestland in the U.S. for many decades. We use data from the 2006, 2013, and 2018 National Woodland Owner Survey to identify if and how this population is changing over time in their management decisions, attitudes, and demographics.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1

ESA CEU: 0.125

Private land transfer trends: Implications for new landowner outreach in an integrated landscape
Speaker: Tierney Bocsi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Description: Understanding the dynamics of private landownership is important for effective natural resources management and conservation. This research seeks to understand what types of lands are transferring and to whom with the goal of improving outreach, engagement, and support for new landowners in an era of increasing land transfer.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1

ESA CEU: 0.125

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Science Flashes - Session Two

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How Shady Is Too Shady? Relating Understory Light Availability, SDI, And Thresholds For Target Taxa
Speaker: Bernard Isaacson, New Jersey Forest Service
Description: Open canopy habitats are the loci for meaningful biodiversity in pine barrens. We sought to define 'open canopy' by determining upper limits of Stand Density Index for shade intolerant taxa. Management for desirable plants associated with these taxa should aim to keep stands below these thresholds or risk extirpation. 

Do Forest Health Issues in Oak Forests Accelerate Compositional Shifts to Non-oaks?
Speaker: Lance Vickers, University of Missouri
Description: Recruiting understory oaks into canopies is tedious in most cases and forest health effects may increase management uncertainty. We use FIA data to examine the influence of forest health events in oak forests and evaluate if oak understory demographics differ among plots with and without canopy affliction. 

Top Tips for Migrating from Esri's ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro
Speaker: Mark Books, Landmark Spatial Solutions, LLC
Description: It's been a good run for ArcMap. Like change that occurs in the forest, a change has come to Esri's premier desktop software as ArcGIS Pro is replacing ArcMap. Change is difficult. The tips presented will help make the migration from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro easier. 

SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1 CFE for the above three presentations, all must be viewed to receive CFE

ESA CEU: 0.125


Adventures In Beetle Busting: Alternative Methods for the Control of Asian Longhorned Beetle in South Carolina
Speaker: Abigail Ratcliff, North Carolina State University
Description: The final results of a study looking for alternative methods of eradicating Asian longhorned beetle- an invasive woodborer of 12 genera of hardwoods- from inaccessible bottomland sites in the South Carolina federal quarantine.

Forest Patch Ownership and Use across Baltimore City and County
Speaker: Miranda Mockrin, USDA Forest Service
Description: We map forests patches across the Baltimore region and investigate ownership and land use for each forest patch, determining who owns forest patches (government, residents, institutions) and how they are used, providing new insight into the complexity of forest conservation and management across an urban to rural gradient. 

Natural Area Forests in US Cities: Opportunities and Challenges
Speaker: Clara Pregitzer, Natural Areas Conservancy
Description: We used data sets on city parkland from across the US and surveyed practitioners to understand urban natural area forest extent and management. We find that urban natural areas are a dominant greenspace landcover, accounting for 68% of total city parkland across 96 of the most populous cities in the US in 2019. In the same cities over a five-year period (2014-2019), natural area parkland decreased by 4% (15,264 ha). At municipal scales, most cities are managing forested natural areas to conserve native species. Across the 108 organizations and 92 cities that responded to our online survey, many different management interventions are being used to steer forest structure and composition. These activities and their outcomes are being tracked nearly 70% of the time by the managing organizations, suggesting a strong data basis for adaptive management. However, challenges exist: 94% of organizations cite invasive species and limited funding as primary challenges. Lack of data and low public awareness of the value of natural areas are also considered primary challenges by over 70% of the organizations surveyed. As cities embark on efforts to expand and improve greenspace, protecting natural area parkland from development and addressing the challenges managers of these ecosystems face are two very important goals.

SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1 CFE for the above three presentations, all must be viewed to receive CFE

ESA CEU: 0.125

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Global Forest Health: Connecting Plants & People - Part Two

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Worldwide Border Interceptions Provide a Window into Human-mediated Global Insect Movement
Speaker: Rebecca Turner, Scion, NZ Forest Research Institute
Description: Risk of introduction of potential invasive insect species is mitigated in part by border biosecurity inspections. Analysis of border interception data from nine countries or regions worldwide between 1995-2019 revealed nearly two million insect interception events, of 8716 species.

Early Detection of New Pest Incursions to Cost-effectively Promote Forest Health
Speaker: Rebecca Epanchin-Niell, University of Maryland, College Park
Description: Early detection of forest pests promotes forest health by increasing control success. Using empirical analysis and bioeconomic modeling we explore sources of new pest detection, including by members of the public, and identify how to optimally allocate survey resources across species and sites to minimize long term invasion impacts. 

Identification of Potentially Invasive Asian Wood Borers Using Sentinel Gardens of Stressed American Trees
Speaker: Jiri Hulcr, University of Florida, Forest Resources and Conservation
Description: We report results of field trials in three different sentinel gardens of North American trees in China, seeking to identify wood borers demonstrating aggressive traits while still in their native range. Identifying potential pests and documenting their interactions with the host in sentinel gardens supports risk analysis. 

SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1 Total

ESA CEU: 0.125