Poster # 11. HARTLEY, MARIA^*,1, LARRY, ALLAIN², GRACE, JIM², ROGERS, WILLIAM¹, SIEMANN, EVAN¹, ¹ Rice University, Houston, Texas² National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, Louisiana Responses of prairie arthropod communities to fire: balancing plant and arthropod conservation.

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Poster # 12. KELSEY, RICK^*,1, JOSEPH, GLADWIN², ¹ USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR 97331² ATREE, Bangalore 560024, INDIA Ethanol production in fire damaged ponderosa pine and its potential influence on beetle host selection.

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Poster # 13. Mayor, Ángeles^*,1, Bautista, Susana^1,2, Gimeno, Teresa², ¹ University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain² Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo (CEAM), Valencia, Spain Post-fire logging effects and soil degradation in Mediterranean pine forests.

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Poster # 14. GAGNON, JENNIFER^*,1, JACK, STEVEN¹, ¹ Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center, Newton, GA A comparison of the ecological effects of prescribed fire and herbicide on longleaf pine forests.

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Poster # 15. Meldahl, Ralph^*,1, Kush, John^*,1, ¹ Auburn University, Auburn University, Alabama Longleaf pine seedling mortality on a sandhills site - fire will kill.

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Poster # 16. Cohen, Susan^*,1, Kush, John², Ludovici, Kim¹, ¹ US Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina² Auburn University, Auburn University, Alabama Longleaf pine seedling survival and the role of fire on a flatwoods site.

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Poster # 17. Avery, Chadwick^*,1, Kush, John², ¹ University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia² Auburn University, Auburn University, Alabama New room to grow: patterns of regeneration in an old-growth longleaf pine stand after fire re-introduction.

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Poster # 18. ELLIOTT, KATHERINE^*,1, VOSE, JAMES¹, CLINTON, BARTON¹, ¹ COWEETA HYDROLOGIC LABORATORY, SOUTHERN RESEARCH STATION, USDA FOREST SERVICE, Otto, NC Vegetation response to stand restoration burning in oak/pine forest types in the Conasauga River Watershed of western Georgia and eastern Tennessee.

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Poster # 19. Chiang, Jyh-Min^*,1, Arthur, Mary¹, ¹ University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Prescribed fire effects on understory light environment and seedling performance of oak and red maple in eastern Kentucky.

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Poster # 20. HUTCHINSON, TODD^*,1, LONG, ROBERT¹, FORD, ROBERT¹, ¹ USDA Forest Service, Delaware, OH Fire history and the recruitment of oaks and maples in southern Ohio forests.

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Poster # 21. ALBRECHT, MATTHEW^*,1, MCCARTHY, BRIAN¹, ¹ Ohio University, Athens, Ohio Effects of prescribed fire and thinning on the woody regeneration stratum in central Appalachian mixed-oak forests.

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Poster # 22. MULDAVIN, ESTEBAN^*,1, SWETNAM, THOMAS², BAISAN, CHRIS², MORINO, KIYOMI², DELAY, LINDA¹, ¹ University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM² University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Pinyon woodland fire history and stand structure in south-central New Mexico: is planned burning valid?

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Poster # 23. BRADDEN, MAC¹, MIYANISHI, KIYOKO^*,1, ¹ University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada Fire tolerance of trees in tropical rainforest fragments.

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Poster # 24. Ryu, Soung-Ryoul^*,1, Chen, Jiquan¹, Crow, Thomas², Saunders, Sari³, Song, Bo⁴, Cleland, Dave⁵, Jurgensen, Martin³, ¹ University of Toledo, Toledo, OH² USDA Forest Service, Grand Rapids, MN³ Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI⁴ Clemson University, Georgetown, SC⁵ USDA Forest Service, Rhinelander, WI The Interaction of climate, productivity, and decay rate on fuel loading in North American Forests.

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