Research Partnerships and Cooperatives
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- Landscape units designated to encourage the development and testing of technical and social approaches to achieving desired ecological, economic, and other social objective. There are ten areas ranging from about 92,000 to nearly 500,000 acres of federal lands that have been identified. These areas are distributed in western Oregon and Washington and northwestern California.
- The Applegate project is a research project on the development and application of strategic forest planning methods for the fire-prone landscapes of Oregon. Scientists from OSU, the University of Washington, and the PNW Station will be involved as will managers, landowners, specialists, and interested citizens. The overall project goal is to combine sound scientific methods with community involvement and technical advice from the federal agencies to develop a model which will reveal the outcomes of various management strategies
relative to achievement of resource management goals.
- Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is the most widely distributed tree species in North America. Despite its ability to adapt to disturbance, quaking aspen is declining throughout much
of its native range. This site includes links to three information resources about the quaking
aspen. The Aspen Project is a continuing research project at Oregon State University for the
study of quaking aspen and its decline in the western United States.
- A cooperative research, development, and application effort to mobilize resources on management issues of the Blue Mountain forests and rangelands. It involves scientists from OSU, the USDA Forest Service, the State of Oregon, and other universities.
- CFER is a cooperative venture between Oregon State University, USGS Forest
and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Oregon Department of Forestry.
The CFER partnership works closely with resource managers, researchers, and decision-makers to
develop and convey reliable scientific information needed to successfully implement ecosystem-based
management in the Pacific Northwest.
- An effort to develop and evaluate concepts and tools to understand patterns and dynamics of provincial ecosystems such as the Coast Range and to analyze the aggregate ecological, economic, and
social consequences of the forest policies for different owners at the province (subregional) scale.
- A 12-year program of research and technology transfer concentrated on reforestation and reparian-zone management problems in the Oregon Cost Range. COPE is a cooperative program involving scientists from OSU, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, and the USDI Bureau of Land Management. In addition to federal appropriations specifically for the program, significant local support comes from state and federal agencies, forest industry, county and city governments, and the Oregon Small Woodlands Association. The program will end in September 1998.
- A regional research center focusing on developing new wood products and processing systems.
- EMDS version 1.0 is an application framework for knowledge based decision support of environmental assessments. The system integrates state-of-the-art geographic information system (GIS) and knowledge based reasoning technologies in the Microsoft Windows environment to provide a novel analytical tool that is powerful but easy to use.
- The ERSAL research program develops and applies remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology for the study of forest lands and related natural resource problems. Research topics include landscape ecology, remote sensing of plant cover, forest landscape patterns, and wildlife habitat.
- A research, development, and technology transfer facility focused on the subjects of photogrammetry, digital mapping, and image processing. the primary mission of FPRL is the introduction and application of modern photogrammetric techniques into natural resource management. The facility offers an analytical plotter, image processing equipment, and a PC-based mapping system tied to digitizing tables.
- FRESC research activities encompass issues of major importance to the Department of the Interior including forest management, wildlife/habitat relationships, and rangeland restoration in Pacific
Northwest ecosystems. Forging solid working relationships with land management agencies in the
region is central to all FRESC research activities, to insure that the information developed by FRESC
researchers is useful in helping managers make sound management decisions.
- Research and technology transfer program on the ecology, reforestation, and stand management of Northwest hardwood species, especially red alder.
- A 200-year program of research in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska
with major funding from the Forest Service, the Washington
Department of Natural Resources, the National Science Foundation,
the Environmental Protection Agency, and Oregon State University.
This research seeks understanding of processes that control the
long-term productivity of the land--including timber, other
commodity and non-commodity resources, and biodiversity--to support
sustainable-ecosystem management.
- A long-term program of research at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest with major funding from the National Science foundation, the Forest Service, and OSU LTER is developing fundamental ecological relationships in managed and natural forests and incorporating them into forest management strategies.
- The Northern Coast Range Adaptive Management Area is one of 10 Adaptive Management Areas (AMAs) established in the Pacific Northwest, USA, in 1994. The Northern Coast Range AMA is located in northwestern Oregon between the Pacific Ocean and the Willamette Valley and includes lands managed by USDA Forest Service and USDI Bureau of Land Management.
- Research program on nursery management and seedling production and performance, emphasizing reforestation planting systems.
- An individual tree growth model developed for Southwest Oregon and the Western Willamette Valley of Oregon. It will project stand development for several species mixes, stand structures and management activities.
- genetics and tree improvement research program aimed at increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of operational tree improvement programs.
- A program integrating social and biological aspects of forestry research into strategies for the long-term sustainable management of forests for a multiplicity of values.
- The focus of the Swiss Needle Cast Cooperative is to conduct research on Swiss needle cast of
Douglas-fir for forest land owners in western Oregon and Washington.
- Aims at improvement of forest tree species through genetic transformation.
- The Corvallis Forest and Range Experiment Station is located on the OSU campus adjacent to Peavy hall and is an important research partner.
- Conducts research aimed at prolonging the service life and
improving the performance of wood poles and crossarms used by electric
utilities. Members include utilities, chemical companies, wood treaters and
inspection agencies. Research topics include developing treatments for
controlling internal decay, assessing methods for pole inspection, improving
specifications for initial treatment, and offering short courses to educate
utility users.
- Research program on vegetation management, focusing on plant competition, vegetation control, and early growth of forest stands.
| VMRC, NTC, PNWTIRC, TGERC, and HSC are research cooperatives funded by OSU and member organizations that jointly select and carry out research on high-priority research problems. |
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