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Great Lakes Silvicu
ulture Lib
brary: A tool to lin
nk manaagement practicces for EA
AB withiin the reg
gion muller‐Camp
pione1*, Maatthew Russell1, Eli Sago
or2, Kris Tiles3 Marcellaa A. Windm
1 Univer
rsity of Minn
nesota 2 Sustain
nable Forests Education C
Cooperative
3 Univers
sity of Wiscoonsin ntinued expansion of th
he emerald ash borer (EAB) within
n the Greatt Lakes Regiion is and The con
will con
ntinue to ch
hallenge natural resource managerrs to develo
op and test d
different sillvicultural prescrip
ptions. Each
h silviculturre prescriptiion and sub
bsequent treeatment is aan experimeent. These experim
ments shape the career of the indiv
vidual foressters and hiis or her em
mployer and
d have the potentiaal to contrib
bute to impo
ortant local knowledgee and institu
utional mem
mory. Howeever, these experim
ments are offten not shaared across aagencies wh
hich limits our capacity
y to manag
ge for new threats. The Great Lakes Silviiculture Lib
brary was d
developed to
o fill this void v
and en
nhance the ve institutio
onal memo
ory of the Great Lak
kes forestry commun
nity. The Library L
is collectiv
populatted with “ccase studiess” composeed of text, HTML link
ks, maps, aand geograp
phic data, photogrraphs, and supplemen
ntal documeents. Anyone with dirrect experieence manag
ging forest land in the Great L
Lakes is welcome to sub
bmit a case study. Thesse studies h
highlight no
ot only the ut also wheen silvicultu
ural treatm
ments did not n meet th
he desired successees of manaagement bu
objectiv
ves. As succh, these successes s
a
and failuress can help
p land man
nagers iden
ntify new silviculttural approaaches as theey plan new
w treatmentts, especiallly for invasive species like EAB. Case stu
udies can allso build leaarning netw
works by con
nnecting lan
nd managers across ageencies and location
ns. Currentlly there arre two casse studies o
on EAB an
nd ash maanagement from the Wisconssin DNR an
nd Chippew
wa National Forest. Wee are actively increasing
g content in
n this area and wellcome new ssubmissions. *Presen
nting Autho
or: TBA ‐ eith
her Matt, Elli, or myselff ; mwind@u
umn.edu Scien
nce & Mana
agement o
of Ash Fores
sts after Em
merald Ash
h Borer
W
Workshop
on
n the Future of Ash Fore
ests
July 25 – 27, 2017, D
Duluth, MN