Native Tree Society BBS

It has been my privilege to serve in this capacity, and I look forward to continuing to help into the future with the Bulletin. I am very willing to help with the transition in any way I can--now all we need is someone to step up to the plate!

Don Bragg

_B_ENTS_v10_01_sec1_CP.jpg _B_ENTS_v10_01.pdf TABLE OF CONTENTS Next Up!?.............................................................................................................................1 Don C. Bragg, Research Forester, USDA Forest Service ANNOUNCEMENTS AND SOCIETY ACTIONS New Opportun...

I'm not sure this will have much impact on how forest growth is simulated by the Forest Service...This paper was more intended as a alternative way to derive height curves using information from a range of tree sizes. Site index curves are generally derived for simplicity of use, rather than to desc...

Big Oak Tree State Park (BOTSP) is located in the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain near the community of East Prairie, Missouri. This state park, which now covers nearly 1,029 acres, was established in 1938 to protect a remnant 80-acre stand of old bottomland hardwood timber, including the iconic “b...

Larry--let me know the next time you plan to head over to Noxubee to measure some trees...I'll see if I can't join you. I've been looking for an excuse to get out and measure some big loblolly pines, and this sounds like as good of a place as any!

Don Bragg

For those interested, the following meeting on using field technology to collect and map forestry and natural resource-related data may be of interest: http://www.westernforestry.org/Events/conference/field-technology-2014/ LaserTechnology is a sponsor of this meeting; looks like there will be prese...

Jess--You may want to explore the Rick Evans Grandview Prairie WMA (http://www.agfc.com/hunting/Pages/wmaDe ... x?show=551) for more examples of bois d'arc; I remember lots of it amongst the grasslands.

Don

Karlheinz--Good eye! I had copied your text into a previous article to help speed the process (allows me to use the existing formatting); I then delete the other article's text. Or at least I usually remember to--in this case, I missed some! I will correct this and send Ed Frank a new version of thi...

I think the science will continue to move ahead, even if AF and other traditionalist foresters/mensurationists continue to choose to follow the "old ways". I'll try to remember to post on a different recent reference on this y'all may get a kick out of...

While searching a journal recently for some unrelated research articles, I came across the following studies that had been recently published that may be of interest to NTS: Larjavaara, M. 2014. The world's tallest trees grow in thermally similar climates. New Phytologist 202:344–349. doi: 10.1111/n...