Opening Plenary Speaker: Jerry Franklin
> Theme 1: Social and historical importance of old-growth forests
Keynote Speakers: Peter Kanowski
- Importance to current societies
- Evolution of wet sclerophyll forests and other forest types
- Recent history of temperate old-growth forests – utilisation by aboriginal peoples and utilisation following subsequent settlement
- Social pressures on forests
> Theme 2: Biology of old-growth forests: structure, biodiversity and ecological dynamics
Keynote Speakers: Antonia Lara, David Lindenmayer, Juan Armesto, Sally Aitken
- Global range of temperate forests (comparative extent)
- Forest types and succession
- Ecological dynamics and natural disturbance regimes
- Biodiversity values
- Management of coarse woody debris
- Genetic processes
- Fragmentation and landscape ecology
> Theme 3: Long-term, multi-disciplinary experiments
Keynote Speakers: Fred Swanson, Michael Brown
- LTERs and other long-term sites
- Silvicultural systems trials
- Warra, MASS, Demo, EMEND &c.
> Theme 4: Conservation and reserve management
Keynote Speakers: To Be Advised
- Forest conservation goals
- Defining and managing reserves
- Maintaining viable populations
- Responses to climate change
> Theme 5: Towards ecological silviculture in old-growth forests
Keynote Speakers: Bill Beese
- Retention of old-forest elements
- Alternative harvesting methods and biodiversity implications
- Whatever happened to clearfelling?
- Restoration of old-forest elements
> Theme 6: Shaping old–growth forest management regimes
Keynote Speakers: Graham Wilkinson, Ben Cashore
- Regulatory systems/approaches and codes of practice
- Conservation outcomes
- Social perceptions
- Policy outcomes
- Model forests
- Regional challenges to old-growth forest management: Pacific Northwest, Australia, South America, Scandinavia, Central Europe
Closing Plenary Speaker: Juergen Bauhus