Starker Lecture Series Capstone Field Trip Agenda

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Purpose: Engage participants in 2008 Starker Lecture Series on planted forests in a continuation of the dialog about the role of planted forests in the PNW. Bring a real world, operational focus to topics and issues raised in the lectures. Provide interaction between practitioners and academics around the topic of planted forests.

Format: All day field trip to the Oregon Coast Range. Trip will be via vans, and will leave OSU College of Forestry at 8am and return at 4pm.

Partners: OSU College of Forestry, OSU Extension Service, Oregon Department of Forestry, Starker Forests, Plum Creek Timber Company, Siletz Tribal Forests, and Oregon Forest Resources Institute (OFRI)

Field Trip Agenda

7:30am Registration table opens- Pass out plantation quiz
8:00am Tour departs
8:30am Stop #1: Underhill Tree Farm (Starker Forests)
  • Oregon’s Coastal Forest Plantations: An Overview- Mike Cloughesy, OFRI
  • Vegetation Management: The Critical Threshold Study- Robin Rose/Eric Danger
  • Vascular plant diversity in plantations-Robin Rose
  • Hike through mixed species experiment
  • Mixed Species and Monocultures-Doug Mainwaring/Fred Pfund
  • ORTOSA project- Barte Starker
10:00am Depart stop #1
10:15am Stop #2: Charlie Olson (Starker Forests)
  • Carbon flux in intensive plantations-Bev Law/John Martin
  • Nutrition in forest plantations- Doug Maguire/Mark Gourley
11:15am Depart stop #2
11:45am Stop #3: Management and Practices
  • Protecting public resources on private lands- Russ Anderson, ODF
  • Lunch
  • Tribal plantations- Mike Kennedy, Siletz
  • Industrial plantations- Jeff Light, Plum Creek
1:15pm Depart stop #3
2:00pm Stop #4: Structure Based Management- ODF
  • Planted forests using structure based management- Dan Borg/ Evelyn Hukari, ODF
  • Wood quality in planted forests- John Punches, OSU
3:00pm Depart stop #4 (Bathroom break @ Ellmaker Park if necessary)
4:00pm Return to Corvallis


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