Session: Poster Session I (2002 SAF National Convention Theme: Forests at Work)

P15A.1

Intergrating ethical and social values with nontimber forest product development in alaska

Mitchell J Michaud, USDA, Kenai, AK; and B. Wheeler

P15A.2

Kamran K. Abdollahi, Urban Forestry Program, SU Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Baton Rouge, LA; and D. Collins, Z. H. Ning, and A. V. Appeaning

P15A.3

PRESERVATION OF COASTAL LIVE OAKS

P15A.4

Precision Directional Felling for Ecologically Sound Harvesting

Rachel C. Wood, Forest Stewards Guild, Asheville, NC

P15A.5

Precise Directional Felling Techniques for Ecologically Sound Harvesting

P15A.6

Precise Directional Felling Techniques for Ecologically Sound Harvesting

Steven A. Harrington, Forest Stewards Guild, Santa Fe, NC

P15A.7

Oak regeneration after six silvicultural treatments in the Ridge and Valley Region of Virginia

Jean H. Lorber, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA; and T. R. Fox

P15A.8

Natural Resource Professionals and Distance Education Technology: Perceptions and Cost Savings

Robert E. Bardon, Department of Forestry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

P15A.9

Logging roads and aquatic habitat protection in the California redwoods

David Tomberlin, National Marine Fisheries Service, Santa Cruz, CA; and W. Baxter and R. Ziemer

P15A.10

Land Access for Growing and Foraging Non-Timber Products

Brigitte Parsons, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA; and A. L. Hammett and M. Mortimer

P15A.11

Investigating the fire history and successional dynamics in shortleaf pine-mixed oak forests at La-Rue Pine Hills Research Natural Area, southern Illinois

M. Elizabeth Davis, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL; and C. M. Ruffner

P15A.12

Production and economics of silvopastoral systems with native pecan

Adrian Ares, USDA/ARS, Booneville, AR; and W. Reid and D. K. Brauer

P15A.13

VB Merch-LOB: A Timber Stand Merchandizer and Growth & Yield Model for the 21st Century

Rodney Busby, USDA Forest Service, New Orleans, LA; and S. J. Chang

P15A.14

Urban Forest Ecosystem Analysis for Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Kamran K. Abdollahi, Urban Forestry Program, SU Agricultural Research and Extension, Baton Rouge, LA., BATON ROUGE, LA; and F. Namwamba, Z. H. Ning, A. V. Appeaning, and D. Collins

P15A.15

Training Our Future Foresters: The State of Communications Education in Current SAF Baccalaureate Programs

Pat S Stephens Williams, University of Arkansas - Monticello, Monticello, AR

P15A.16

The Clemson Land-Use Project, A Jewel of the "New Deal"

S. Knight Cox Jr., Clemson University, Clemson, SC

P15A.17

Rippping Plains Cottonwood for Regeneration in Southeastern Montana

Robert Logar, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Bozeman, MT

P15A.18

Testing tree indicator species for classifying site productivity in southern Appalachian forest types

William Henry McNab, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, NC; and D. L. Loftis and F. T. Lloyd

P15A.19

Soil quality as an indicator of forest health: An overview and initial results from the U.S. Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis soil indicator program

Katherine P. O'Neill, USDA Forest Service, St. Paul, MN; and M. C. Amacher, C. J. Palmer, B. L. Conkling, and G. C. Liknes

P15A.20

Soil quality as an indicator of forest health: An overview and initial results from the U.S. Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) soil indicator program

P15A.21

Sampling the tree resources of the Cimarron National Grassland: the main channel and the north fork

Thomas B. Lynch, Department of Forestry, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; and R. F. Wittwer

P15A.22

Spatial analysis of voluntary conservation in North Carolina's Natural Heritage Program

Kirsten M. Cassingham, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and E. O. Sills, S. Pattanayak, and C. Mansfield

P15A.23

Impacts of white-tailed deer on acorns and oak regeneration in southern Ohio

David K. Apsley, Ohio State University Extension, Jackson, OH

P15A.24

Analysis of Jack Pine Budworm (Choristoneura pinus pinus Free.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) Impact in Northern Michigan

Andrew T. Klein, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI; and D. G. McCullough and L. A. Leefers

P15A.25

Determining wildland/urban interface problems and solutions in White County, Georgia

M. Boyd Edwards, U S Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens, GA; and T. S. Price

P15A.25

Developing a Willow Biomass Crop System in the United States

Lawrence P. Abrahamson, SUNY- College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, NY; and E. H. White

P15A.27

Demonstration forests: their value to natural resource education

Jeremy Morris, Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, AL; and M. Dubois

P15A.28

Data availability assessment of sustainability indicators by the USDA Forest Service Northeastern Area and the Northeastern Forest Resource Planners Association

Sherri Wormstead, USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry, Durham, NH; and C. Carpenter

P15A.29

Dalbergia melanoxylon: an important tree species of the African forest savanna

Michael S Sterner, Interforest, LLC, New Haven, CT

P15A.30

Comparison of State Tax Regulations Affecting Short-Rotation Woody Crops

Donald L Grebner, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and R. L. Busby

P15A.31

Community Forest Management in the Senegal River Valley

Michael S Sterner, Interforest, LLC, New Haven, CT

P15A.32

BUTTERNUT THE OTHER WALNUT, THIS �WHITE MEAT� IS ON THE EDGE

Marty Calvert, Missouri Department of Conservation, Lebanon, MO

P15A.33

Assessing long-term changes in Arizona forests and woodlands using historical data

Gerald J. Gottfried, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Phoenix, AZ; and P. F. Ffolliott and M. B. Baker Jr.

P15A.34

Analysis of Jack Pine Budworm (Choristoneura pinus pinus Free.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) Impact in Northern Michigan

P15A.35

Enhancing workforce diversity in forestry: a model of university-employer partnership

William E. Stone, Center for Forestry and Ecology, Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL; and G. F. Brown Jr., R. Fraser, and L. Wyche

P15A.36

Hispanic labor in North Carolina's Christmas tree industry: employer and laborer perspectives

James V Hamilton Jr., North Carolina State University Department of Forestry, Raleigh, NC

P15A.37

Healthy streams through bringing people together: facilitating collective action through the creation & mobilization of human & social capital

Laura Van Riper, National Riparian Service Team (BLM & USFS S.C.E.P.), Missoula, MT

P15A.38

Growth Response of Pitch x Loblolly Pine Hybrids Following Crown Touching Release

Thomas R. Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA; and R. E. Kreh

P15A.39

From Forestry Student to Forestry Professional: A Baseline of Communications in SAF Accredited Baccalaureate Programs

Pat Stephens Williams, University of Arkansas - Monticello, Monticello, AR

P15A.40

Factors Affecting the Utilization of Overabundant, Low Value Forest Products of Massachusetts: Building A Bridge To Success

Robert Rizzo, Mount Wachusett Community College, Gardner, MA

P15A.41

Forests work for education.

Joan M. Caldwell, Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR; and K. T. Holleran and W. M. Shriner, PhD

P15A.42

Forest Management for Succession

Cheryl J Adams, UPM-Kymmene - Blandin Paper Company, Grand Rapids, MN

P15A.43

Firewise Communities

P15A.44

Firewise Communities

James Smalley, National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA; and N. Porter

P15A.45

Forests at work are communities that work: economic resiliency as a function of forest and human resource flows

Eric J. Greenfield, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY; and D. V. A. Luzadis

Poster Session 15A: Poster Session I