Reception – Main Great Room

Appetizers and Cash Bar

Continental Breakfast – Gifford Pinchot Room

Welcome and Introductions

Welcome participants, briefly explain purpose of workshop, how we're going to work, products, review agenda, answer questions

Tom Spies, John Gordon, and Denise Lach

Setting the Stage

Basic set up and overview of natural, political, and cultural issues related to the problem of old growth today.

Brief 10 minute presentations on different perspectives to get some of the major issues out on the table and ready for discussion.

Tom Spies: new science, ecosystem dynamics
Brent Steel: symbolic politics
Cal Joyner: mgt perspectives
Kathleen Moore: ethical and moral values
Fred Swanson: synthesis

Mapping the "Old Growth" Problem

Begin mapping out the range of issues related to the problem of old growth.

Sally Duncan, Denise Lach, and Fred Swanson: Presentation of maps of major themes and provocative ideas emerging from essays

Interdisciplinary Small Groups : Identify issues missing from the map, especially ideas heard during introductions

Lunch and Walk in the Woods

Lunch.

Walking in Your Shoes...

“Cracking” open our thinking about the problem of old growth by approaching through another perspective/discipline. The idea is to help “break” disciplinary boundaries – colleagues and your own.

Small Disciplinary Groups: Identify an area that needs to be explored in more depth by people in the other two areas (i.e., don't worry about your own issues for a while). Identify issues that you think should be interesting for other groups – observers of the ecological world take on social and management issues, observers of the social world take on ecological and management issues, and observers of the management world take on the ecological and social issues.

You've Got to be Kidding...

Taking good ideas from others and using them to create ground-breaking, innovative, and provocative re-framing for own disciplines.

Small, disciplinary groups : Make the suggested issues “work” for your discipline – what would it take to make this idea a potentially groundbreaking concept in your discipline?

Dinner – East Dining Room

Different Ways of Knowing – Recreation Building

Continental Breakfast – Gifford Pinchot Room

Re-cap

Review previous day's work, today's agenda and schedule, products

Tom Spies: synthesis of previous day's work, ideas about potential products (e.g., Island Press book or special issues of a journal)

Denise Lach: today's agenda and schedule

The Future of Old Growth

Begin characterizing links and disconnects in current research, politics, and social values.

Interdisciplinary small groups : Based on yesterday's conversations and maps, identify critical linkages, overlaps, and disconnects among social and scientific issues related to old growth that may require intermediate to long term changes in how we think about and manage old growth forests. For example, how do the disciplinary issues relate to each other? What are the implications of having multiple overlapping understandings of old growth? What are the alternatives to science for telling us what old growth is?

Whole group : determine list of five issues to be presented to management guests to begin discussions

Mapping Ideas for the Conversation with Managers

Interdisciplinary Groups : Based on interest/expertise in a critical issue area, break into small groups to develop presentations for management guests. Describe and display in graphic format the issue (including driving and contributing forces) and key implications for science, management, and policy.

Interdisciplinary Groups: Brief presentation (~5 minutes) about critical issue and implications. Get comments, managers.

Lunch

Lunch with Management guests.

Engaging the Future

Denise Lach: Introducing the initial map of issues (which contains ideas generated by both management and academic participants prior to the meeting). Describe process for “re-framing” that has been used.

Interdisciplinary Groups : Brief managers on new thinking about the critical issues related to old growth using map, focusing on big questions and issues. Address questions raised by management guests

Tom Spies and Norm Johnson: Review and synthesize the issues

Break

Re-framing the “Problem” of Old Growth: Management Implications

Capitalize on expertise to refine problems and questions and add management implications

Interdisciplinary Groups including Management Guests: “Re-frame” the issues to include management and policy implications - including (1) short- and long-term needs, and (2) suggestions or recommendations for “next steps.”

What's Next?

Debrief ideas and conversations: major issues, what seems possible, what can be done now, etc.

Tom Spies: Synthesize ideas, issues, and conversations.

Informal gathering for those who wish to stay.