OLD GROWTH FORESTS: EXAMINING A DISAPPEARING LANDSCAPE

SPEAKERS AND TOPICS:
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:10 Welcome to the Symposium
9:10-9:30 Welcome to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Peter Moe, Director of the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
9:30-10:20 Old-Growth Forests: What are They? Why are They Important? and What Should We Do with Them? A Minnesota Perspective in a Global Context
Kurt Rusterholz, Retired Forest Ecologist, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
10:20-10:40 Break
10:40-11:30 Old Growth Landscapes: Hemlock-Hardwood Forests of the Porcupine Mountains
and Sylvania
Lee Frelich, Director—The University of Minnesota Center for Forest Ecology,
University of Minnesota
11:30–12:25 Using Lichens to Assess the Ecological Continuity of Forest Ecosystems
Steven Selva, Professor Emeritus of Biology and Environmental Studies,
University of Maine at Fort Kent
12:25–1:25 Lunch
1:25–2:15 The Overlooked Old Growth: Lowland Conifers
Becky Marty, Regional Ecologist, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
2:15–2:35 Break
2:35–3:30 The Role of People and Fire in Minnesota’s Red Pine Forests of the Boundary Waters
Kurt Kipfmueller, Associate Professor of Geography, Environment & Society,
University of Minnesota
3:30-4:00 The Magney-Snively Northern Hardwoods Across Three Centuries
David Schimpf, Department of Biology and Olga Lakela Herbarium,
University of Minnesota Duluth

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