Proceedings Of The Twelfth Commonwealth Forestry Conference

Proceedings from the conference, including 12 papers describing current action programs and future plans of both developed and developing nations of the Commonwealth, including Australia, Canada and Newfoundland, Fiji, Malta, Singapore, Britain, Dominica, New Zealand, Grenada, and Uganda.

The Central Hardwood Forest stretches from the upper Southeast to the Great Lakes & from Arkansas to Mass. It is an oak-dominated deciduous forest occurring in hilly to mountainous areas of this region -- the most extensive temperate deciduous forest in the world. Concerns the biology & management of central hardwoods by forest scientists from throughout the Central Hardwood Region of the Eastern U.S. Includes papers on: nutrient dynamics; stand structure; reforestation/reclamation; harvesting; modeling/inventory; wildlife; silviculture; disturbance effects; & genetics/tree improvement. Includes 21 poster presentations.