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Forests in Motion: Woodland and Savanna Silviculture

Forests in Motion: Woodland and Savanna Silviculture

Season 3 | Episode 2 | February 28, 2022

Savannas, woodlands, and other open forest systems once occupied vast areas of North America where fire disturbance, at least in part, shaped their structure and composition. Many of those acres have been lost since the advent of fire exclusion and other land use changes. Resource managers and landowners are trying to restore some of these systems for their ecological and economic value. Foresters have a lot to offer. But these are not your average silviculture prescriptions! In this episode of SilviCast we explore the challenges of restoring and managing savanna and woodland systems with John Kabrick, Ph.D., Research Forester with the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station.

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John Kabrick

Research Forester, U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station.

John Kabrick is a Research Forester with the USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, in Columbia, MO. His research is in silviculture and forest soils and much of it is focused on the interactions between the physical environment, forest regeneration processes, and stand development.  His research in woodland and savanna management includes developing meaningful density and size distribution metrics and targets, examining the effects of prescribed burning and thinning for meeting compositional and structural targets, and developing a conceptual framework for their management based on fundamental silvicultural principles.

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Episode Show Notes

  • Effects of fire frequency on long-term development of an oak-hickory forest in Missouri, U.S.A. by Knapp et al. 2017
  • Landscape- and site-levelresponses of woody structure and ground flora to repeated prescribed fire inthe Missouri Ozarks by Maginel et al. 2019
  • Refining the oak-fire hypothesis for management of oak-dominated forests of the eastern United States by Arthur et al. 2021
  • Silviculture to restore oak savannas and woodlands by Dey et al. 2017
  • Silvicultural considerations for managing fire-dependent oak woodland ecosystems by Kabrick et al. 2014

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