8:00 AM Safford, Hugh^*,1, ¹ USDA-Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, Vallejo, CA Seeing the forest and the trees: Ecologists and land management on the National Forests.

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8:20 AM NOWACKI, GREGORY^*,1, ¹ USDA Forest Service, Eastern Region, Milwaukee, WI Disturbance regimes and forest management: General theory and application.

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8:40 AM Regan, Claudia^{1, 2}, Hayward, Gregory^{1, 3}, Romme, William², ¹ USDA Forest Service, Lakewood, Colorado² Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado³ University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming Historic range of variation in disturbance processes: Application to conservation planning.

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9:00 AM Potter, Deborah^*,1, ¹ USDA Forest Service, Albuquerque, NM, USA Critical loads for atmospheric deposition: Implications for Federal land management in the western United States.

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9:20 AM TART, DAVID^*,, National standards for vegetation classification and mapping: Applications to management.

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9:50 AM Henderson, Jan¹, Lesher, Robin^*,1, DeMeo, Thomas², ¹ USDA Forest Service, Mountlake Terrace, WA, USA² USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR, USA Use of potential natural vegetation modeling to identify rare species habitat in the Pacific Northwest.

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10:10 AM Manning, Mary¹, ¹ USDA Forest Service, Northern Region, Missoula, MT, USA National riparian vegetation monitoring protocol development - John Day, Oregon pilot.

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10:30 AM McCarthy, Clinton¹, Suring, Lowell^*,2, Wisdom, Michael³, Rowland, Mary³, ¹ USDA, Forest Service, Ogden, UT, United States² USDA Forest Service, Boise, ID³ USDA Forest Service, La Grande, OR Ecoregional, Land Use, and Conservation Planning – Assessment of Threats to Habitats for Species of Conservation Concern in Arid Shrublands in the Great Basin, USA.

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10:50 AM Riegel, Gregg^*,1, Lovtang, S¹, Busse, M², Ramsey, M¹, Ganzhorn, S¹, Ardt, G³, Lowrie, J⁴, Babb, G⁵, ¹ USDA Forest Service, Bend, OR, USA² USDA Forest Service³ Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife⁴ USDA Forest Service⁵ The Nature Conservancy Managing an ecological paradox: Balancing wildfire risk and mule deer habitat in antelope bitterbrush of Central Oregon.

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11:10 AM Mellen, Kim^*,1, Marcot, Bruce ², Ohmann, Janet³, Waddell, Karen², Livingston, Susan⁴, Willhite, Elizabeth⁵, Hostetler, Bruce⁵, Dreisbach, Tina³, ¹ USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR, USA² USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR, USA³ USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR, USA⁴ USDI Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, OR, USA⁵ USDA Forest Service, Sandy, OR, USA DecAID: Decayed Wood Advisor for managing dead wood in forests of Washington and Oregon.

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