RECENT ACTIVITIES & PUBLICATIONS:
The Silviculture Working Group (SWG) has conducted meetings annually. Activities of the group over the last two years have focused on building our membership and defining our terms of reference and mission. Activities over the next four years will focus on publicizing the work of the NAFC SWG to increase the accessibility of knowledge, facilitate its input into the policy process and to highlight the potential of silviculture to increase the value of forest commodities now and in the future. |
For a copy of Useful Trees of the Tropical Region of North America, please contact:
International Institute of Tropical Forestry US Forest Service - IITF
ATTN: Gisel Reyes, Librarian
P.O. Box 2500
San Juan, Puerto Rico
00928-5000
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- 2006 - 2008: Activities for the next biennium will focus on building the profile of the Silviculture Working Group and the NAFC. This will be done through organizing a Workshop in Mexico to publicize the work of the WG and highlight the potential of silviculture to increase the value of forest commodities now and in the future. In addition we plan to update the Web Site to include pertinent information on the issues and challenges facing silviculture in North America both now and in the future.
We will also explore the possibility of starting an international project linking long term silviculture research sites in Canada , the USA and Mexico to increase the accessibility of knowledge and facilitate its input into the policy process.
- 2005 - 2006: Our mission statement was revised to make it more responsive to recent trends in international forestry: To develop and disseminate knowledge and technology on silviculture strategies and practices for North American Forests to improve the quality of human life.
With the addition of three new members, a scoping session was undertaken to explore possible future collaborative projects and deliverables. The following opportunities were identified and work is in progress:
- Workshop on the Evolution of Mexican silviculture and future directions (2007/08)
- Web site update (2006-2008)
- Statement of SWG common issues and scope (2006-2007)
- Assist in planning for the 2006-07 joint meeting of the Genetics and Silviculture Working groups
- 2004-2005: Terms of reference of the group were expanded from tropical silviculture alone to include temperate forest silviculture to foster Canadian and US participation in the group.
With the addition of new members and the election of a new Chair, a scoping session was undertaken to explore possible future collaborative projects and deliverables and to identify opportunities. The following tasks were completed:
- Presented results of last two meetings for Board of Alternates (BOA) Meeting in Veracruz next week
- Prepared an outline for a manuscript entitled “ Synthesis of silvicultural issues in the sustainable management of mountain forests in Canada , Mexico and USA .”
- Sought new members for the Silviculture Working Group to strengthen representation on issues in temperate forest silviculture.
- Assisted in planning for the 2005-06 joint meeting of the Genetics and Silviculture Working groups
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MINUTES:
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PROCEEDINGS:
I.
Proceedings from the Second International Workshop:
"The Utilization of Forests and Their Relation
to the Environment" (Veracruz, Mexico - December
2, 1997)
[These
are available in Spanish. NOTE: To reduce file space,
the entire proceedings are available as five separate
files. A session does not necessarily correspond to
a file.]
- Introduction
- Session
1: Agroforestry and multiple use forest species
- Session
2: Management of secondary vegetation
- Session
3: Rehabilitation of forest lands
- Session
4: Management of fire
- Session
5: Final Session
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II.
The 16th North American Forest Biology Workshop & the
Western Forest Genetics Association 2000 Conference
(Merida, Mexico - July, 2000).
PowerPoint presentations, posters, and abstracts
from the workshop are now available. (Many of the files
are large and may take long to download. If you are
experiencing difficulty, please contact
us.)
1. Workshop
Poster (481KB)
2. Workshop
Abstract (741 KB)
3. Workshop
Agenda (45KB)
4. Posters:
a) POTENTIAL
IMPACT OF CLIMATIC CHANGE ON GROWTH AND WOOD QUALITY
IN WHITE SPRUCE (1 MB) Christophe Andalo,Jean
Beaulieu & Jean Bousquet
b) HIGH
LEVELS OF GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION AMONG POPULATIONS
OF MEXICAN CONIFERS (802 KB) F.
Thomas Ledig, Jesús Vargas Hernández, and Basilio Bermejo
Velázquez
c) FIELD RESULTS OF WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST RESISTANCE
IN SUGAR PINES AND WESTERN WHITE PINE SEEDLINGS (2 MB) Andrew
D. Bower and Richard
A. Sniezko
5. Presentations:
a) NORMS
OF REACTION OF STABLE AND UNSTABLE DOUGLAS-FIR GENOTYPES
ACROSS TEMPERATURE AND MOISTURE REGIMES: IMPLICATIONS
FOR BREEDING AND CLIMATE CHANGE (187 KB) Sally
N. Aitken and Tongli Wang
b) INTERSPECIFIC
DIFFERENCES IN RATES OF BASE CATION IMMOBILIZATION
IN THE STEM OF SOME HARDWOODS OF EASTERN CANADA
ARE LARGELY AGE- OR SIZE- DEPENDENT (94 KB)
Patricia Boucher and Benoît
Côté
c) MANAGEMENT
IMPLICATIONS OF WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST INFECTION
AND MORTALITY THROUGH AGE 15 IN SUGAR PINE IN SOUTHWESTERN
OREGON ( 109KB) Richard
A. Sniezko, Andrew
D. Bower and Ellen
M. Goheen
d) TROPICAL
N-FIXING TREES, VIRUS RESISTANCE, AND THE COLLAPSE
OF MAIZE-BASED CIVILIZATIONS (196 KB) James
L. Brewbaker
e) GROWTH
EFFICIENCIES OF DIVERSE Pinus taeda FAMILIES
AS AFFECTED BY GENETICS OF THE ROOT SYSTEM (192
KB) James
E. Grissom and Steven E. McKeand - For details
on the poster, please contact the author.
f) PRODUCCIÓN DE SEMILLAS DEL GÉNERO PINUS EN HUERTOS
Y RODALES SEMILLEROS DE SMURFIT CARTÓN DE COLOMBIA
(18 MB) N.
Isaza, W.
S. Dvorak & J.
López Upton - Please contact authors for presentation.
g) FINE ROOT GROWTH IN LOBLOLLY PINE SUBJECTED TO
FERTILIZATION AND CO2 TREAMENTS (30 MB) Kim
H. Ludovici and Lance W. Kress - Please contact
author for this poster.
h) WATER
AND CARBON RELATIONS OF Pinus elliottii FLATWOODS
SUBJECTED TO SEVERE DROUGHT (1 MB) Timothy
A. Martin
i) RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN HYDRAULIC PATHWAY LENGTH AND FOLIAR d13C
IN LONGLEAF PINE (647 KB) Price
C. McLemore, III, Lisa
J. Samuelson, Greg
L. Somers
j) GENES,
CLIMATE, AND WOOD: A STORY OF LODGEPOLE PINE (195KB) Gerald
E. Rehfeldt
k) EFFECTS
OF FORESTRY PRACTICES, INCLUDING CLEARCUT HARVESTING
AND ALTERNATIVE VEGETATION MANAGEMENT TREATMENTS
ON FOREST MICROCLIMATE (586 KB) Phillip
E. Reynolds
l) GENECOLOGY
AND ADAPTATION OF DOUGLAS-FIR TO CLIMATE CHANGE (1 MB) Brad
St. Clair, Ken
Vance-Borland and Nancy
Mandel
m) INFLUENCE
OF INTENSIVE MANAGEMENT ON CANOPY TRANSPIRATION
IN LOBLOLLY PINE (304 KB) Thomas
Stokes, Lisa
Samuelson, Greg
Somers and Tom
Cooksey
n) El Compendio forestal: Un sistema de apoyo a la
toma de decision (2 MB) Jacques
Trencia
o) LEAF BIOCHEMICAL CHANGES INDUCED IN Populus trichocarpa BY ENHANCED UV-B RADIATION AND CONCOMITANT EFFECTS
ON HERBIVORY BY Chrysomela scripta (Colepoptera:
Chrysomelidae) [1 MB] Jeffrey
M. Warren and John
H. Bassman
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