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Tuesday, September 16
Oral Presentations, USU Eccles Conference Center Auditorium

7:30 to 8:30 am Registration; coffee and juice provided
8:30 to 9:00 am Welcome. Darren McAvoy, Utah State University Forestry Extension Associate; Dr. Sam Foster, Director, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service; and Dr. Dale Bartos, Ecologist, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service.
9:00 to 9:30 am Historical Landscape Ecology of Seral Aspen in the Western U.S. Dr. Paul Rogers, Director, Western Aspen Alliance.
9:30 to 10:10 am Future Climates in Western North America. Dr. Robert Gillies, Associate Professor, Utah State University Department of Plants, Soils & Climate.
10:10 to 10:30 am Break
10:30 to 11:15 am Gypsy Moth Risk Assessment in Face of a Changing Environment: A Case History Application in Utah and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Dr. Jesse Logan, Retired, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service.
11:15 to 12:00 The Physiological Ecology of Aspen-Conifer Interactions. Dr. Sam St. Clair, Assistant Professor, BYU Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences.
12:00 to 1:30 pm Lunch (provided)
1:30 to 2:00 pm Promoting Regeneration of Aspen in the Boreal and Montane Forests of Alberta. Dr. Victor Lieffers, Professor, University of Alberta Department of Renewable Resources.
2:00 to 2:30 pm Aspen Utilization in the Intermountain West. Scott Bell, Rural Community Assistance Coordinator, USDA Forest Service State and Private Forestry.
2:30 to 3:00 pm Various Means of Limiting Ungulate Use of Aspen Regeneration in the Black Hills. Dr. Dale Bartos, Research Ecologist, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service.
3:00 to 3:30 pm Break
3:30 to 4:00 pm Efficacy and Consequences of Aspen Treatments: The USU/Deseret Land & Livestock Manipulation Project. Dr. Joshua Leffler, Research Assistant Professor, Utah State University Wildland Resources Department.
4:00 to 4:30 pm Monitoring and Assessment of Vegetation Root-Zone Status in the TW Daniel Experimental Forest. Dr. Scott Jones, Associate Professor, Utah State University Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate.
4:30 to 5:00 pm What Does the Forest Inventory & Analysis Soil Indicator Tell Us About Aspen Soils? Dr. Michael Amacher, Research Soil Scientist, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service.

Wednesday, September 17
Oral Presentations, USU Eccles Conference Center Auditorium

8:00 to 8:30 am Coffee and juice provided
8:30 to 8:45 am Announcements and Day Two Preview, Dr. Dale Bartos, Research Ecologist, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service.
8:45 to 9:30 am The Economic Value of Aspen: Beyond Board Feet. Dr. Cindy Swanson, Human Dimensions Program Manager, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service.
9:30 to 10:00 am To Be Announced.
10:00 to 10:30 am Break
10:30 to 11:00 am Sudden Aspen Decline in Western Colorado. Dr. James Worrall, Pathologist, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region.
11:00 to 11:30 am Assessing Clonal Dynamics and Sexual Reproduction in Western North American Aspen. Dr. Valerie Hipkins, Director, National Forest Genetics Laboratory, USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station.
11:30 to 12:00 am Chemical Ecology of Aspen: Herbivory and Ecosystem Consequences. Dr. Richard Lindroth, Professor, University of Wisconsin Department of Entomology.
12:00 to 1:00 pm Lunch (provided)
1:00 to 1:30 pm Non-permanent Fixed Radius Plots: A Monitoring Protocol for Aspen Managers. Steve Kilpatrick, Habitat Biologist, Wyoming Game & Fish; and Diane Abendroth, Fire Ecologist, Grand Teton National Park.
1:30 to 2:00 pm Monitoring Aspen Using Remote Sensing. Dr. Randy Hamilton, Entomologist and Remote Sensing Specialist, USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center.
2:00 to 2:30 pm Status and Trends of Aspen in the Interior West: A View from Forest Inventory Analysis. Dr. John Shaw, FIA Team Leader, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service.
2:30 to 3:00 pm Break
3:00 to 3:30 pm Can Wolves Help Restore Aspen? Dr. Joshua Halofsky, Washington Department of Natural Resources.
3:30 to 4:00 pm Avian Response to Frost-Damaged Aspen in the Wasatch Mountains of Northern Utah. Andreas Leidolf, Research Fellow, Utah State University Department of Wildland Resources.
4:00 to 4:30 pm The Role of Stand-replacing Fires and Biophysical Setting on the Persistence of Aspen in Eastern Colorado. Dr. Dominik Kulakowski, Assistant Professor, Clark University Department of Geography.

Thursday, September 18
Concurrent Workshops

8:30 to 8:45 am Directions and announcements. Darren McAvoy, Forestry Extension Associate, Utah State University Forestry Extension.
8:45 to 10:30 am Aspen Genetics and Phytochemistry. Facilitators: Dr. Richard Lindroth, Professor, University of Wisconsin Department of Entomology; and Dr. Valerie Hipkins, Director, National Forest Genetics Laboratory, USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station.
  Merging Monitoring at Varying Scales. Facilitator: Dr. Paul Rogers, Director, Western Aspen Alliance.
  Experiences and Recommendations from the Field. Facilitator: Dr. Robert Campbell, Ecologist, Fishlake National Forest.
  Wildlife Interactions. Facilitator: Steve Kilpatrick, Habitat Biologist, Wyoming Game & Fish.
10:45 to 12:00 Summaries and Wrap-up. Dr. Dale Bartos, Ecologist, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service.
1:30 to 3:00 pm Western Aspen Alliance Open Meeting.

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