**Concurrent Session 1 -- AM**

**Wednesday, February 28, 2007**

**Location: Athena A-B-C**

**Topic: Growth & Yield**

**Moderator: Tom Lynch**

8:00 Financial rates of return on thinned & unthinned stands, using
large-scale forest inventory data in Mississippi & Arkansas, 1977-1995

**A.J. Hartsell**\*, USDA-FS, Knoxville, TN

8:30 Impact of initial spacing on yield per acre & wood quality of
unthinned loblolly pine at age 20

> **A. Clark, III\*,** USDA-FS, Athens, GA, **R.F. Daniels**, Univ. of
> GA, Athens, GA

9:00 The densest loblolly pine stand

**B. Zeide** & **J. Stephens**\*, Univ. of AR, Monticello, AR

9:30 Pine seed tree growth & yield on the Crossett Experimental Forest

**D.C. Bragg\***, USDA-FS, Monticello, AR

10:00-10:30 BREAK

10:30 Polymorphic self-referencing site index equations for loblolly &
slash pine plantations in east Texas

**D.W. Coble\***, SFASU, Nacogdoches, TX & **Y.J. Lee**, Kongju National
Univ., Chungnam, Korea

11:00 Influence of top DOB assumptions on the magnitude of yield bias in
growth & yield models

**G.K. Xydias\***, retired silviculturist

11:30-1:00 LUNCHEON (Provided)

> Athena Ballroom

**Concurrent Session 2 -- AM**

**Wednesday, February 28, 2007**

**Location: Athena H-I-J**

**Topic: Hdwds: Intermediate Treatments**

**Moderator: Callie Schweitzer**

8:00 Relative productivity of mixed-species hardwoods on MeadWestvaco
landtypes in southeastern West Virginia

**D.W. McGill**\*, West VA Univ., **P. Dunham, J. Engle, V. Ford,**
MeadWestvaco, Summerville, SC, **J.R. Brooks, S. Grushecky**, West VA
Univ., Morgantown, WV, **J. Pomp**, West VA Univ., Morgantown, WV

8:30 Forest landtype association & forest cover classifications for
silvicultural management of the hardwood forest at the mid-Cumberland
Plateau of northeastern Alabama

**S. Parajuli\*, Y. Wang, W. Tadesse, D. Lemke**, AL A&M Univ., Normal,
AL, **C.J. Schweitzer, G.W. Smalley**, USDA-FS, Normal, AL

9:00 Stand quality management of a water oak plantation in Louisiana:
preliminary results following thinning

**J.S. Meadows\*, D.A. Skojac, Jr.**, USDA-FS, Stoneville, MS

9:30 Morphological & physiological responses of hardwood crop trees to
plantation thinning

**M. Gauthier\*, D.F. Jacobs**, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

10:00-10:30 BREAK

10:30 Financial maturity cutting: an alternative harvesting method in
Appalachian hardwood forests

**E. Heitzman\***, West VA Univ., Morgantown, WV, **M.A. Fajvan, T.
Schuler**, USDA-FS, Morgantown & Parsons, WV

11:00 The Sylview graphical interface to the Sylvan Stand Structure
Model with examples from southern bottomland hardwood forests

**D.R. Larsen, I.R. Scott**\*, Univ. of MO-Columbia, Columbia, MO

11:30-1:00 LUNCHEON (Provided)

> Athena Ballroom

**Concurrent Session 3 -- AM**

**Wednesday, February 28, 2007**

**Location: Olympia**

**Topic: Wildlife**

**Moderator: Nancy Herbert**

8:00 Cerulean Warbler response to silvicultural manipulations on managed
forestland in Desha Co., AR, 3^rd^ year results

**P.B. Hamel\*,** USDA-FS, Stoneville, MS, **M. Staten, R. Wishard**,
Anderson-Tully, Lake Village, AR

8:30 Abundance & population structure of eastern worm snakes,
*Carphophis amoenus*, on forest stands with various levels of overstory
tree retention

**Z. Felix\*, Y. Wang**, AL A&M Univ., Normal, AL, **C.J. Schweitzer**,
USDA-FS, Normal, AL

9:00 The role of Eastern Redback Salamanders (*Plethodon cinereus*) on
leaf litter decomposition & nutrient cycling in southern Appalachian
hardwood forests

**E.B. Sucre\*, J.A. Homyack, T.R. Fox**, VPISU, Blacksburg, VA

9:30 Amphibian & reptile habitat relationships in forest stands
scheduled for thinning & prescribed burning: pre-treatment results

**W.B. Sutton\*, Y. Wang**, AL A&M Univ., Normal, AL, **C.J.
Schweitzer**, USDA-FS, Normal, AL

10:00-10:30 BREAK

10:30 Habitat use of two songbird species in pine-hardwood forests
treated with prescribed burning & thinning in Bankhead National Forest,
AL: 1^st^ year results

**J. Wick\*, Y. Wang**, AL A&M Univ., Normal, AL

11:00 Snag recruitment & retention in a bottomland hardwood forest
following partial harvesting: 11^th^ year results

**B.R. Lockhart\*,** USDA-FS, Stoneville, MS, **P.A. Tappe**, Univ. of
AR, Monticello, AR

11:30-1:00 LUNCHEON (Provided)

> Athena Ballroom

**Concurrent Session 4 -- AM**

**Wednesday, February 28, 2007**

**Location: Parthenon**

**Topic: Forest Health/Fire**

**Moderator: Tom Waldrop**

8:00 Vegetation response to post-tornado salvage logging in a southern
Illinois bottomland hardwood forest

**J.L. Nelson\*, J.W. Groninger, C.M. Ruffner**, SIU, Carbondale, IL

8:30 The effects of Hurricane Rita on a 53-year-old loblolly pine
spacing & thinning study at Merryville, LA

**J.C.G. Goelz\*,** USDA-FS, Pineville, LA

9:00 Conceptual framework for improved wind-related forest threat
assessment in the southeastern United States

**S.L. Goodrick\*, J.A. Stanturf**, USDA-FS, Athens, GA

9:30 Site variables & stand factors associated with severe oak decline
in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas

**L. Freeman\*, E. Heitzman**, WV Univ., Morgantown, WV

10:00-10:30 BREAK

10:30 Southern Pine Beetle infestation probability mapping using weights
of evidence analysis

**J.B. Grogan\*, D.L. Kulhavy, J.C. Kroll**, SFASU, Nacogdoches, TX

11:00 Effects of methyl jasmonate on the resistance of loblolly pine to
Southern Pine Beetle

**D.D. Harrison\*,** Southern Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, **K.D. Klepzig**,
USDA-FS, Pineville, LA, **Y. Qi**, Southern Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

11:30-1:00 LUNCHEON (Provided)

> Athena Ballroom