The Central Hardwood Forest Conference is a biennial meeting dedicated to the sustainability and improvement of the Central Hardwood forest ecosystem. The conference objective is to bring together forest managers and scientists to discuss research and issues concerning the ecology and management of forests of the Central Hardwood Region. We are pleased to announce that the 20th Central Hardwood Forest Conference will be hosted by the University of Missouri and the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, and the Missouri Department of Conservation. The meeting will be held March 28-April 1, 2016, on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia.
Concurrent session papers and posters are welcomed on any aspect of forest ecology, silviculture, forest health, harvesting, utilization, biometrics, stand dynamics and modeling, GIS/remote sensing, physiology, economics, hydrology, forest soils, wildlife, recreation, or human dimensions related to Central Hardwood Forests.
There also will be a concurrent session on findings from long-term experiments.
The Proceedings of the Central Hardwood Forest Conference will be published as a General Technical Report by the Northern Research Station.
A select group of papers submitted to the session on long-term experiments will be published in a special issue of a interdisciplinary ecologically-based science journal.
For more information about the conference, please contact John Kabrick (jkabrick@fs.fed.us).