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Managing Oak in the Northern Forest

20-21 October 2009
Ramada Inn, Grayling, Michigan
SAF CFE: 9.0 credits, category 1

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Speaker Biographies

20 October
Conference Schedule
 
Poster Presentations [click here]
    Interspecific Hyridization in Oaks & Climate Change
           - Oliver Gailing, MTU
   Tree-ring Analyses of Red Oak Under Shelterwood Management and Interactions with Climate
          - Sophan Chhin andJohn Willis

8:00
  


Registration
  
9:00

Introduction, opening remarks from the State Chair
   - Dr. Larry Leefers, MSAF 2009 Chair
   
9:10
Keynote Address-northern oak ecosystems: a natural history
   - Dr. Don Dickmann, Professor Emeritus, Forestry, Michigan State University
     PowerPoint PDF (13.2 mb)
   


10:40
  


Break
 
11:00
Assessing oak regeneration opportunities
   - Dr. Mike Walters, Associate Professor, Forestry, Michigan State University
     PowerPoint PDF (1.4 mb)
  

12:00
  
 
Lunch
    
1:00

Dry (xeric) site oak management
   - Matt Sands, Silviculturist, USDA Forest Service, Huron-Manistee National Forest
     PowerPoint PDF (8.0 mb)        

2:00


Break
  
2:20

Oak regeneration inoak and pine stands on dry-mesic sites: 19-year results
   - Dr. Terry Sharik, Professor, Utah State University
     PowerPoint PDF (3.5 mb)   
  
3:20

Panel - Managing oak on dry-mesic sites. Moderated panel discussion on management and regeneration.
   - Jason Hartman, moderator, Forester, Michigan DNR
   - Jim Bielecki, Silviculturalist, Michigan DNR
   - Todd Johnson, Forester, Weyerhaeuser
   - Mark Parkinson, Eco-Land Management
   - Matt Sands, Huron-Manistee National Forest
   - Dr. Terry Sharik, Professor, Utah State Universit
   - Dr. David Buckley, University of Tennessee 
     PowerPoint PDF (4.6 mb) 
  
   

4:30
    


Chapter Meetings
 
5:00
   

Social Hour, Dinner, Awards, and Raffle
Evening Program: An History of Michigan's Early Fur Trade, 1600-1760
   - Wendell Hoover, Historian
 
21 October
Conference Schedule

7:30
  
Light breakfast buffet
    
8:00

Oak markets
   - Anthony Weatherspoon, Michigan DNR
     PowerPoint PDF (0.2 mb) 
 
8:45

Oak and regeneration on mesic northern hardwood sites
   - Megan Matonis, Forestry, Michigan State University
     PowerPoint PDF (2.8 mb) 
 

9:45
  
Break
    
10:15

Panel - Perspectives on managing oak on mesic northern hardwood sites. Moderated panel discussion on management and regeneration.
   - Jason Stephens, moderator
   - Jim Bielecki, Silviculturalist, Michigan DNR
   - Keith Kintigh, Wildlife Ecologist, Michigan DNR
   - Dr. Mike Walters, Associate Professor, Forestry, Michigan State University
   - Mark Korkko, Property Manager, Molpus Timberlands
   - Terry Manty, Forester, Grossman Forestry
     PowerPoint PDF (2.4 mb) 
  

   
    
11:30
Oak wilt update
   - Dr. Robert Heyd, Forest Health Specialist, Michigan DNR
     PowerPoint PDF (2.5 mb) 
11:45
Oak wilt control efforts in the U.P.
   - Bill Cook, Forester, Michigan State University Extension
     PowerPoint PDF (3.4 mb) 
  

 

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