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Badege Bishaw Badege Bishaw

Assistant Professor
Agroforestry/Social Forestry; Silviculture/ International Forestry

321 Richardson Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
  • Office: 321 Richardson Hall
  • Phone: 541-737-9495
  • Fax: 541-737-1393
  • B.S., 1979, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
  • M.S., 1985, University of Dresden, Germany
  • Ph.D., 1993, Oregon State University
  • FE/FOR 456 International Forestry
  • FS 532X Planning Agroforestry Projects
  • FOR 407/507 International Forestry Seminar
Agroforestry and social forestry; riparian management agricultural lands; international forestry.
Strengthening agroforestry and social forestry education, research and extension at the University of Fort Hare and Fort Cox College in South Africa; establishment of riparian forest buffers on agricultural lands in the Oregon coast range; red pine growth and yield in Minnesota.
USAID-EDDI, "Institutional strengthening through natural resource management: Creating a new paradigm of the commons," 2001-2003, $400,000.

USAID-ALO. "Strengthening academic infrastructure in forestry in southern Africa," 1998-2003, $250,000.
Bishaw, B., DeBell, S.D., and Harrington, C.A. Patterns of survival, damage and growth for western white pine in a 16-year-old spacing trail in western Washington. Northwest Forest Journal (in press.)

Bishaw, B., Emmingham, W.H., and Rogers, W. Riparian forest buffers on agricultural lands in the Oregon coast range: Beaver Creek riparian project as case study, (In press.)

Bishaw, B. 2001. Deforestation and land degredation in the Ethiopian highlands: A strategy for physical recovery. Assefia, Sisay and Lemi, Adugna (eds.). in Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Development Issues in Ethiopia. Kalamazoo, Michigan, August 16-18.

Dix, M.E., Bishaw, B., Worksman, S.W., Barnhart, M.R., Kolpfenstein, N.D., and Dix, A.M. 1998. Pest management in enery- and labor-intensive agroforestry systems. In Agroforestry in Sustainable Agricultural Systems. Buck, L.E., Lassoie, J.P. and Fernandes, E.C. (eds.).

Bishaw, B., Buckman, R.E., Brodie, J.D. 1993. Agroforestry and tree planting potentials for the Alemaya Basin, Hararghe, Ehtiopia. Proceedings of the Third North American Agroforestry Conference. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, August 15-18. Pp. 163-174.