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School of Forest Resources Sets Seminars

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    The School of Forest Resources at the University of Arkansas at Monticello will host a graduate seminar series covering a wide variety of topics beginning March 1 in the conference center of the H.H. Chamberlin Forest Resources Complex.

   Seminars qualify for one hour of continuing education credit. The following seminars feature guest speakers from higher education and industry as well as current UAM graduate students.
  
   • March 1 (noon) – Janean Creighton, assistant professor of human dimensions, will discuss land use regulations and property rights of family forest owners in Washington state;

   • March 7 (7 p.m.) – Matthew Pelkki, associate professor and George H. Clippert endowed chair for Forest Resource Economics, Management and Policy, and Thomas D. Belin of Potlatch Corporation will discuss the technology, resource issues and economic impacts of developing an integrated agricultural and forest products biorefinery in the Arkansas Delta;

   • March 8 (noon) – Jamie Schuler, assistant professor of silviculture, will discuss exploring opportunities to manage upland hardwood reproduction;

   • March 14 (12:30 p.m.) – Rodney Will, an associate research professor at Oklahoma State University, will discuss biological mechanisms driving the growth of southern pine stands planted at different densities;

   • March 15 (noon) – Graduate students Joshua Richardson and Matthew Hurd will discuss the effects of litter applied to pine plantations and pastures on water quality and soil nitrogen mineralization; and individual tree outside bark green weight equations for saw timber-sized hardwood trees in southern Arkansas;

   • March 29 (noon) – Graduate students Stephanie Bunch and Bryan Rupar will discuss a private landowners’ assessment of the Acres for Wildlife Program: an Arkansas private lands program; and impacts of mid-rotation loblolly pine silviculture treatments;

   • April 5 (noon) – Graduate students Robert Araiza and Shane Foley will discuss factors affecting  the cost of forest stewardship plans in Arkansas; and relationships among soils, forage plant quality and white-tailed deer reproduction in the Ozark Highlands;

   • April 19 (noon) – Graduate students Surendra GC and David General will discuss management behavior of non-industrial private forest owners of Ozark Mountains under the threat of red oak borer; and ant diversity of the Arkansas Post National Memorial;

   • April 26 (noon) – Graduate students Troy Morris and Kevin Rose will present an evaluation of prescribed fire and herbicide treatments to restore a degraded oak ecosystem; and predominant habitat factors structuring amphibian and reptile communities on Arkansas Post National Memorial.
     
   For more information, contact the school of Forest Resources at (870) 460-1052.
 

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