Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Theresa B. Jain
Part 1: Climate Change in Science and Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Cecil D. Andrus
Ecosystem Services and Climate Change: Understanding the Differences and Identifying .
Opportunities for Forest Carbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Robert L. Deal, Crystal Raymond, David L. Peterson, and Cindy Glick
Integrating Climate Change Considerations into Forest Management Tools and Training . . . . . . . . 27
Linda M. Nagel, Christopher W. Swanston, and Maria K. Janowiak
Part 2: Carbon Sequestration and Biomass Utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Carbon Concentrations and Carbon Pool Distributions in Dry, Moist, and Cold Mid-Aged .
Forests of the Rocky Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Theresa B. Jain, Russell T. Graham, and David Adams
Carbon Benefits from Fuel Treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Jim Cathcart, Alan A. Ager, Andrew McMahan, Mark Finney, and Brian Watt
Forest Biomass and Tree Planting for Fossil Fuel Offsets in the Colorado Front Range . . . . . . . . . . 81
Mike A. Battaglia, Kellen Nelson, Dan Kashian, and Michael G. Ryan
To Manage or not to Manage: The Role of Silviculture in Sequestering Carbon in the .
Specter of Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Jianwei Zhang, Robert F. Powers, and Carl N. Skinner
Estimating Long-Term Carbon Sequestration Patterns in Even- and Uneven-Aged .
Southern Pine Stands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Don C. Bragg and James M. Guldin
The Role of Forests in Energy and Climate Change - Integrating Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Dave Atkins
The Forest—Bioenergy—Carbon Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Jay O’Laughlin
Biomass Utilization Opportunities to Achieve Diverse Silvicultural Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Barry Wynsma and Christopher R. Keyes
Emissions, Energy Return and Economics from Utilizing Forest Residues for Thermal .
Energy Compared to Onsite Pile Burning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Greg Jones, Dan Loeffler, Edward Butler, Woodam Chung, and Susan Hummel
Can Portable Pyrolysis Units Make Biomass Utilization Affordable While Using Bio-Char .
to Enhance Soil Productivity and Sequester Carbon? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Mark Coleman, Deborah Page-Dumroese, Jim Archuleta, Phil Badger, Woodum Chung,
Tyron Venn, Dan Loeffler, Greg Jones, and Kristin McElligott
Ethanol Production from Woody Biomass: Silvicultural Opportunities for Suppressed .
Western Conifers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Andrew Youngblood, Junyong Zhu, and C. Tim Scott
Part 3: Alternative Silvicultural Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Estimating Site Index from Tree Species Composition in Mixed Stands of Upland .
Eastern Hardwoods: Should Shrubs be Included? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
W. Henry McNab
Consistent Definition and Application of Reineke’s Stand Density Index in Silviculture .
and Stand Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
John D. Shaw and James N. Long
The role of strategic forest inventories in aiding land management decision-making: .
Examples from the U.S. Forest Inventory and Analysis Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
W. Keith Moser, Renate Bush, John D. Shaw, Mark H. Hansen, and Mark D. Nelson
Variable-Density Thinning for Parks and Reserves: An Experimental Case Study at .
Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Christopher R. Keyes, Thomas E. Perry, and Jesse F. Plummer
Site Quality Changes in Response to Slash Retention and Prescribed Fire in Thinned .
Ponderosa Pine Forests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Matt Busse
Stand Density Guides for Predicting Growth of Forest Tress of Southwest Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Douglas D. Basford, John Sloan, and Joy Roberts
Built for the Future: New Directions in Silviculture Research and Demonstration at .
Montana’s Lubrecht Experimental Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Christopher R. Keyes and Thomas E. Perry
Part 4: Decision Support Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Addressing Climate Change in the Forest Vegetation Simulator to Assess Impacts on .
Landscape Forest Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Nicholas L. Crookston, Gerald E. Rehfeldt, Gary E. Dixon, and Aaron R. Weiskittel
Calibration of State and Transition Models with FVS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Melinda Moeur and Don Vandendriesche
FVS Out of the Box – Assembly Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Don Vandendriesche
An Empirical Approach for Estimating Natural Regeneration for the Forest .
Vegetation Simulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Don Vandendriesche
Evaluating the Ecological Sustainability of a Pinyon-Juniper Grassland Ecosystem .
in Northern Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Reuben Weisz, Jack Triepke, Don Vandendriesche, Mike Manthei, Jim Youtz,
Jerry Simon, and Wayne Robbie
Part 5: Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Summary of the 2009 National Silviculture Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
James M. Guldin