BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Category,Public Events,Location,Main Campus DESCRIPTION:Full title: "Oak Forests as Indigenous Land Legacies: Native American Culture and the Sustainability of Eastern Oak Forests" Some argue that Indigenous land use was negligible and that climatic changes largely explained the changing abundance of oak forests over millennia. Others argue that widespread cultural burning of forests maintained oak and other fire-adapted vegetation. The debate is highly relevant today as oak-dominated forests are failing to regenerate, with significant ecological and economic impacts: understanding drivers of oak forest dynamics can help us manage oak forests sustainably. This talk by Stephen Tulowiecki of SUNY Geneseo introduces this debate and its significance, along with the materials and methods of assessing various factors shaping the geographic distribution of oak forests historically. Drawing examples from local studies of the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ region, research suggests that present-day oak forests are perhaps the legacies of past Indigenous land management. DTSTAMP:20250301T031026 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T134500 LOCATION:Main Campus SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Oak Forests as Indigenous Land Legacies UID:5d8ce9ce0ce2f6bc8569a5835cf364c7@www.flcc.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR