These proceedings contain 10 papers on forest management-research partnerships. The objectives of the workshop were to provide a forum to showcase successful partnerships and shared stewardship between forest managers and researchers, enhance forest management and research relationships within the...

Understanding stand structure and growth relationships and how they are influenced by silvicultural treatments can help us optimize forest management regimes. With two large long-term silvicultural research experiments in loblolly pine plantations, we examined the effects of planting density,...

There has been an increase in loblolly pine production driven by forest management practices like intensive silviculture and improved genetics. Some reported yield gains have been modeled using meta-regression mixed effects models accounting for the potential contribution of the four factors...

Forest management is under intensifying ecological and societal pressures amid the current geological epoch, which some see becoming the Anthropocene. These pressures extend to temporal and physical scales typical of geology; however, integrating geological processes into forest management has...

Innovation and knowledge exchange are critical to foster adaptive management and continual learning. Across the spectrum of knowledge exchange, ranging from peer-reviewed research to anecdotes, there is a largely untapped middle ground: real-world silvicultural case studies implemented and...

Downed dead wood (DDW) is a critical component of forest ecosystems, with DDW dynamics largely affected by rates of input from standing trees to the forest floor and loss through decomposition or removal. Forest management decisions affect DDW dynamics based on the type of silvicultural harvest...

A commitment to sustainability is often demonstrated through both management plans and the implementation of practices. We applied content analysis to a sample of state forest management plans from the United States to examine the terms associated with sustainability, and to assess explicit...

Global trends in the demand for forest products, decreasing total area of actively managed forests, and pressures to increase profit margins suggest that forest management intensity will continue to increase in the future. These trends have typically led to shorter rotation lengths and increased...

Context: Exploratory modeling in forestry uses a variety of approaches to simulate forest management. One important assumption that every approach makes is about the deep uncertainty-the lack of the knowledge required for making an informed decision-that future forest management will face. This...

Northern Arizona University (NAU) faculty and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) foresters initiated a partnership to expose NAU School of Forestry (SoF) graduate students to tribal forest management practices by incorporating field trips to the 1.68-million acre Fort Apache Indian Reservation as part...