In the eastern United States, oaks are abundant and provide significant economic and ecological benefits. However, oak ecosystems have experienced significant changes over the past century due to fire exclusion by suppression, land-use changes, pests, and pathogens. These pressures threaten the long-term sustainability of oak-dominated systems. Research-informed management efforts are critical now, more than ever.
Oak restoration and management is a management goal in many eastern forests, but restoration is difficult to achieve in novel, mesophytic landscapes.
The USDA Forest Service will hold a Planning for Oak Restoration at Scale webinar on Thursday, October 30th from 10 to 11 am.
Presenters in this session will share research-based strategies to help achieve restoration and other management goals through natural regeneration methods such as prescribed fire, harvesting, and competition control and through artificial regeneration methods such as planting quality-grown, locally adapted seedlings.
Presenters include:
- Stacy Clark: USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station
- Melissa Thomas Van Gundy: USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station
To take part in this webinar, register at https://events.gcc.teams.microsoft.com/event/c5b020b7-8b00-4749-b86e-5868980ce0fb@ed5b36e7-01ee-4ebc-867e-e03cfa0d4697