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Finding hope where facts and values intersect

Meet Michael P. Nelson, Ruth H. Spaniol Chair of Renewable Resources and Lead Principal Investigator for the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest. When Michael talks about his work, he mentions carcasses and cadavers to a startling degree — startling because Nelson is not a physician or a veterinarian or even a biologist. He’s a philosopher.

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Study: Grazing Helps Invasive Cheatgrass To Flourish

A new study out of Oregon State University suggests that overgrazing could be helping an invasive grass to flourish. That differs from previous studies that have found grazing can better manage that plant — cheatgrass — which threatens rangeland habitat. The invasive plant cheatgrass can increase the frequency and severity of rangeland fires. FES Department Head Paul Doescher is one of the study’s authors.

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Insight: long-term nitrogen trends in pristine streams

Researchers at Oregon State University, US, have analysed over 500 years' worth of nitrate and ammonium data from a number of streams across the US. "Much of what we know about changes in stream water quality comes from studies of basins that have been affected by human activity," explained Alba Argerich, a postdoctoral research associate in the College of Forestry and the study's lead author.

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21May2013

Twilight Tour

LInn County Small Woodlands Association is hosting a twilight tour in the Scio area.  The theme will be bucking and grading logs.  The plan is to have logs to buck and grade on…
21May2013

Happiness is:

Linn County Small Woodlands Association is hosting a twilight tour in the Scio area.  We will gather at the Scio Odd Fellow Hall, across the street from Clevenger's, the only gas station in…
22May2013

Designing a Strand Orientation Pattern for Improved Shear Properties of Oriented Strand Board

Speaker:  Kenton Alldritt, MS Dual Major Candidate in Wood Science and Civil Engineering. Abstract:  http://tinyurl.com/c95l664…
23May2013

PhD Dissertation Defense: Rene Zamora, "Economic Optimization of Forest Biomass Processing and Transport" Major Professor: John Sessions

PhD Dissertation Defense:  Rene Zamora, "Economic Optimization of Forest Biomass Processing and Transport"  Major Professor:  John…
29May2013

Effects of BMP Procedures on Migration of Metals from Preservative-treated Douglas-fir Lumber

Speaker:  Min (Jessie) Ye, MS Candidate in Wood Science - Department of Wood Science & Engineering Abstract:  To Be Provided…