Forestry Extension Program

Forestry and Natural Resources Publications

There are a variety of publications available to you to help better understand forests and their management. Many are available on-line and some can be purchased by mail or through a trip to your local county extension office.

Many Oregon State Forestry Extension publications can be found at on the Oregon State Extension Service Publications and Videos Page. They have publications listed by subject as well as a useful search engine.

Additional Forestry Extension publications are listed below. These are generally one- or two-page fact sheet in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here to go to their home page.

• Forests and Forestry: Making Contact--directory of extension faculty
• A Point in Time: Oregon's Watershed Councils--summary of a recent survey (PDF).
• Oregon's Woodland Owner--a brief description of NIPF ownership in Oregon (PDF).
• Forest Stewardship Principles for Benton County Landowners: A Planning Guide for Family Forests -- This supplement to the National Association of State Foresters' stewardship handbook contains information specific to Benton County, and may be used as a model for creating family forest stewardship planning guides for other Oregon counties.
• A Stewardship Handbook for Family Forest Ownerships: A Handbook for Planning, Managing, and Protecting Your Woods, Your Investment and Your Environment -- The National Association of State Foresters developed this tool for family forest owners, especially those who are in the early stages of planning how to best care for their forests. It can be used to help organize and implement ownership goals in the context of forest stewardship. The stewardship principles include elements of social, economic, and environmental sustainability, and are based on the Montreal Process Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management. These indicators were also used by the Oregon Department of Forestry as the framework for the Forestry Program for Oregon.
• Oregon Forest Stewardship Planning Guidelines--Planning is the foundation of good forest stewardship and management. In Oregon, forest stewardship plans for private lands are developed for a variety of reasons. This paper offers a standard set of planning guidelines and planning elements that meet the needs of a variety of stewardship plan types. Staff members of the Oregon Department of Forestry and Oregon State University Forestry Extension Program jointly developed these guidelines.

Oregon State is not the only producer of publications on forests and forestry. Some links to or other sources of print, multimedia, and on-line resources are presented below.

• WWW virtual library: forestry page--another exceptional list of forestry-related information, plus links to other library topics.
• USDA CREES new publication list--check out what's new from the federal government.