Thursday March 20, 2008

8:30 am - 4:00 pm

Western Dakota Technical Institute

800 Mickelson Dr.

Rapid City, SD

Coffee and refreshments provided by The Nature Conservancy starting at 8:30 am.

TNC Chili Feed following the meeting. More details at the meeting.

Scheduled Presentations:

•  Steve Rolfsmeier – A possible Carolinian relict flora in the Nebraska Sandhills

•  Mark Gabel and Dan Tackett – A Range Extension for Cypripedium montanum Douglas ex. Lindley (Orchidaceae) into the Black Hills of South Dakota

•  Marie Curtin – Seed longevity: where do those numbers come from?

•  Bob Gitzen – Update on the NPS Northern Great Plains Monitoring Plan

•  Jack Butler – Current projects at the Rapid City Forest and Grassland Research Laboratory

•  Stefanie Wacker and Jack Butler – Understory vegetation response to timber harvest in the Black Hills

•  Beth Burkhart – Black Hills National Forest plant monitoring 2000-2007: Interactions with adaptive management and other results

•  Chelsea Vollmer – Update on Black Hills National Forest restoration of McIntosh Fen

•  Eugene Bolka – Mystic Ranger District noxious weed program

•  Bob Paulson – New TNC work in the Conata Basin

•  Michael Battaglia – Susceptibility of ponderosa pine regeneration to prescribed fire: When should you burn?

•  Peter Brown, Cody Wienk, and Amy Symstad – Forest history and structure at Mount Rushmore National Memorial