Twenty six papers dealing with the problems and opportunities associated with artificial and natural regeneration of the oak resources are presented. Subject matter, titles of papers, and authors were carefully selected to provide the best available coverage of the state-of-the-art of oak regeneration. The use trade or company names of products or services in the Proceedings is for the benefit of the reader. Such use does not constitute an endorsement or approval of any service or product by the symposium sponsors to the exclusion of others that may be suitable.
Remarks about pesticides appear in some of t?ze papers eontained in these Proceedings. Publication of these ts does not comtitute erutorsemerat or recommendation ofthem by any ofthe conference sponsors, nor does it imply that uses discussed have been registered. Use of most pesticides is regulated byReprinted July 1996
Published by:Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Asheville, I?. C .
PrefaceThese ProceeBings are in partid fulfillment of a Technology Transfer Plan on oak agreed to by a number of parties in 1988. The plan called for a symposium on oak regeneration. Oral presentations based upon the papers in these proceedings were delivered on September 9th and loth, 1992, in Knoxville, Tennessee.A Core Team was selected to administer and implement the Technology Transfer Plan, and this Core Team served as the Steering Committee for the symposium. An outline for the symposium on oak regeneration was developed and approved by the Core Team, which then approved the subject for each paper and decided upon the most appropriate author to write and present the paper. The primary objective was to carefully structure a program that would address the problems and opportunities associated with oak regeneration. A secondary objective was to evaluate the procedures used in this effort as means of achieving technology transfer.Each of the papers in the Proceedings received technical and editorial review; all were made in the form of suggestions, however. Therefore, the content and accuracy of each paper is the responsibility of the author. Overall, the Core Team feels that these papers accurately reflect the state of the art for oak regeneration today. The Team suggests that each reader take into account that some conclusions and recommendations are reached and made in a very dynamic environment. It is expected that this symposium fills the need for "results now. "The Core Team wishes to thank the sponsors, authors, and reviewers. The Team especially appreciates the moderators who not only added their own expertise and credibility to the program but did an excellent job keeping the demanding schedule intact. shipbuilding. With the advent of technical forestry in this country there were references in early papers and textbooks to oak regeneration and the shelterwood method. This interest was primarily for academic study and followed European descriptions, but some of the earliest oak regeneration research related to concerns about areas without advance reprod...