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