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Proceedings of the Sixth Eastern Native Grass Symposium PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH EASTERN NATIVE GRASS SYMPOSIUM HELD IN COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA OCTOBER 7 – 10, 2008 EDITED BY WILLIAM C. STRINGER JOHN ANDRAE GREGORY YARROW COVER DESIGN BY CHARLENE MAYFIELD HOSTED BY CLEMSON UNIVERSITY SOUTH CAROLINA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY SOUTH CAROLINA DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES USDA – NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE USDA – FOREST SERVICE – FRANCIS MARION–SUMTER NF's PUBLISHED BY CLEMSON UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND LIFE SCIENCES OCTOBER, 2008 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Author(s) Plenary Session 1 History of Carolina Grasslands: Waltzing with Fire. ............................................ 8 Johnny Stowe, Elizabeth Renedo and Greg Lucas, SCDNR Concurrent A 1. Fire in Native Grass Communities Clarifying Long-Term Impacts of Fire Frequency and Fire Season in Southeastern Pine Savannas. .......................................................................... 13 Jeff Glitzenstein, Donna Streng, R. E. Masters, and W. J. Platt Woods Burning in South Carolina: The Nature and Culture of Wildland Fire and Its Impact on Our State. ..................................................... 24 Johnny Stowe Fire and Native Grasslands of the Mid-Atlantic States Before European Settlement. ........................................................................................... 34 Cecil Frost Concurrent A 2. Native Grasses for Forage Effect of Eastern Gamagrass, Bermudagrass, Kudzu Hay and Sweet Potato Silage on Performance of Boer Cross Male Goats. ................................ 35 J. R. Bartlett, E. G. Rhoden, V. A. Khan and O. S. Aribisala How Bessie Saved the World: A New Paradigm for Southeastern Grasslands Conservation. .................................................................................... 36 Patrick Keyser, Gary Bates, Craig Harper Effect of Eastern Gamagrass, Bermudagrass Hay and Two Silages on Performance of Meat Goats. .............................................................. 37 V. A. Khan, Jannette Bartlett, Errol Rhoden and O. S. Aribisala Concurrent A 3. Ecology of Native Grass Communities Ecological compatibility of native salt-tolerant graminoids and forbs: relationships between trait combinations, relative yield, and resource use. .......................................................................................................... 38 Anthony Eallonardo Jr. and Donald Leopold Plant Community and Geo-morphological Structure of a Piedmont Wet Prairie along Soil Gradients. ......................................................................... 39 Lee Roy Lehman and Larry Barden Suther Prairie: Vascular Flora, Species Diversity and Edaphic Factors. ......... 40 Robert Tompkins, William C. Stringer, Catherine Luckenbaugh, Keith Richardson, Elena Mikhailova and William Bridges Jr. Invasion of cool-season plants into native warm-season grass pastures. ...... 41 Benjamin Tracy 2 Plenary Session III Fuel from Biomass: Alternatives, Current State of Development. ..................................................................................................... 48 Dr. Brian Baldwin, Mississippi State University Concurrent B 1. Aesthetics of Native Grasslands Portraying the pre-settlement Southeast through oil paintings of remnant grassland communities. .................................................................... 49 Philip Juras The Return of the Natives to Mepkin Abbey. ....................................................... 50 Guerric Heckel, Judith Kramer and John Martin. The Role of Ritual and Ceremony as a Means to Conserve Grasslands and other Fire-Maintained Biomes - and to Bind People to Place and Practice, and Develop and Preserve Community Bonds. .................................. 51 Johnny Stowe Concurrent B 2. Native Grasses for Biofuel Switchgrass and Biofuels: Challenges and Opportunities. ............................... 52 Patrick Keyser, Craig Harper and Gary Bates. Biofeedstock Yield, Quality and Cell Wall Components of Tetraploid Meadowcrest Eastern Gamagrass Grown Under Varying Nitrogen Rates. .............................. 53 Paul Salon, Jocelyn Rose, Martin van der Grinten, B. Urbanowicz & J. Backe Switchgrass Production Potential on Reclaimed Surface Mines In West Virginia. ..................................................................................................... 54 Travis Keene and Jeff Skousen Concurrent B 3. Seed Source Development I Development of Fort Cooper source-identified germplasm of Andropogon ternarius for rangeland restoration in Florida. ............................. 55 Janet Grabowski, and Mary Gonter How Native Grass Morphology Affects Seed Harvestability. ............................ 56 Mark Majerus and Lee Arbuckle The Long Island Native Grass Initiative….Bridging the Gap. ............................ 65 Polly Weigand Concurrent C 1. Native Grass Genetics Genetic control of grassland assembly rules: preliminary results. .................. 66 Danny Gustafson, Charles Major, Avel Fernandez, Dewitt Jones, David Gibson, and Sara Baer 3 Native Species and Genetic Diversity. ................................................................. 67 John Lloyd-Reilley, Valerie Hipkins, & Shelly D. Maher Salt Tolerance of Native Grasses with Potential for Use on Roadsides in New England. ............................................................................. 68 Rebecca Nelson Brown Concurrent C 2. Canebrakes Ten years of canebrake restoration in the Georgia Piedmont. .......................... 79 Nathan Klaus Techniques for the successful restoration of canebrakes in central Georgia. ................................................................................................. 80 Joyce Marie Klaus and Nathan Klaus Raising Cane. ......................................................................................................... 81 Johnny Stowe Concurrent C 3. Native Grasses and Wildlife Providing Native Grassland Habitat for Wildlife through the Conservation Reserve Program in Kentucky and Pennsylvania. ............................................. 84 B. Isaacs, M. T. Pruss, D. Figert, D. Hughes and M. J. Howell Managing for Woodland-Savannah Birds on the Sumter National Forest. ...................................................................................................... 85 Jeffrey M. Magniez Observations on Establishment & Maintenance of Native Warm-Season Grasses for Wildlife Conservation on the South Carolina Inner Coastal Plain. .............. 86 Anthony J. Savereno, Laura A. Knipp and Gregory Yarrow Plenary IV: Forest Service / SC Native Plant Society Collaborative Native Seed Source Program in South Carolina. ................................................ 87 William C. Stringer, Clemson Univ./SC Native Plant Society, and Dennis L. Law, US Forest Service Concurrent D 1. Characteristics of Native Grass Species Optimal Harvest Regime and Nutritional Quality of Mixed Native Grasses. ...................................................................................... 88 D. Scott Horton, J. Brett Rushing, Brian Rude and Brian Baldwin Nutritive Evaluation of American Wildrye (Elymus spp.) as a Potential Forage for the Southeast USA. ............................................................. 89 J. Brett Rushing, D. Scott Horton, Brian Baldwin NCSG’s (Native Cool-season Grasses) Need Love, Too! ................................... 90 William C. Stringer 4 Concurrent D 2. Ecological Site Information System Building the Ecological Site Concept: Linking Soils, Landscapes and Vegetation. ................................................................................ 92 Homer Sanchez Managing Forest and Grasslands through Ecological Site Descriptions. ....... 93 George Peacock Jr. and Arnold Norman Accessing Ecological Site Information through NRCS . ..................................... 94 Web-based Systems. Michael Hall and Dennis Chessman Concurrent D 3. Weed Management in Native Grass Communities Response of Native Forbs to Pre-emergent Treatment of Imazapic Herbicide. ........................................................................................... 95 Matt A. Bahm and Thomas G. Barnes Herbicide Application Selectivity in Native Grass Restoration Projects. ....... 101 Matt Nespeca Responses of wiregrass (Aristida stricta) and associated herbaceous species to herbicide and fire treatments. .......................................................... 102 Allyson S. Read, Sara H. Schweitzer and Mike Murphy The Use of Volunteers for Invasive Weeds Survey. ......................................... 103 Stephen Compton and George Kessler Concurrent E 1. Seed Source Development II Optimizing Germination of Rivercane (Arundinaria gigantea) Seed. .............. 104 Tyler N. Sandlin, D. Scott Horton, John R. Ouellette and Brian Baldwin Seed Production Comparison of Three Eastern Gamagrasses ...................... 105 in East Texas. R. Alan Shadow and Joel Douglas Andropogon ternarius and A. gyrans Propagation Techniques. .................... 106 John Vandevender 2. Restoration of Native Grass Communities Preliminary Results on the Development of Seed Conditioning and Germination Protocols for Grass Species in the Longleaf Pine Ecosystem. ....................... 107 Jill Barbour, Jeff Glitzenstein and Donna R. Streng Native warm-season grasses and early successional wildlife habitat: Past lessons and a new vision. .......................................................................... 116 Craig A. Harper, Christopher E. Moorman and Patrick D. Keyser Use of Native Grasses at the Palmerton
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