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Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley
Forest Restoration in the LMAV: Science at the Crossroads of Economics and Ecology
March 13-15, 2007
Vicksburg Convention Center
Purpose: To present Science You Can Use and to create a forum to discuss the economic and ecological dynamics of restoration. Landowners, practitioners, citizen groups, agency representatives, scientists, and others in the LMAV are invited to participate. The conference is organized around four major themes (Click the links below to see more information):
1. Context of the LMAV, including past and present demographics, key resource issues, key social and economic issues of the past, present and future; and land use history and pattern. Lead author: Dr. James Fickle.
2. The state of the science of bottomland hardwood restoration: identify what is known and where there are important information gaps, effectiveness for water quality and quantity, ecosystem services, costs and benefits, etc. Lead author: Dr. Theodor Leininger, Southern Research Station.
3. The state of the science of agroforestry riparian forest buffers: identify what is known and where there are important information gaps, effectiveness for water quality and quantity, ecosystem services, costs and benefits, etc. Lead authors: Drs. Gary Bentrup and Mike Dosskey, Southern Research Station.
4. The state of the science for implementing bottomland hardwood and agroforestry riparian buffer restoration; identify what is known and where there are important information gaps. Discuss organizational structures, policies, and effectiveness of programs available for landowners and citizen groups. Lead author: Dr. Randall Rousseau.
Presentations: View the conference presentations here.
Conference Design: Lead authors will select a team of authors, including at least one practitioner, to develop draft white papers around each of the four themes to be distributed prior to the conference. The papers will describe what we know in plain language (no science jargon) and present illustrative case studies. At the meeting, lead authors will present the papers in plenary sessions, followed by participant discussions to refine papers for publication in a peer-reviewed journal such as the Journal of Forestry or Forest Ecology and Management and in a hypertext Encyclopedia as part of the forestencyclopedia.net.
Audience: Seventy-five to 100 scientists, practitioners, and users invited individually to attend.
Agenda: The agenda can be found here.
View the Author Instructions here
Organizing Committee:
Vicksburg Convention Center
Purpose: To present Science You Can Use and to create a forum to discuss the economic and ecological dynamics of restoration. Landowners, practitioners, citizen groups, agency representatives, scientists, and others in the LMAV are invited to participate. The conference is organized around four major themes (Click the links below to see more information):
1. Context of the LMAV, including past and present demographics, key resource issues, key social and economic issues of the past, present and future; and land use history and pattern. Lead author: Dr. James Fickle.
2. The state of the science of bottomland hardwood restoration: identify what is known and where there are important information gaps, effectiveness for water quality and quantity, ecosystem services, costs and benefits, etc. Lead author: Dr. Theodor Leininger, Southern Research Station.
3. The state of the science of agroforestry riparian forest buffers: identify what is known and where there are important information gaps, effectiveness for water quality and quantity, ecosystem services, costs and benefits, etc. Lead authors: Drs. Gary Bentrup and Mike Dosskey, Southern Research Station.
4. The state of the science for implementing bottomland hardwood and agroforestry riparian buffer restoration; identify what is known and where there are important information gaps. Discuss organizational structures, policies, and effectiveness of programs available for landowners and citizen groups. Lead author: Dr. Randall Rousseau.
Presentations: View the conference presentations here.
Conference Design: Lead authors will select a team of authors, including at least one practitioner, to develop draft white papers around each of the four themes to be distributed prior to the conference. The papers will describe what we know in plain language (no science jargon) and present illustrative case studies. At the meeting, lead authors will present the papers in plenary sessions, followed by participant discussions to refine papers for publication in a peer-reviewed journal such as the Journal of Forestry or Forest Ecology and Management and in a hypertext Encyclopedia as part of the forestencyclopedia.net.
Audience: Seventy-five to 100 scientists, practitioners, and users invited individually to attend.
Agenda: The agenda can be found here.
View the Author Instructions here
Other Information:
Organizing Committee:
- Patricia Flebbe, USFS, coordinator
- Jim Chambers, LSU
- Elizabeth Estill, USFS
- Bryon Griffith, EPA
- Hal Liechty, University of Arkansas, Monticello
- William Hubbard, SREF
- Theodor Leininger, USFS
- Gregory Ruark, USFS
- James Shepard, MSU