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Sunday
17 February 2008 |
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1700 - 1800 |
Welcome Drink
Bond Store, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery |
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1800 - 1930 |
Hosting of The National Interest
radio program on Old Forests to be recorded by Radio National
Bond Store, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery |
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Monday
18 February 2008 |
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0830 |
Welcome to Country by
Leonie Dickson |
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Official Opening by The Governor of
Tasmania, His Excellency, the Honourable William Cox, AC RFD ED |
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Conference
Introduction - Representative of Australian Commonwealth
Government
Tony Bartlett, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and
Forestry |
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Conference
Introduction - Representative of Tasmanian State Government
Hon Steven Kons, Tasmanian State Minister for Resources |
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Conference Introduction - Representative of Australian Academies
Professor James Reid, University of Tasmania |
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0915 |
Conference Overview
Prof
Gordon Duff, Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry |
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0920 |
Opening
Plenary Address
Chair: Dr Steve Read
What about old-growth and other
natural forests in the 21st century?
Prof
Jerry F Franklin |
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1000 |
Morning Tea |
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Theme 1: Social
and historical importance of old-growth forests
Chair: John Spence |
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1030 |
Keynote Address
The social and historical
importance of old-growth forests
Peter Kanowski |
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1100 |
Mysterium Tremendum: The Psychology
of Reverence for Old Growth Forests
Kathryn Williams |
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1120 |
Is beech native to
Northern Europe? Evidence for close anthropogenic control of
beech establishment in old-growth Scandinavian forests
Matts Lindbladh |
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1140 |
Rotation of silver fir and European beech in
Carpathians – developmental cycle or linear trend?
Tomas Vrska *, Libor Hort, Dusan Adam, Tomas Kolar |
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1200 |
Old
growth forests – ancient pieces in a modern jigsaw
Bob Hill |
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1220 |
Lunch |
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Theme 2: Biology of
old-growth forests
Chair: John Hickey |
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1320 |
Keynote Address
Perspectives on old growth - insights from mainland eastern
Australia
David Lindenmayer |
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1350 |
Keynote Address
Old-growth forests function and dynamics in southern South
America
J Armesto *, A Gutierrez, C Smith-Ramirez, C Perez, I Diaz, C
Cornelius, M Carmona, F Diaz, D Christie, M Willson |
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1420 |
Keynote Address
Can
native populations of long-lived forest trees adapt to rapidly
changing climates?
Sally Aitken |
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1450 |
Afternoon Tea |
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Theme 2: Biology of
old-growth forests
Chair: Brad Potts |
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1520 |
Genetics of a foundation tree species drives
community structure, biodiversity, stability and ecosystem
processes: The importance of a community genetics perspective in
the dynamics of old growth forests
Thomas Whitham |
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1540 |
Coarse woody debris, old trees and biodiversity conservation in
production forests
Simon Grove *, Anna Hopkins, Katherine Harrison, Marie Yee, Lee Stamm, Tim Wardlaw, Caroline Mohammed |
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1600 |
Old trees, flammable forests and global climate
change
David Bowman |
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1620 |
Close of Session |
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1800 |
Government House
Reception |
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Tuesday 19 February 2008 |
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Theme 3: Long-term,
multidisciplinary experiments
Chair: Tim Clancy |
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0830 |
Keynote Address
Perspectives on Old Forests from the Pacific Northwest (USA) and
Andrews Forest
Fred Swanson |
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0900 |
Keynote Address
Long-term ecological research at Warra, Tasmania: the first
fifteen years, and
what next?
Michael Brown*, Simon Grove
Honorary Research Associate, School of Plant Science, University
of Tasmania, Australia |
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0930 |
Ecological and aesthetic effects of
variable-retention harvests in the North-western United States:
Initial results from the DEMO study
Keith Aubry *, Charles Peterson |
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0950 |
EMEND: A comparison of natural and anthropogenic
disturbance on a forested boreal landscape
John Spence *, Jan Volney , David Langor, Ellen
Macdonald |
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1010 |
Developing variable retention silviculture in
Tasmania
Robyn Scott |
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1030 |
Morning Tea |
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Theme 4: Conservation
and reserve management
Chair: David Bowman |
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1100 |
Keynote Address
Conservation and management of rain forests in Southern
Chile
Antonio Lara*, P Donoso, L Naheulhual
Institute of Silviculture,
University Austral de Chile, Santiago, Chile |
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1130 |
A comparison of old-growth ecology and
conservation in the Pacific Northwest USA and Southeastern
Australia
Thomas Spies |
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1150 |
Maintaining forest structure in
reserves: a case study of three Western Australian eucalypt
forests
Jack
Bradshaw |
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1210 |
Old growth forest areas & their
reservation status across Australia
Adam Gerrand, Stuart Davey, Tim Clancy*, Geoff Dunn |
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1230 |
Lunch & Poster
Session |
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1330 |
Concurrent Sessions |
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Biology
Chair: Alistair Richardson |
Genetics
Chair: Sally Aitken |
Ecology
Chair: Jayne Balmer |
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1330 |
Lichens and bryophytes: little plants, big
message
Gintaras Kantvilas*, Jean Jarman, Peter Minchin |
Seed dispersal of the bird-dispersed tree
Aextoxicon punctatum in old-growth forest fragments: A modelling
approach
(c) Mariela Cecilia Nuńez Avila *, Maria Uriarte, Pablo
Angel Marquet, Juan Jose Armesto |
Long-term ecological experiments in NSW Forests
Rod Kavanagh *, Trent Penman, Bradley S Law |
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1345 |
Phylogeography and refugia of disjunct
populations of Eucalyptus regnans in south eastern Australia
Paul Nevill *, Gerd Bossinger, Peter Ades |
Alternatives to Clearcutting in the Old-Growth
Temperate Rainforests of Southeast Alaska
Michael McClellan * |
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1400 |
Tree age as a key factor for the distribution of
epiphytes in beech forest
Örjan Fritz*, Mats Niklasson, Marcin Churski |
The breeding system of the forest giant,
Eucalyptus regnans
Rod Griffin *, Craig Hardner, Peter Buxton, Brad
Potts |
Rethinking the paradigm of stand replacing
wildfire in Tasmania's southern forests
Perpetua Turner *, Simon Grove, Chris Barry, Craig Airey |
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1415 |
How well does aggregated retention cater for
early and late successional macrofungi?
Genevieve Gates, David Ratkowsky*, Simon Grove |
Managing complex forest tree gene pools: the
case of Eucalyptus globulus in southeastern Australia
Miss Rebecca Jones *, Dorothy Steane, Bradley Potts,
Assoc Rene Vaillancourt |
Temperate overstorey eucalypt decline is related
to altered vegetation dynamics and nutrient cycling in the long
absence of fire
Dugald Close *, Neil Davidson |
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1430 |
A coarse filter approach to conserving arthropod
biodiversity in Canadian forests
David Langor*, James hammond, Greg Pohl |
A species exposed: the hidden diversity in
Eucalyptus globulus
Dorothy Steane *, Rebecca Jones, Tim Jones, Susan
Foster, Greg Dutkowski, Gay McKinnon, René Vaillancourt, Brad Potts |
The impact of timber harvesting on the size,
amount, and decay status of large coarse woody debris in the
jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) forest
Kim Whitford |
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1445 |
Factors influencing saproxylic beetle diversity
in south Swedish beech forests
Jörg Brunet*, Gunnar Isacsson |
Genetic diversity in Eucalyptus globulus
is affected by hybridisation with the rare species
Eucalyptus cordata
Gay McKinnon *, Brad Potts |
Quantifying the canopy nectar resource and the
impact of logging and climate in eucalypt forests
Bradley Law *, Mark Chidel |
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1500 |
The distribution of red-listed saproxylic
beetles in old growth reserves and managed forests: implications
for conservation
Joakim Hjältén |
Chloroplast DNA reveals genetic legacy of ice
ages in the rainforest species Nothofagus cunninghamii
James Worth *, Rene Vaillancourt, Greg Jordan, Gay
McKinnon |
An analysis of mixed forests under low stand
density control and long-rotation silviculture
Tohru Nakajima *, Satoshi Tatsuhara, Norihiko Shiraishi |
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1515 |
Living Eucalyptus obliqua trees and logs as habitat for wood-inhabiting fungi in
southern Tasmania
Anna Hopkins*, Simon Grove, Tim Wardlaw, Caroline
Mohammed |
Genetics variation in Eucalyptus globulus
drives forest community structure and ecosystem processes
Robert Barbour *, Julianne O’Reilly-Wapstra, Miss Lynne
Forster, Sue Baker, Miss Michelle Storer, Jennifer
Schweitzer, Joe Bailey, Jonathan Humphreys, Jules Freeman, Rene Vaillancourt,
Thomas Whitham, Brad Potts |
The effects of silvicultural thinning on bird
populations in Boola Boola State Forest, Victoria
Wendy Wright*, Rachel Barr |
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1530 |
Afternoon Tea |
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1600 |
Concurrent Sessions |
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Process & Structure
Chair: Chris Beadle |
Conservation &
Landscape
Management
Chair: Andrew Blakesley |
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1600 |
The role of old-growth forest in the global
C-cycle
Ernst-Detlef Schulze *, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, John Grace |
Landscape and Social Perceptions of Tasmania's
Old Forest: Then and Now
Gwenda Sheridan
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1615 |
Assessing the Vulnerability of Victoria's
Central Highland Forests to Climatic Change
Craig Nitschke *, Gordon Hickey, Rodney Keenan, Stefan Arndt |
Management of old
forests protected in National Parks and reserves in Tasmania
Peter Mooney*, Anni McCuaig, Adrian Pyrke, Jayne Balmer, Tim
Rudman
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1630 |
Does the increasing
concentration of atmospheric CO 2 mean more productive forests?
M. J. Hovenden |
The importance of
large scale interdisciplinary forestry experiments in providing
information for emerging management issues in the Western United
States
Charles Peterson*, P Anderson |
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1645 |
Hydraulic architecture and transpiration of
old-growth Eucalyptus marginata trees in south-western Australia
Craig Macfarlane *, Donald White, Richard
Silberstein |
Research informs the
improvement of hollow tree retention measures in Tasmania’s
production forests
Amelia Koch *, Sarah Munks
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1700 |
Water and stand management in the world's most
productive temperate hardwood forests
Sebastian Pfautsch *, Tim Bleby, Heinz Rennenberg, Mark Adams |
Conservation of threatened invertebrates in
Tasmania’s production forests
Sarah Ann Munks, Phil Bell*, Karen Richards
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1715 |
Drought and topographic effects on ecosystem
d2H, d13C and d18O and growth and hydrology of Eucalyptus nothofagus
ecosystems at Mt Donna Buang, Victoria
Mark Adams *, Sebastian Pfautsch, Heinz Rennenberg,
Chris Weston, Arthur Gessler |
When nature takes over from man : how fast are
old growth characteristics re-appearing in strict forest
reserves in Flanders and North-West-Europe?
Kris Vandekerkhove *, Luc De Keersmaeker, Ruben Walleyn
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1730 |
Natural disturbances, light, regeneration and
understorey plant species diversity in an old-growth Nothofagus
betuloides forest
Alvaro Promis *, Albert Reif, Stefanie Gaertner, Gustavo Cruz |
Measuring forest maturity within an experimental forest
landscape to inform conservation planning in Tasmania
Marie Yee *, Ruiping Gao, Simon Grove, John Hickey |
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1745 |
Methodology for modelling canopy structure: An
exploratory analysis in the wet eucalypt forests of Tasmania
Ian Scanlan, Chris McElhinny
Presented by Perpetua Turner * |
Restoration of secondary coast redwood forests,
North-western California
Kevin O'Hara, Daniel Porter *, William Libby |
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1800 -
1900 |
Poster Session / Wine and Cheese Evening |
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Wednesday 20 February 2008 |
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0800 -
1630 |
Conference Field Trip |
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1900 - 2330 |
Conference Dinner,
Meadowbank Vineyard |
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Thursday 21 February 2008 |
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Theme 5: Toward
ecological silviculture
Chair: Tim Wardlaw |
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0830 |
Keynote Address
Implementation and monitoring of variable retention harvesting
in old growth forests of coastal British Columbia, Canada
William J (Bill) Beese
Forest Ecologist, Corporate Forestry, Western Forest Products
Inc
British Columbia, Canada |
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0900 |
The potential for uneven-aged silviculture in
restoration and management of old forests
Kevin O'Hara, David Porter, William Libby |
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0920 |
Forest management and conservation of Nothofagus
forests in south Patagonia, Argentina
Pablo Luis Peri *, Guillermo Martinez Pastur, Maria
Vanessa Lencinas |
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0940 |
Process domains: a useful concept for
characterizing disturbance and successional trajectories in
temperate rain forests
Stephen Mitchell |
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1000 |
Is single tree selection suitable for Tasmania’s
wet eucalypt forests? Lessons from the European experience
Andreas Rothe *, Mark Neyland, John Hickey |
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1020 |
Morning Tea |
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1050 |
Concurrent Sessions |
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Ecological
Silviculture
Chair: Kevin O'Hara |
Forestry Management
Chair: Sean Riley |
Management Regimes
Chair: Loren Kellogg |
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1050 |
Feasibility of burning debris from forest
harvested with the aggregated form of variable retention
Richard Chuter |
Modelling of timber yield implications of
Variable Retention
Michael McLarin |
Designing old forest for the future: informing
policy and practice
Richard Loyn *, Edward McNabb, Phoebe Macak |
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1105 |
Stocking and early growth of the regeneration in
the Warra silvicultural systems trial, Tasmania, Australia
Mark Neyland *, John Hickey, Juergen Bauhus, Chris
Beadle, Neil Davidson, Leigh Edwrads |
Researching high-value markets for eucalypt
timber from old growth forests
Mark Leech |
Learning from the past, surviving the present and managing for
the future: Logging, Restoration and Conservation on the Tongass
National Forest
Lisa Crone
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1120 |
Using variable retention harvesting to
manipulate canopy species dominance and regeneration in
Nothofagus-Ceratopetalum cool temperate rainforest
Ross Peacock |
Timber from mature eucalypts: We like it and
will miss it when its gone
Gregory Nolan |
Design of variable
retention harvesting and monitoring programs in old-growth
Nothofagus pumilio forests of South Patagonia, Argentina
G. Martínez Pastur*, P.L. Peri, M.V. Lencinas, A.S. Moretto,
J.M. Cellini, R. Soler Esteban |
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1135 |
Variable retention and oldgrowth biodiversity:
Forestry Tasmania’s goals and monitoring program
Sue Baker, Simon Grove, Steve Read, Tim Wardlaw* |
The safety implications of aggregated retention
harvesting in tall wet eucalypt forests in Tasmania, Australia
Greg Howard |
Managing the tree hollow resource in the
matrix:from guiding principles to on-ground practices
Sarah Ann Munks *, Mark Wapstra, Amelia Koch |
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1150 |
Early responses of bird assemblages to
clearfelling and its alternatives at Warra, Tasmania
Paul Lefort *, Simon Grove |
Integrated farm forestry: Structure and
diversity in five silvicultural regimes including old-growth
E.obliqua forest, N. Tasmania
Greg Unwin *, John Lord, Arthur Lyons |
Aligning social values and management of old
forests
Rebecca Ford *, Kathryn Williams, Ian Bishop |
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1205 |
Early responses of ground-active beetle assemblages to
clearfelling and its alternatives at Warra, Tasmania
Simon Grove, Susan Baker*, Dick Bashford, Lynnette Forster,
Kevin Bonham, Russel Lewis-Jones, Georgina Brown
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Effect of agricultural land management on the
health of old growth eucalypts in the Midlands of Tasmania
Neil Davidson *, Dugald Close, Michael Battaglia,
Keith Churchill, Maria Ottenschlaeger, Tim Watson, Jody Bruce |
A Western Australian Solution
Phil Shedley *, John Meachem |
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1220 |
Creating dead wood in commercial forests to
mimic features in natural forest
Markus Abrahamsson *, Matts Lindbladh |
Forestry and agriculture are coexistent issues
in most countries in developing regions
Raquel Lopez, Paul LG Vlek, Eric Craswell* |
Forest management and
regulation in Gondwana's southern outposts: Tasmania and Tierra
del Fuego
Fred Duncan*, Leonardo Collado, Gustavo Cruz |
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1235 |
Victorian Salvage Harvesting Prescriptions -
Juggling timber and environmental recovery after megafire
Tuesday Phelan |
Forest
management based on traditional community in Papua, Indonesia
Paulus Mandibondibo |
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1250 |
Lunch |
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Theme 6: Shaping
old-growth forest management regimes
Chair: Peter Kanowski |
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1350 |
Ecosystem-based management in British Columbia,
Canada's coastal temperate rainforests
Andy MacKinnon |
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1410 |
Evolving Management of Tasmania’s Tall Old
Growth Forests
John Hickey |
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1430 |
Combining old-growth,
regrowth and plantation timber for sustainable trade
Ivan Tomaselli
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1450 |
Keynote Address
Age
discrimination - A regulatory dilemma
Graham Wilkinson
Chief Forest Practices
Officer
Forest Practices Authority,
Tasmania, Australia |
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1520 |
Keynote Address
New
Solutions for Old Growth?
Benjamin Cashore
Professor, Environmental Policy and Governance and
Political Science;
Director, Program on Forest Policy and Governance
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies |
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1550 |
Afternoon Tea |
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1620 |
Synthesis
Chair:
Steve Read
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Old forest conservation and restoration
- David Bowman
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New management paradigms for sustainable timber harvesting
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Bill Beese
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Future of old forests - Pablo
Peri |
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1650 |
Closing Plenary Address
Silviculture for old-growthness
Prof Juergen Bauhus*, Klaus Puettmann, Christian
Messier |
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1740 |
Close |
