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THE ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF ATLANTIC White-Cedar

Tentative Agenda

TUESDAY JUNE 6th 2006

8:00 Registration

8:30 Welcome address, Overview / Announcements

8:50 Pehr (Peter) Kalm and Environmental Change: Deforestation and Atlantic White-Cedar in the Mid-Eighteenth Century by Timothy E. Morgan,

9:10AM Developing Management and Restoration Strategies for Atlantic white- cedar Based on Regional Patterns of Genetic Variation by Kristin A. Mylecraine, George L. Zimmermann, John E. Kuser, Lena Struwe, & Peter E. Smouse

9:30 Atlantic White-cedar Ecosystems: ‘State-of-the-Resource’

· Northeast region: Aimlee Laderman,

· Atlantic region: Robert Williams,

· Mid-Atlantic region: Robert B. Atkinson,

· Florida & Gulf Coast region: John W McCoy

10:50 Growing Atlantic White-Cedar Seedlings:  Effect of Container Volume, Substrate, Fertilizer, and Irrigation Frequency by Scott Derby & Eric Hinesley

11:10 Fertilizing Containerized Atlantic White-Cedar and Baldcypress By Eric Hinesley & Scott Derby

11:30 Pilot Atlantic White-Cedar Restoration Project On A Reclaimed Cranberry Bog In The NJ Pine Barrens by Emile D. DeVito & Louis J.Cantafio

11:50 Organochlorine Pesticide Residues And Restoration Considerations For Inactive Cranberry Bogs Of The Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge by Clay Stern & Timothy J. Kubiak

12:10LUNCH/POSTER SESSION Q&A

1:40 The Atlantic White-Cedar Peatlands Of Anne Arundel County, Maryland by Judy Broersma-Cole, MDE Wetlands and Waterways

2:00 Observations on Atlantic White-Cedar Ecosystem Reestablishment and  Stream Restoration in the Coastal Plain by Kevin Smith, Maryland DNR

2:20 Cypress Creek Savanna: A History Of Vegetative Changes David E. Walbeck, Keith R. Underwood, Dennis F. Whigham, & Karl D. Benedict

2:40 Constructed seepage wetlands - a new opportunity for imperiled  ecosystems by Keith R. Underwood

3:00 Water Quality Benefits Associated with Restoration of Atlantic White  Cedar Seepage Wetland Creation by Joe A. Berg

3:20 Anne Arundel County’s Seepage Wetland projects by Ronald Bowen

3:40 Forum: discussions

WEDNESDAY JUNE 7th 2006

8:00 Announcements

8:10 Effects Of Hurricane Isabel On Atlantic White-Cedar In The Great Dismal Swamp And Review Of Salvage Efforts by  Robert T. Belcher & Bryan Poovey,

8:30 Managing Atlantic White-Cedar at Dare County Bombing Range History, Hopes and Aspirations by Scott B. Smith

8:50Response Of Atlantic White-Cedar To Salvage Logging In The Great  Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge Following Hurricane Isabel: Preliminary Results by Robert T. Belcher, Robert B. Atkinson, Travis R. Comer, & E. Ben Salter

9:10 Regeneration of Atlantic White-Cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides L.) stands following harvesting in North Carolina coastal plain forests by Robert A. Mickler & Andrew D. Bailey

9:30 Atlantic White-Cedar Ecosystems: ‘Rare & Endangered Flora By Gerry Moore

9:50Predicting The Efficiency And Value Of Carbon Storage By Atlantic White-Cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) And Applying Predictions To The Restoration Design For A 1,100 Acre (440 Hectare) Carolina Bay by Herman Hudson III, Amy M. Seim, Robert B. Atkinson, Robert T. Belcher, & Brian H. Martin

10:10 Carolina Bay Restoration To Atlantic White-cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) by Kenneth O. Summerville

10:50 Species composition and hurricane damage in an Atlantic Cedar stand near the Mississippi/Alabama border by John W. McCoy & Bobby D. Keeland

11:10 The Status Of Atlantic White-Cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides (L.) B.S.P) Along The Louisiana/Mississippi Gulf Coast by Bobby D. Keeland & John W. McCoy

11:30 Allometric Trends and Management Study of Atlantic White-Cedar in North Carolina by Bronson P. Bullock, Kenneth O. Summerville, & Scott B. Smith
11:50 Atlantic White-cedar Ecosystems: ‘Wetland Soils’ by Chris Smith

12:10 LUNCH (on your own)

1:30 Effects of salinity and flooding on Atlantic white-cedar seedlings by Ekaterina Sedia & George L. Zimmermann

1:50 Evapotranspiration at a Wetland Site in the New Jersey Pinelands by Robert S. Nicholson & David Sumner

2:10 Atlantic White-cedar Ecosystems: workshop

2:30 Forum: discussions

4:10 Announcements/Upshots

THURSDAY,  JULY 8th

8:00 Checkout

8:30 NOON: Field Trips

 


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