Faculty

Paul S. Doescher
Professor
Restoration Ecology
Department of Forest Resources
215 Peavy Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331-5703
(541) 737-9401

Education:
BS, 1975, University of Illinois, Urbana. Department of Forestry.
MS, 1977, University of Montana, Missoula. School of Forestry. Resource Conservation.
PhD, 1983, Oregon State University, Corvallis. Department of Rangeland Resources. Rangeland Ecology.

Research interests: restoration of native plant communities; fire ecology; ecological and physiological dynamics of plant species.

Current programs: restoration of shrub steppe and woodland communities in the Intermountain West; large-scale, integrative research programs; undergraduate education; curriculum development.

Courses: FOR 341, FOR 445, NR 201X

Graduate students: Breanna Sabin (M.S.-Forest Resources), Andrew Tierney (M.S.-Forest Resources)

Selected publications:

• John D. Walstad, Mark D. Reed, Paul S. Doescher, J. Boone Kauffman, Richard F. Miller, Bruce A. Shindler, and John C. Tappeiner. 2003. Wildland Fire Ecology: A new course in distance education. J of Forestry 101:16-20.
  
  
• Aaron Liston, Barbara L. Wilson, William.A. Robinson, Paul. S. Doescher, Norman Harris, and Tony Svejcar. 2003. The relative importance of sexual reproduction vs. clonal spread in an aridland bunchgrass. Oecologia 137: 216-225.
  
  
• Waichler, W. S., R.F. Miller and P. S. Doescher. 2001. Community characteristics of old-growth juniper woodlands. J. Range Manage. 54:518-527.
  
  
• Doescher, P. S. 2001. Technical Note: Early Harvest of Squirreltail Seed. J. Range Manage. 54:197-1999.
  
  
• Meays, C.L. , A.S. Laliberte and P. S. Doescher. 2000. Defoliation response of bluebunch wheatgrass and crested wheatgrass: Why we cannot graze these two species in the same manner. Rangelands 22:16-18.
  
  
• Goodwin, J. R., P. S. Doescher, L. E. Eddleman and D. B. Zobel. 1999. Persistence of Idaho fescue on degraded sagebrush steppe. J. Range Manage. 52: 187-198.
  
  
• Bailey, J. D., C. Mayrshorn, P. S. Doescher, E. St. Pierre and J. C. Tappeiner. 1998. Understory vegetation in old and young Douglas-fir forests of western Oregon. For. Ecol. and Manage. 112: 289-302.
  
  
• Jensen, E. C., P. S. Doescher and B. Shelby. 1998. A new natural resources degree for a new century. J. For. 96: 15-17.
  
  
• Karl, M.G. and P.S. Doescher. 1998. Ponderosa pine aboveground growth after cattle removal of terminal tissue. J. Range Manage. 51:147-151.
  
  
• Doescher, P. S., T. J. Svejcar and R. G. Jaindl. 1997. Gas exchange of Festuca idahoensis in response to defoliation and grazing history. J. Range Manage. 50:285-290.
  
  
• Goodwin, J. R., P. S. Doescher and L. E. Eddleman. 1996. Germination of Idaho fescue and cheatgrass seeds from coexisting population. Northwet Sci. 70:230-241.
  
  
• Vergun, J. R., E. C. Jensen, P. S. Doescher and R. R. Racine. 1996. Natural resource education: A partnership between Northwest Indians and Oregon State University. J. of For. 94:20-24.
  
  
• Jabbes, M. D. Johnson and P. Doescher. 1996. Evaluation of root growth of selected Medicago and Hedysarum species. P. 262-265. In: Barrow, J. R., E. D. McCarthur, R. Sosebee and R. J. Tausch (comps.). Proceedings: Shrubland ecosystem dynamics in a changing environment. USFS Gen. Tech. Rep. INT_GTR_338. Ogden, UT.

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