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Old Forests New Management conference presentations

Presentations from the CRC for Forestry co-sponsored Old Forests, New Management conference are available for free download from the conference website.

document Soil water stores in second rotation blue gum plantations
Fact sheet 3, August 2008. [pdf 92.6 kb]

document 017. Carbon friendly log truck on show in Sydney
Media release 07 August 2008 [pdf 30.2 kb]

document 016. Tasmanian community survey on plantation forestry
Media release 18 July 2008 [pdf 31.8 kb]

document 015. Western Australian community survey on plantation forestry
Media release 18 July 2008 [pdf 31.8 kb]

document 014. Tasmanian forest industry survey media release
Media release 26 June 2008 [pdf 38.8 kb]

document Tasmanian Forest Industry Survey presentation by Dr Jacki Schirmer
[pdf 89.2 kb]

document Forest industry survey summary report
[pdf 5.7 Mb]

document ANU carbon and climate change professional development course and workshop
In response to the request from industry at the recent IFA Summit for a course on carbon and climate change, ANU and the National Forestry Masters Partnership have developed a professional development course designed to deliver up to date information on current and evolving climate change policy discussions with carbon measurement, modelling and reporting methods. This flyer provides information about the course. [pdf 2.1 Mb]

document Technical Report 178 - Smethurst PJ (2008)
The regulatory framework governing commercial plantations in stream-side buffers of cleared agricultural land (also called riparian forestry) is summarised for each Australian state and territory, along with their mechanisms of revision. [pdf 886.9 kb]

014. Study investigates changing land use in the northern New South Wales
http://www.scu.edu.au/news/media.php?item_id=1096&action=show_item&type=M
Media release 23 April 2008

document Technical Report 181 - Dare et al (2008)
A best practice community engagement guide for managers and field staff in the plantation sector. This brief guide will be followed by a detailed guide later in 2008. Dare L, Schirmer J, Vanclay F (2008) A brief guide to effective community engagement in the Australian plantation sector. Technical Report 181. 12 pp. [pdf 260.0 kb]

Technical Report 168 - Washusen et al.
http://www.fwprdc.org.au/content/pdfs/new%20pdfs/PN07.3019%20Eucalyptus%20nitens%20thinning%20trial%20WEB.pdf
Gould's Country E. nitens thinning trial; solid wood quality and processing performance using conventional processing strategies. 47 pp

document 013. South Australian bluegums thousands of years old
Media release 25 April 2008 [pdf 42.6 kb]

012. Australian Geographic supports endangered Tasmanian owl research
http://www.utas.edu.au/events/Media%20Releases/2008/masked_owl.pdf
Media release 21 April 2008

document Technical Report 177 (for TCFA) - Wiggins et al (2008)
Do all possums show the same aversions for genetically resistant seedling stock? Tasmanian Community Forest Agreement report (TCFA: Research into Alternatives to 1080 Programme). By NL Wiggins, JM O’Reilly-Wapstra, SM Paterson, BM Potts. [pdf 275.5 kb]

document 011. Rural tree decline in the Midlands of Tasmania
Media release 13 March 2008 [pdf 40.3 kb]

010. New report documents community views on living with land use change
Media release 5 March 2008 [pdf 63.6 kb]

document Living with land use change: different views and perspectives - FULL REPORT
[pdf 2.0 Mb]

document Harvesting and operations in Korea and Japan
Presentation by Dr Loren Kellogg 11 January 2008 [pdf 8.5 Mb]

document Harvesting and operations in Oregon, USA
Presentation by Dr Loren Kellogg 11 January 2008. [pdf 3.4 Mb]

document The physiology of host responses to pest attack in E. globulus plantations by E.A. Pinkard et al
Paper presented at IUFRO WP 2.08.03 (October 2007) Durban, South Africa. [pdf 330.1 kb]

document Communications Strategy 2008 - comment welcome
Please forward comments to the Communications Manager, Taylor.Bildstein@crcforestry.com.au [pdf 224.2 kb]

document Harvest planning workshop (December 2007) handouts and notes
[pdf 6.0 Mb]

document Cable logging workshop (December 2007) handouts and notes
[pdf 5.4 Mb]

document Schedule 1 milestones
Education, research, and commercialisation and utilisation milestones to be delivered over the life of the CRC for Forestry, as listed in the deed of variation to the Commonwealth Agreement (April 2007) [pdf 1.3 Mb]

document Community Engagement in Australian Forest Management
Presentation describing the potential value of community engagement in forestry, by Lain Dare (PhD Candidate, University of Tasmania), Professor Frank Vanclay (University of Tasmania) and Dr Jacki Schirmer (Australian National University) [pdf 64.4 kb]

document Programme Three Harvesting and Operations Strategic Work Plan
[pdf 56.6 kb]

document 009. Global change and the world's forests
Media release [pdf 37.1 kb]

Feikema PM , Beverly CR, Morris JD, Collopy JJ, Baker TG, Lane PNJ (2007) Predicting the impacts of plantations on catchment water balances using the 3PG forest growth model. In 'MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation'. (Eds. L Oxley, D Kulasiri) Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, Christchurch, NZ. pp.2237-2243. ISBN: 978-0-9758400-4-7. Access this paper from the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand website.

Programme One publications July-December 2007

Hunt MA, Murray KE, Battaglia M and Mathers NJ 2007. Determination of specific leaf area of some commercially useful sub-tropical hardwood species. Australian Forestry 70: 173-184. Access this paper from the Institute of Foresters Australia website.

O’Grady AP, Worledge D, Battaglia 2007. Constraints on transpiration in Eucalyptus globulus in southern Tasmania, Australia. Agricultural Forest Meteorology doi: 10-1016. j.agformet.2007.10.006 (publisher’s website).

O’Grady AP, Worledge D, Battaglia M, Wilkinson A (submitted). Gradients in photosynthesis and respiration within dominant and suppressed Eucalyptus globulus trees. Functional Plant Biology (publisher’s website).

Pietrzykowski E, Sims NC, Stone C, Pinkard L and Mohammed C (in press). Predicting Mycosphaerella leaf disease severity in a Eucalyptus globulus plantation using Digital Multi-Spectral Imagery. Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal (formerly the Southern African Forestry Journal).

Potter KJB, Kriticos DJ, Watt MS (submitted). The current and future potential distribution of scotch broom, Cytisus scoparius (L) Link: a weed of commercial forestry, pastoral systems and natural ecosystems. Diversity and Distributions.

Ugalde SC, Davies NW, Barry KM (2007). Responses of chlorophyll, carotenoids, anthocyanins and epicuticular wax in leaves of E. globulus to leaf development and environmental stress. Final year student report, University of Canberra/University of Tasmania. ( available to CRC members on the members' website).

Programme One conferences and seminars July-December 2007

Dr Alieta Eyles and Dr Libby Pinkard attended EcoFizz 2007 in Sydney in late September, and presented a poster. Download the poster.

Caroline Mohammed attended the 16th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference (Back to Basics: Managing Plant Disease) in South Australia (24-27 September 2007) and presented four talks and eight posters:

Barry KM, Pinkard EA, Mohammed CL (2007) Assessing eucalypt health via physiological indicators with spectral reflectance. In '16th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference, Adelaide. Talk.
Francis A, Mohammed CL, Beadle C, Glen M, Rimbawanto A, Widyatmoko A, Puspitasari D, Hidayati N, Agustini L, Irianto R, Gafur A, Tjahjono B, Hardiyanto E, Junarto E (2007) Causal agents and disease distribution in Acacia mangium plantations affected by root rot. 16th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference, Adelaide. Talk.
Glen M, Mohammed CL (2007) Molecular identification of fungi – how useful is the rDNA ITS? 16th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference, Adelaide. Talk.
Glen M, Yuan Z-Q, Dunstan B, Wardlaw TJ, Rudman T, Mohammed CL (2007) Identification of a Fusarium sp. associated with crown rot of Xanthorrhoea spp. in Tasmania. 16th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference. Back to Basics: Managing Plant Disease. Adelaide. Poster, 219.
Horton BM, Glen M, Close D, Davidson N, Wardlaw TJ, Mohammed CL (2007) Forest health, fungi and fire and: Ectomycorrhizal community ecology of Tasmanian Eucalyptus delegatensis forest. In '16th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference. Back to Basics: Managing Plant Disease. Adelaide. Poster, 218.
Potter KJB, Glen M, Irianto R, Beadle C, Agustini L, Barry K, Rimbawanto A, Mohammed CL (2007) Genetic diversity and dispersal of root rot pathogens at the Wonogiri family trial, Central Java. 16th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference. Back to Basics: Managing Plant Disease. Adelaide. Poster, 217.
Prihatini I, Smith AH, Gonnet J-M, Wardlaw TJ, Beadle C, Glen M, Mohammed CL (2007) Linking environmental stress in pine plantations to fungal attack 16th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference. Back to Basics: Managing Plant Disease. Adelaide. Poster, 216.
Quentin A, Pinkard EA, Beadle C, Mohammed CL (2007) Can we use artificial defoliation to simulate the effects of Mycosphaerella Leaf Disease on Eucalyptus globulus physiology? 16th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference. Back to Basics: Managing Plant Disease. Adelaide. Poster, 222.
Quentin A, Pinkard EA, Beadle C, Mohammed CL (2007) Do Phaeophleospora eucalypti and Mycosphaerella leaf spot have similar effects on Eucalyptus grandis physiology? 16th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference. Back to Basics: Managing Plant Disease. Adelaide. Poster, 211.
Smith AH, Wardlaw TJ, Pinkard EA, Wotherspoon K, Mohammed CL (2007) Effects of Mycosphaerella leaf disease on the growth of Eucalyptus globulus. 16th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference. Back to Basics: Managing Plant Disease. Adelaide. Talk, 92.
Trang T-T, Glen M, Mohammed CL (2007) Resistance screening to fungal diseases for plantation eucalypts in Vietnam; molecular tools to assist fungal detection and identification. 16th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference. Back to Basics: Managing Plant Disease. Adelaide. Poster, 221.
Wardlaw TJ, Glen M, Mohammed CL (2007) Rotation-length spread of decay from branches in pruned E. nitens: Implications for pruning specifications. In '16th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference. Back to Basics: Managing Plant Disease. Adelaide. Poster, 213.

PhD student Audrey Quentin attended the IUFRO natural enemies and other multi-scale influences on forest insects conference, (September 2007, Vienna) and presented a poster "Physiological capacity of Eucalyptus globulus. Labill to recover following moderate defoliation". Download the poster.

Tom Baker and Michael Battaglia presented "Long-term growth responses of Eucalyptus globulus to soil ripping, weed control and fertiliser application at establishment on a former agricultural site in south-eastern Australia" at IUFRO WP 2.08.03 Improvement and Culture of Eucalypts 'Eucalypts and diversity:balancing productivity and sustainability', 22 - 26 October 2007, Durban South Africa. Download paper.

Mila Bristow attended two conference in Canada:

IUFRO working group 4.01.02 Growth models for tree and stand simulation conference Complex Stand Structures and Associated Dynamics: Measurement Indices and Modelling Approaches, July 29 – August 2 2007, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada. Keynote speaker Professor Jerry Vanclay of Southern Cross University presented some of the empirical growth modelling work from Programme One. Discussion at the meeting were around characterising vertical, horizontal and spatial heterogeneity in stands and the requirement for more than one index of complexity. Mila says: "there are many complexity indices which are themselves complex and diverse. The challenge for forest science in modelling complex forests is that the public want timber/fibre at monoculture prices from forests that look, or are, complex."
IUFRO group 8.01.11 impact of wind on forests titled: International Conference on 'Wind and Trees', 05 - 09 Aug 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The focus of this conference was the mechanics of wind interactions with trees, the biology of acclimative growth, and the ecological impacts of wind on forest ecosystems.

The following papers were presented at the Forestsat 07 conference in November (Montpellier, France):

Verbesselt, J., Newnham, G., Opie, K., Sims, N., Barry, K., Stone, C., Mohammed, C., Wardlaw, T. and Culvenor, D (November 2007) “Improving 8-daily MODIS time-series to monitor forest canopy dynamics in P. radiata plantations”. Oral presentation . Download the paper from the Forestsat 2007 conference website.
Barry, K., Pinkard, L.., Battaglia, M. Stone, C. and Mohammed, C. (November 2007) Estimating light use efficiency and leaf area index in eucalypt plantations with hyperspectral reflectance. Download the paper from the Forestsat 2007 conference website.
Musk R., Osborn J. (November 2007) Calibrating LiDAR derived canopy metrics to account for data acquisition parameters and forest condition in Radiata pine plantations. Download the paper from the Forestsat 2007 conference website.

E. A. Pinkard, A. Quentin, M. Battaglia T. J. Wardlaw and C. L. Mohammed presented the paper "The physiology of host responses to pest attack in E. globulus plantations" at IUFRO WP 2.08.03 Improvement and Culture of Eucalypts 'Eucalypts and diversity:balancing productivity and sustainability', 22 - 26 October 2007, Durban South Africa. Download the paper presented by Libby Pinkard.

Libby Pinkard and Caroline Mohammed attended a two-day qualitative modelling workshop in Hobart in October.

A workshop “Sustaining plantation production: a review” was held in Perth on 5 December, which was followed by Project Steering Committee/Programme Coordinating Committee meeting on 6 December.