Thank you for another great SAMAB conference, Asheville!
Please see below for links to presentations.
SAMAB’s 21st Annual Conference
Social and Economic Uses of Southern Appalachian Forests:
Today’s Trends to Meet Tomorrow’s Demands
November 15-17
Renaissance Hotel, Asheville, North Carolina
Conference Agenda
SAMAB Presentations:
“Forest tree species range shifts under two alternative GCM/scenerio climate change forecasts”
William Hargrove, Kevin Potter, Frank Koch & Forrest Hoffman
“How to gain access to your mountain land”
Lloyd Swift, Jr. & Barton Clinton
“What’s so special about special forest products?”
Jim Chamberlain
“Ramps: Edible forest products with deep culture”
Jim Chamberlain
“Collaboration for sustainable trails on public and private lands”
Alice Cohen
“The buy local trend: What can forest producers learn?”
Peter Marks
“Genetic variations in Hydrastis canadensis populations in WNC”
Jennifer Torgerson
“Augmenting natural medicinal plant populations with local or non-local plants: The good, bad and ugly”
Laura DeWald
“GIS modeling of parcel and housing density near public lands in the southern Appalachians”
Chris Badurek
“WNC sustainability and vitality index”
Jim Fox & Susan Weatherford
“A call for stewardship: The formation of the Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards”
Bill Hodge
“Western North Carolina report card on forest sustainability”
“Sustainable harvesting of forest resources”
“Harvesting fungi for food and medicine”
Rodney Webb
“Cultivating isn’t the total answer”
Jeanine Davis
“Cultivating forest medicinal herbs: Is this the answer?”
Jeanine Davis
“The Coweeta Listening Project: Recent past, active present, future visions”
Seth Gustafson
“Genetic variations in Hydrastis canadensis populations in WNC”
Jennifer Torgerson
“A typology of public-private investment decisions in private forestry:
Implications for forest ownership & sustainability”
Tatyana Ruseva & Burnell Fischer
“Cluster and principal component analysis of phenological signatures in remote sensing data in
the Southern Appalachians for forest threat detection”
Richard T. Mills, Jitendra Kumar, Forrest M. Hoffman, William W. Hargrove & Joseph Spruce
“Highlights and Lessons Learned: Stream restoration on two state forests in the mountains of NC”
Tom Gerow, Jr.
“Using North Carolina’s high-resolution imagery to delineate geospatial relationships between man & canopy”
Frank Obusek
“Predicting environmental flow metrics in the Tennessee and Cumberland River Valleys”
Scott Gain
“Broad scale mapping of eastern hemlock decline in the Southern Appalachians using vegetative phenology”
Margot Wallston
“Current and approaching challenges for managing streams in the Southern Appalachians”
Stephen Schoenholtz
“Cherokee National Forest landscape restoration initiative”
Katherine Medlock & Melinda Holland
“A method for prioritizing prescribed fire in the Southern Blue Ridge province”
Gary Kauffman, Greg Phillip, Ryan Jacobs & Josh Kelly
“Implementation of forestry BMP in the NC Appalachian region: Status, trends and challenges”
David Jones
“A decision support system for monitoring, reporting and forecasting ecological conditions of the Appalachian Trail”
Y.Q. Wang & John Clark
“Southern Blue Ridge matrix forest block analysis: A tool for saving the stage”
David Ray
“Assessing ecological resilience using land surface phenology observations from space”
Steve Norman, William Hargrove, Joseph Spruce & William Christie
“Breeding for resistance/tolerance to adelgids in frasier fir, eastern hemlock and carolina hemlock”
Ben Smith
“WNC Sustainability Index”
Angie Chandler