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Media Advisory For Release: August 6, 2007
Contacts: Dr. Carolyn Hunsaker, Forest Service research ecologist, 559/323-3211
Roland Giller, PSW Research Station public affairs, 510/559-6327
Nature Conservancy, Forest Service Co-Sponsor Symposium
SAN JOSE, Calif.—The Nature Conservancy and U.S. Forest Service invite media
representatives to a symposium on the ecological and social implications of forest
restoration that includes speakers who are among the nation’s foremost practitioners.
The session will occur under the auspices of the joint annual meeting of the
Ecological Society of America and Society for Ecological Restoration, which will be held
August 5-10 in the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.
The August 6 symposium will gather practitioners from North and Central
America who have taken innovative approaches to forest restoration on scales
encompassing vast expanses. Many scientists are finding this perspective imperative as
landscapes requiring restoration become pervasive throughout the Americas.
Participants are interested in studies on improving conditions such as continuity
of wildlife habitat, nutrient retention in soils and the hydrological viability of watersheds.
They also seek to understand how altering landscapes has influenced fire behavior and
the succession of plant growth within forest ecosystems.
Social scientists studying human communities in areas restored on landscape
scales will attend the symposium, which seeks common themes useful for land managers,
policy makers and forest restoration practitioners.
The three-hour session will include presentations by scientists from the Nature
Conservancy, U.C. Berkeley, University of Vermont, Smithsonian Tropical Research
Institute and U.S. Forest Service’s Sierra Nevada Research Center.
For additional information about the symposium, log onto:
http://eco.confex.com/eco/2007/techprogram/S1641.HTM
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