35th annual Natural Areas Conference Presentations

A Joint Conference of the Natural Areas Association (NAA) and
the National Association of Exotic Pest Plant Councils (NAEPPC)

Hosted by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC)

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• James Akerson - Volunteer programs are an essential aid in controlling invasive plants
• McRee Anderson - Collaborative landscape-scale fire restoration management and planning in the Boston Mountains, Arkansas
• Roger Applegate - Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency programs to restore grassland and shrubland communities
• Hugh Archer - Protection through collaboration: Building a landscape protection effort
• Matt Bahm - Rehabilitation of native prairie remnants in the northern Great Plains
• Chuck Bargeron - Invasive Exotics EDRR: Invasive Species Mapping – Trends and Data Sharing
• Thomas Barnes - Dormant Season Control of Japanese Honeysuckle Using Herbicides and Pentrabark
• Steve Baskauf - Effect of removal of the invasive species Lonicera maackii on the size distribution of woody vegetation in a middle Tennessee natural area
• Jerry Baskin - Cedar glades and xeric limestone prairies of the eastern United States
• Rita Beard - National Park Service – Exotic Plant Management Teams: Swing your partner…
• Michael Berry - RSim: A regional simulation software environment for exploring the impacts of resource use and constraints
• John Blair - Grassland responses to fire, grazing and climate: How long-term research can contribute to management of grasslands in a changing world
• Bernd Blossey - Biological control of introduced plants: Rationale, procedures and pitfalls
• Bernd Blossey - The importance of who you are: How native and introduced plants structure aquatic and forest communities
• Geoff Call - Cooperative conservation and restoration of the barrens topminnow (Fundulus julisia) on the eastern highland rim, Tennessee
• Carmen Chapin - Invasive Exotics Management and Control: Cooperative Weed Management Areas
• Chris Clark - Why cave gates and why cave restoration? – The real reason for gating a cave
• Pete Colverson - Urban Natural Areas: Issues for Urban Natural Areas Managers
• Peter Colverson - Interpretation for Management
• Joyce Coombs - Pigeon River: A cooperative project to aid the return of aquatic life
• Patrica Cox - Global climate change, Endangered Species Act, and rare elements: How do they relate?
• Paul Davison - Conserving rare bryophytes
• Michael DeBacker - Capturing and reporting optimal frequency measures in tallgrass prairie as a surrogate measure of density
• Curt Deuser - Exotic plant management through cooperation and collaboration: The foundation for success
• Chris Dionigi - National Invasive Species Council and partnering
• Carol DiSalvo - Forest Health: Firewood
• Joseph M. DiTomaso - Exotic species and bioenergy: Potential for introducing or spreading invasive plants
• G. Keith Douce - Bugwood: Tools for invasive species and forest health management
• Scott Duke-Sylvester - Modeling the effects of strong seasonality on the spatial synchronization of raccoon rabies epidemics
• Cayenne Engel - Seeding effectiveness and natural regeneration of Mojave Desert plant communities after 2005 wildland fires
• Andrea English - Tennessee bat work
• Dwayne Estes - The grasslands of Tennessee
• David Etnier - Overview of aquatic biodiversity and patterns of imperilment in the southeastern United States
• Troy Evans - Response of native and invasive plants to removal of Lonicera maackii in a successional forest
• Jane Fitzgerald - Status of grasslands of the Central Hardwoods Bird Conservation Region and the birds that depend upon them
• Gena Fleming - The genetically altered forest
• Mary Freeman - Predicting consequences of future changes in flow regimes on aquatic biodiversity: A landscape-scale modeling approach
• Nate Fuller - Butterfly recovery: A case study in collaboration
• Jianbang Gan - Occupation, spread, impacts, and mitigation of Chinese tallowtree in the southern United States
• Esther Gerber - Exotic invasive knotweeds (Fallopia spp.) negatively affect native plant and invertebrate assemblages in European riparian habitats.
• Neil Gifford - Do shrubland birds prefer shrubland habitat in a highly modified landscape?
• Jeremy Gooding - Prevention of invader spread using commonsense strategies to manage control and research efforts, visitors, and development projects: National Park Service and conservation groups on Maui, Hawaii
• Doria Gordon - Accuracy and implications of implementing the Australian Weed Risk Assessment for the U.S.
• Jerome Grant - Biology and life cycle of the hemlock wooly adelgid in the southern Appalachians: Growing up Southern
• Louis Gross - Assessing alternative management strategies under uncertainty: An example from Everglades restoration planning
• Chris Groves - Contemporary international perspectives in karst resource management and case study from China and Kentucky
• Robert A. Haack - Alien forest insects: Recent arrivals, impacts, and management efforts
• Cindy Hale - Ecological consequences of exotic earthworm invasions: Forest decline syndrome
• Bonnie Harper-Lore - A highway runs through it
• Walker Gray Haun - Efforts made by departments of agriculture to survey for, delimit, eradicate or suppress exotic forests pests in the United States
• Alison Higgins - Python patrol: Involving non-traditional partners in early detection and rapid response
• Hariet Hinz - Host specificity screening: Basic principles and future outlook
• Hariet Hinz - Prospects for the classical biological control of the environmental weed Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
• William Holimon - Smith's Longspur Winter Landing at Arkansas Airports
• Marc Imlay - Necessity of both site-based and weed-based invasive plant control
• Jerome Jackson - Invasive exotic vertebrates in continental North America: Diversity, dispersion, impacts, and ecosystem dynamics
• Nelroy Jackson - Team Arundo – a local partnership – and NIWAW (National Invasive Weed Awareness Week) – a national partnership
• Jeff Jarvis - Conservation significance of America's newest system of protected areas: The National Landscape Conservation System
• Doug Johnson - Predictive mapping to support early detection of invasive plants
• Kristine Johnson - Impacts of hemlock woolly adelgid in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Documented and Projected
• Deependra Joshi - Mainstreaming communication, education and awareness in biodiversity conservation policies in Nepal
• Greg Jubinsky - Florida's Upland Invasive Exotic Plant Management Program: The first ten years
• Reuben Keller - Prevention strategies for limiting spread of aquatic invasive species by recreational boaters
• Reuben Keller - Economic costs of invasive plants: Control and management strategies to reduce total impacts
• Brad Kennedy - Impacts and control of the invasive species red bartsia (Odontites verna) in tall grass prairie remnants in Manitoba
• Richard Kessler - Cooperative conservation- The Green River, Kentucky example
• Katherine Kirkman - The perpetual forest: Using an undesirable species to bridge restoration.
• Renee Kivikko - Conservation toolbox: Using conservation easements for natural areas protection
• John Krupovage - Green infrastructure planning on an active industrial military installation
• Faith Kuehn - Plants for a livable Delaware
• K.L. Kyde - Learning by doing: Maryland's EDRR effort for wavyleaf basketgrass
• John Lamb - Arnold Air Force Base: A case study of barrens habitats in the Central Hardwoods Bird Conservation Region
• Julian Lewis - Managing subterranean biodiversity
• John Lloyd - Reproductive success of chestnut-collared longspur in native and exotic grassland
• Lloyd Loope - Hawaii's invasive species partnerships: Providing wise guidance and effective action in an invader's paradise
• Lloyd Loope - Toward a collaborative statewide program of early detection in Hawaii
• Christy Martin - Status of the voluntary codes of conduct in Hawaii.
• Stephen Matthews - Modeling potential impacts of climate change on bird habitats in the eastern United States
• Debbie Maurer - New Iinvaders Watch Program: An Early Detection and Rapid Response Network
• Leslie J. Mehrhoff - The Invasive Plant Atlas of New England: A regional approach to early detection of potentially invasive plants
• David J. Moorhead - Invasive plant responses to silvicultural practices
• Scott Namestnik - Functional quality of mitigation wetlands versus natural wetlands: Are wetland functions lost to development replaced by mitigation wetlands?
• Larry Orman - Building the next generation of protected lands inventories for the United States
• William Overton - Useage and management practices for caves and karst for the Southeastern Cave Conservancy, Inc.
• Glenn Palmgren - Michigan DNR's approach to selecting biodiversity stewardship areas (representative functional landscapes) on 4.6 million acres of state land using a state level protected areas database
• Darlene Panvini - Urban natural areas as "living laboratories" for universities
• Tony Pernas - The largest weed digital aerial sketch mapping project in the universe: Unless you can prove us wrong!
• Corrie Pieterson - Incorporating fire into an integrated pest management plan for Lygodium japonicum (Japanese climbing fern)
• Kerry Purnell - Conservation stewardship expanding protected areas and mitigating for climate change in the Western Cape, South Africa
• Milo Pyne - Landscope America: The conservation guide to America's natural places
• Milo Pyne - Inventory and Conservation of Natural Communities
• Milo Pyne - Introduction to southeastern native grasslands (and what about that squirrel?)
• Leslie Ratley-Beach - Land Trust Alliance: Conservation Easements: Keys to Permanence
• Carrie Read - Spatial patterns and the changes in underlying heterogeneity of remnant prairies in southern Wisconsin
• Jamie Reaser - Pet projects: Pet industry initiatives to minimize the introduction of invasive species into natural areas
• Sarah Reichard - Will climate change affect weed risk assessments?
• Rusty Rhea - Management of hemlock woolly adelgid: Current Methods
• Julie Richburg - Invasive species prioritization and management at a state-wide land trust
• David Riddell - Developing and implementing a management plan to successfully maintain emergent invasive vegetation frequency and distribution within a natural ecosystem
• Richard Roberts - Assessment of vegetatation change in the Loxahatchee River and its major tributaries, southeast Florida
• Heather Rorer - Utilizing a new online tool (www.landscope.org) to access national and local scale protected area and priority area maps for conservation
• James Russ - Utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for natural area conservation: A case study of Radnor Lake State Natural Area, Nashville, Tennessee
• Nathan Sanders - Ants rule the world, but will they rule the world after climate change?
• Scott Schlarbaum - Morphing American landscapes: Will there be any "natural areas" left in 50 years?
• Scott Schlarbaum - Addressing exotic forest pest problems through multi-agency, multidisciplinary cooperation
• Mark Schwarzlander - Direct and indirect non-target effects in biological weed control programs in North America
• Richard Shaw - Towards the biological control of Japanese knotweed in North America
• Peggy Shute - Managing aquatic systems - conflicts between human needs and conserving the southeast's quatic biodiversity
• Jan Simek - On the backs of serpents: Prehistoric cave art in the southeast of North America
• Christa Speekmann - The revision of Quarantine 37 (Q-37); addressing the risks associated with the importation of plants for planting
• Louise Stafford - Improving invasive alien plant management through partnerships
• Douglas Tallamy - Impact of alien plants on native insect communities
• Ken Tennessen - Conservation and monitoring of rare dragonflies
• John Peter Thompson - Promoting voluntary codes of conduct by engaging the right partners
• Mary Travaglini - Volunteers and partnerships… much more than just free labor
• Nitesh Tripathi - Predicting invasion patterns of two exotic invaders in a forest ecosystem
• Vera Vollbrecht - No child left inside: How the children in nature movement protects natural areas
• Damon Waitt - Be Plantwise: A national partnership to prevent the spread of invasive species across the urban/wildland interface
• Michael Warriner - Red-imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) as an agent of pedoturbation in saline barrens of southern Arkansas
• Randy Westbrooks - 2008 update on development of the U.S. National Early Detection and Rapid Response system for invasive plants.
• Peter White - An overview of the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI)
• Meg Wilkinson - A user-oriented approach to invasive species data aggregation, mapping and decision-making for all taxa
• Phyllis Windle - Ohio, the Nation, the World: All Together Now!
• Theo Witsell - Floristic inventory of tallgrass prairie remnants in the Grand Prairie region of the Mississippi alluvial plain: A baseline for restoration efforts
• William Wolfe - Tree mortality and climate change in a Highland Rim karst swamp: Sinking Pond, Coffee County, Tennessee