Proceedings of the Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference (10th). Held in Shreveport, Louisiana on February 16-18, 1999.

摘要

The Tenth Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference was held February 16-18, 1999, at the Holiday Inn Financial Plaza in Shreveport, LA. This conference was the latest in a series of meetings designed to provide a forum for the exchange of research information among silviculturists and researchers in related areas, research coordination, review of research in progress, and new approaches or techniques of general interest. The conference consisted of four concurrent sessions over 2 days, two poster sessions, and three concurrent field tours on the third day. Presentations covered a wide array of topics related to silvics and silviculture. They emphasized research in pine, hardwood, and mixed-species forests in the areas of upland hardwood management, intensive management of bottom-land hardwoods, hardwood and bottom-land regeneration, site preparation for pine establishment, natural and artificial regeneration of pines, pine fertilization, biometrics, water and soil hydrology, insects and diseases, landscape management, and ecological relationships. Field trips included visits to (1) the Crossett Experimental Forest, USDA Forest Service; (2) the Hill Farm Research Station, LSU Agricultural Experiment Station; and (3} the Bayou Dorcheat Management Area, International Paper Company, managed cooperatively with the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission. The conference was attended by over 350 people and had 141 oral and poster presentations. Daniel D. Angel, President, Stephen F. Austin State University; and Brian P. Oswald, Arthur Temple College of Forestry, made the welcoming remarks to the conference.