Agenda

Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Field Trip (all day)
7-9 p.m. Opening Reception - ice cream social

Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Opening Session
9:00 am - Opening Remarks, Introductions, Welcome - Rick Standiford, UC Berkeley; Doug Piirto, Cal Poly SLO; John Stuart, Humboldt State University; J. Keith Gilless, Dean, College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley

9:10 am - Panel Moderator Remarks - Doug Piirto, Cal Poly SLO

9:15 am - Historical Perspective: Humans in the Redwood Region - Sandy Lydon, Santa Cruz Local Historian

9:50 am - Redwood Forest Canopies: Insights from 15 Years of Tree Climbing - Steve Sillett, Humboldt State University

10:25 am - BREAK

10:45 am - Redwood Conservation: Where Do We Go From Here? - Ruskin Hartley, Save the Redwoods League

11:20 am - Redwood Products - An Economic Perspective on Sustainable Management - Ron Jarvis, Home Depot

11:55 am - Questions and Answers from morning panel

12:15 - Lunch

Concurrent Sessions
1:30 - 3:10 PM - Concurrent Session 1 (See on-line Abstracts)

	Session Chairs:
	*Michael Furniss* PSW Redwood Sciences Lab	*Dan Porter* The Nature Conservancy Emily Limm Save The Redwoods League	*Kim Camilli* Cal Fire/CalPoly
1:30 - 1:50	Watershed Processes: Declining Sediment Loads from Redwood Creek and the Klamath River, North Coastal California; R.D. Klein, Redwood Nat. Park	Ecology: Spatial Structure of an upland old-growth redwood forest; by P. van Mantgem, USCS	Forest Health: Regeneration and tanoak mortality in coast redwood stands affected by sudden oak death; B.S. Ramage, UC Berkeley
1:50 - 2:10	Watershed Processes: Sediment yield response to sediment reduction strategies implemented for 10 years in watersheds managed for industrial forestry in Northern California; K. Sullivan, Humboldt Redwood Company, LLC	Ecology - Stand Structure in Old-Growth Redwood Alluvial Flat Forests of Northern California; C.M. Dagley, Humboldt State University	Forest Health: Sudden Oak Death and Surface Fuels in Douglas-fir-Tanoak Forests; Y. Valachovic, UC Coop. Ext.
2:10 - 2:30	Watershed Processes: Comparing Hydrologic Responses to Tractor-Yarded Selection and Cable-Yarded Clearcut Logging in a Coast Redwood Forest; L.M. Reid, USDA Forest Service PSW Research Station	Ecology - Size Distribution of Old-growth Redwood Forests in Mendocino County; B. Valentine, California Fish and Game	Forest Health: Invasive Weed Management in Redwood Forest; Jackson Demonstration State Forest's Approach; L.A. Webb, Calif. Dept. Forestry and Fire Protection
2:30 - 2:50	Watershed Processes: Road Surface Erosion on the Jackson Demonstration State Forest: Results of a Pilot Study; B. Barrett, California Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection	Ecology - Foliar Uptake of Fog in the Coast Redwood Ecosystem: a Novel Drought-Alleviation Strategy Shared by Most Redwood Forest Plants; E. Limm, Save the Redwoods League	Forest Health: Post-fire Response of Coast Redwood One Year after the Mendocino Lightning Complex Fires; R.B. Douglas, Mendocino Redwood Company
2:50 - 3:10	Watershed Processes: Sediment Production in a Coastal Watershed: Land use, Legacy, Recovery, and Rehabilitation; E. Keppeler, USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station	Ecology - Fog and Soil Weathering as Sources of Nutrients in a California Redwood Forest; H.A. Ewing, Bates College	Forest Health: Basal Cavities as an Indicator of Mortality Risk and Past Fire Regimes in Coast Redwood Forests; S. Norman; USDA Forest Service

3:10 - 3:30 PM - BREAK

3:30 - 5:30 PM - Concurrent Session 2 (See on-line Abstracts)

3:30 - 3:50	Watershed Processes: Landslides after Clearcut Logging in a Coast Redwood Forest; L.M. Reid, USDA Forest Service PSW Research Station	Ecology - Inexpensive Restoration Techniques for Rapidly Increasing Wood Cover in California Coastal Coho Streams; J. Carah, The Nature Conservancy	Forest Health: Decomposition and N Cycling Changes in Redwood Forests Caused by Sudden Oak Death; R.C. Cobb, UC Davis
3:50 - 4:10	Watershed Processes: Large Woody Debris Budgets in the Caspar Creek Experimental Watersheds; S. Hilton, USDA Forest Service PSW Research Station	Ecology - The Effects of Albinism on the Water Relations and Stem Hhydraulics of S. sempervirens Shoots; J. Pittermann, UC Santa Cruz	Forest Health: Impacts of Phytophtora ramorum on Redwood Forest Dynamics in Central California; A. Torres, San Jose State Univ.
4:10 - 4:30	Watershed Processes: An Approach to Study the Effect of Harvest and Wildfire on Watershed Hydrology and Sediment Yield in a Coast Redwood Forest; C.G. Surfleet, Oregon State University	Ecology - Accounting for Variation in Root Wood Density and Percent Carbon Increases Accuracy of Belowground Carbon Estimates; B.H. Namm, Humboldt State University	OPEN
4:30 - 4:50	Watershed Processes: Assessing Effects of Changing Land Use on Sediment Loads in Panther Creek, North Coastal California; M.A. Madej, USGS	Ecology - Responses of Redwood Soil Microbial Community Composition and N Transformations to Climate Change; D.C. Bradbury, UC Berkeley	Forest Health: Damage and Mortality Assessment of Redwood and Mixed Conifer Forest Types following Wildfire; S. Auten, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
4:50 - 5:10	Watershed Processes: Erosion at Decommissioned Road-Stream Crossings: Case Studies from BLM-managed Lands in Northern California; S.A. Flanagan, BLM	Ecology - A Chronosequence of Vegetation Change Following Timber Harvest in Naturally Recovering Coast (Sequoia sempervirens) Redwood Forests; by K. H. Michels, San Jose State University	Forest Health: The Effects of Sudden Oak Death and Wildfire on Forest Composition and Dynamics in the Big Sur Ecoregion; M.R. Metz, UC Davis
5:10 - 5:30	Watershed Processes: Fine Sediment Sources of Coastal Watersheds with Marine Uplifted Terraces; S.S. Madrone, Madrone Enterprises	Ecology - "Pygmy" Old-growth Redwood Characteristics on an Edaphic Ecotone in Mendocino County, California; by W. Russell, San Jose State University	OPEN

6:00 - 8:30 PM - Poster Session and Reception (evening)

Thursday, June 23, 2011
Concurrent Session
7:50 - 10:10 AM - Concurrent Session 3 (See on-line Abstracts)

	Session Chairs:
	*Michael Furniss* PSW Redwood Sciences Lab	*Dan Porter* The Nature Conservancy Emily Limm Save The Redwoods League	*Brad Valentine* CA Department Fish & Game
7:50 - 8:10	Watershed Processes: The Effect of Selection Logging in a Redwood Forest on Watershed Hydrology and Sediment Yield in a Coastal California Watershed; A. Skaugset, Oregon State University	Ecology - Response of Montia howellii (Howell's montia) to Road Management in California Coastal Timberlands; M.A. Renner, Humboldt Redwood Company, LLC	Wildlife, Fisheries, Aquatic Ecology: A Permeability Study on Salmonid Spawning Areas in Northern Humboldt County, California; C. Knopf, Green Diamond Resource Company
8:10 - 8:30	Watershed Processes: Delineation of Default Landslide Buffers Along Steep Streamside Slopes in Northern California; J.S. Woodward, Green Diamond Resource Co.	Ecology - Clonal and Population Studies in Redwood Using a New Suite of Nuclear Microsatellite Markers; V. Douhovnikoff, Simmons College	Wildlife, Fisheries, Aquatic Ecology: How Do We Know How Many Salmon Returned to Spawn? Implementing the California Coastal Salmonid Monitoring Plan in Mendocino County, California; S.P. Gallagher, California Fish and Game
8:30 - 8:50	Watershed Processes: The VTAC Committee: Developing Guidance for an Alterative Regulatory Pathway to the Anadromous Salmonid Protection Rules; M. Liquori, Sound Watershed	Ecology - Genetic Divergence and Potential for Response to Climate Change of Coast Redwood; R.S. Dodd, UC Berkeley	Wildlife, Fisheries, Aquatic Ecology: Measurements of key life history metrics of coho salmon in Pudding Creek, California; D.W. Wright, Campbell Timberland Management
8:50 - 9:10	Watershed Processes: Total Maximum Daily Loads, Sediment Budgets, and Tracking Restoration Progress of the North Coast Watersheds; M.S. Buffleben, Calif. Regional Water Quality Control Board	Ecology - Rangewide Genetic Variation in Coast Redwood; C. Brinegar, Univ. of Maine Farmington	Wildlife, Fisheries, Aquatic Ecology: Frogs, Fish and Forestry: The Need for a Holistic View of Network Processes to Conserve Biodiversity; H.H. Welsh, Jr., USDA Forest Service PSW Research Station
9:10 - 9:30	Watershed Processes: Logging-Related Increases in Stream Density in a Northern California Watershed; M.S. Buffleben, Calif. Regional Water Quality Control Board	OPEN	Wildlife, Fisheries, Aquatic Ecology: Distribution and Persistence of Larval Ascaphus truei and Rhyacotriton variegatus in Headwater Streams on Redwood Timberlands in North Coastal California; R. Bourque, Green Diamond Resource Company
		Session Chairs:
		Scott Sink CA PolyTechnic State University Pascal Berrill Humboldt State University
9:30 - 9:50	Watershed Processes: Sediment Yield in the Gualala River-Comparison of Sediment Budget Techniques and Suspended Sediment; M. O'Connor, O'Connor Environmental, Inc.	Silviculture, Restoration: Management Practices Related to the Restoration of Old Forest Characteristics in Coast Redwood Forests; G.A. Giusti, UC Coop. Ext.	Wildlife, Fisheries, Aquatic Ecology: Two Decades of Research and Monitoring of the Northern Spotted Owl: What do We Know and What Challenges Remain; L. Diller, Green Diamond Resource Company
9:50 - 10:10	Watershed Processes: Physics-Based Simulations of the Impacts of Forest Management Practices on Hydrologic Response; A.E. Carr, Argonne National Laboratory	Silviculture, Restoration: Variable-Density Thinning in Coast Redwood: A Comparison of Marking Strategies to Attain Stand Variability; K.L. O'Hara, UC Berkeley	Wildlife, Fisheries, Aquatic Ecology: Northern California Redwoods Provide Important Seasonal Habitat for Migrant Bats; T.J. Weller, USDA Forest Service PSW Research Station

10:10 - 10:30 AM - BREAK
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Concurrent Session 4 (See on-line Abstracts)

10:30 - 10:50	Watershed Processes: Summer water use by mixed-age and young forest stands, Mattole River, Northern California, USA; A.P. Stubblefield, Humboldt State University	Silviculture, Restoration: Forest Restoration at Redwood National Park: A Case Study of an Emerging Program; J.R. Teraoka, Redwood Nat. Park	Wildlife, Fisheries, Aquatic Ecology: Sonoma Tree Vole Habitat on Managed Redwood and Douglas-fir Forestlands in North Coastal California; S. Chinnici, Humboldt Redwood Company, LLC
10:50 - 11:10	Watershed Processes: Use of BasinTemp© to Predict Summer Stream Temperatures in the South Fork Ten Mile River Basin, CA; R. Real de Asua, Stillwater Sciences	Silviculture, Restoration: Whiskey Springs Long Term Redwood Density Management; Final Growth, Redwood Sprout, and Yield Result; L.A. Webb, Calif. Dept. Forestry and Fire Protection	Wildlife, Fisheries, Aquatic Ecology: Ecology and Management of Martes on Private Timberlands in North Coastal California; K. Hamm, Green Diamond Resource Company
11:10 - 11:30	Watershed Processes: Experimental Reintroduction of Complex Wood Jams in a Redwood Coastal Stream in Northern California; J.R. Benegar, California State Parks	Silviculture, Restoration: The Scotia Plantation: Implications for Multiaged and Even-aged Silviculture; K.L. O'Hara, UC Berkeley	Wildlife, Fisheries, Aquatic Ecology: Mesocarnivores as Focal Species for the Restoration of Post-Logging Second Growth in the Northern Redwoods; K.M. Slauson, USDA Forest Service PSW Research Station
			Session Chair:
			Helge Eng CalFire
11:30 - 11:50	Watershed Processes: Fluorometry as a Bacterial Source Tracking Tool in Coastal Watersheds, Trinidad, CA; T.A. Parker, Streamline Planning Consultants	Silviculture, Restoration: Using FORSEE and Continuous Forest Inventory Information to Evaluate Implementation of Uneven-aged Management in Santa Cruz County Coast Redwood Forests; D.D. Piirto, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo	OPEN
	Session Chair:
	*Rich Thompson* CalPolly
11:50 - 12:10	Economics, Policy: Observations About the Effectiveness of Utilizing Single Tree Selection Silviculture in Redwood Forests; R. Berlage, Big Creek Lumber Co.	Silviculture, Restoration: Stand Density and Spatial Pattern in Coast Redwood: Implications for Management, Research, and Carbon Sequestration; J.P. Berrill, Humboldt State University	Monitoring: Comparing LiDAR-Generated to Ground-Surveyed Channel Features in a Forested Mountain Stream; B.C. Dietterick, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
12:10 - 12:30	Economics, Policy: Subdivide or Silviculture: Choices Facing Family Forest Owners in the Redwood Region; W. Stewart, UC Berkeley	Silviculture, Restoration: Coast redwood live crown and sapwood dynamics; C.B. Beal, Humboldt State University	Monitoring: Tree height estimation in coastal redwood/Douglas-fir stands in Mendocino County, California; H. Eng, Calif. Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection

12:30 - 1:30 PM - LUNCH

1:30 - 2:50 PM - Concurrent Session 5 (See on-line Abstracts)

1:30 - 1:50	Economics, Policy: Estimating benefits and costs of carbon storing forestry-offset projects using California's Climate; R. Thompson, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo	Silviculture, Restoration: Carbon Storage in Young Growth Coast Redwood Stands; D.A. Jones, UC Berkeley	Monitoring: Land Surface Phenology as a Coarse-filter Indicator of Disturbance and Climatic Effects Across the Coast Redwood Range; S. Norman, USDA Forest Service
1:50 - 2:10	Economics, Policy: The Watershed NTMP: a Proposal to Manage the Redwood Ecosystem; F.D. Euphrat, Forest, Soil & Water, Inc.	Silviculture, Restoration: Using Wood Quality Measures to Evaluate Second-Growth Redwood; Y. Valachovic, UC Coop. Ext.	Monitoring: Management of the Rare Plants of the Coast Redwood Forests: A Case Study of One Timber Company's Approach; C. Sanville, Green Diamond Resource Company
2:10 - 2:30	Economics, Policy: Protecting Forests Across Landscapes and Through Generations: The Sonoma County Forest Working Group; F.D. Euphrat, Forest, Soil & Water, Inc.	Silviculture, Restoration: Coast Redwood Responses to Pruning; K.L. O'Hara, UC Berkeley	Monitoring: Prioritizing Treatment of Second-Growth Forests Using LiDAR; L.P. Leonard, California State Parks
2:30 - 2:50	Economics, Policy: California's Coast Redwood in New Zealand; T. Gaman, East-West Forestry Associates, Inc.	OPEN	Monitoring : Use of LiDAR and Multispectral Imagery to Determine Conifer Mortality and Burn Severity; R. White, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

3:00 - 4:30 - Closing Session
3:00 - Introduction to the Closing Session - John Stuart, Humboldt State

3:10 - Future of research in the Redwood Region - John Helms, UC Berkeley and Mike Liquori, Sound Watershed

3:40 - 4:15 - Panel response - Interface of research, management and conservation - moderated by John Stuart
(each presenter gives 5 minute reflections on the symposium and next steps)

Dan Porter, The Nature Conservancy
Lowell Diller, Green Diamond
Kevin O'Hara, UC Berkeley

4:15 - Wrap-up and Next Steps - Rick Standiford

4:30 - Adjourn