The Forest Research Laboratory, in cooperation with other departments and units in Oregon State University's College of Forestry, offers an extensive array of continuing higher education, technology transfer, and training workshops, short courses, and conferences each year. The participants come from a broad spectrum of the forest community, including mid-career silviculturists and forest professionals, forest technicians and practitioners, mill managers and supervisors, logging specialists, contractors, other natural resource specialists, industry foresters, and private landowners.
During the 1996-1997 and 1997-1998 academic years, 45 courses were offered and attended by a total of 2,644 people. All courses were carefully budgeted to be fully supported by participant fees or outside grants and contracts.
The various courses offer participants up-to-date forest research information and training and a forum for discussing and evaluating current forestry issues. They also keep open a vital channel of communication about application of the Laboratory's research findings and future research needs. Increasingly, many programs are co-sponsored by other forestry and natural resource agencies and organizations, providing further links to the users of research information.
The following list
shows the number and diversity of courses offered over the last two years.
|
Year and Title 1996 - 1997 |
Attendance
|
| Advanced Variable
Probability Sampling
Commercial Thinning
and Harvest Planning for Skyline
Forest Business and Tax Series (2 sessions) Gluing Workshop for Secondary Wood Products How to Dry Lumber for Quality and Profit Intensive Management Lumber Quality Control Lumber Quality Leadership Managing Forest Ecosystems Mapping from Aerial Photography Northeast Utility Pole Conference (with exhibitors) Plywood Manufacturing Pressure Treated Wood Salmon and Watershed
Educational Opportunities
Sawing Technology Selling Forest Products Symposium on Thinning in Westside Forests The 10th International Stream Habitat Workshop Turkish Ministry of Forestry Study Tour Unevenaged and Long Rotation (2 sessions) Variable Probability Sampling Western Forest Genetics Association Meeting |
34
44 65 15 51 106 31 15 25 22 107 52 39
229 54 19 181 169 12 127 23 97 |
|
1997-98 |
Attendance |
| Advanced Variable
Probability Sampling
Commercial Thinning
and Harvest Planning for Skyline
Ecology and Silviculture Education for Loggers (2 sessions) Forest Business and Tax Series How to Dry Lumber for Quality and Profit Inter-University Forum on Sustaining Forest Ecosystems IUFRO: Interdisciplinary
Uneven-aged Symposium and
Lumber Quality and Process Control Lumber Quality Leadership Mapping from Aerial Photography Mushroom and Managers Natural Resources
Institute Decision Making and Systems
Plywood Manufacturing Pacific Northwest
Forest Rangeland Soil Organism
Second Review Session
on Assumptions for the
Seedling Nutrition Selling Forest Products Swiss Needle Cast Cooperative Annual Meeting Unevenaged Management in the Pacific Northwest Variable Probability Sampling |
31
41 19 57 59 60
149 28 23 22 20
32 49
237
25 145 14 45 44 27 |