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
8:00am Tour departs
8:30am Stop #1: Charlie Olson (Starker Forests) -
  • Oregon's coastal forest plantations: an overview - Mike Cloughesy, OFRI
  • Carbon flux in intensive plantations - Bev Law/John Martin
    (Virtual Tour)
  • Nutrition in forest plantations - Doug Maguire/Mark Gourley/Steve Perakis
    (Virtual Tour    )
9:45am Depart stop #1
10:00am Stop #2: Underhill Tree Farm (Starker Forests)
(Virtual Tour)
  • Vegetation management: the critical threshold study - Robin Rose/Eric Dinger
  • Vascular plant diversity in plantations - Robin Rose
  • Hike through mixed species experiment
  • Mixed Species vs. monocultures - Doug Mainwaring/Fred Pfund
  • ORTOSA project - Barte Starker
11:15am Depart stop #2
11:30am Lunch - Ellmaker State Park
12:15am Depart lunch site
12:45am Stop #3: Structure based management - ODF
  • Planted forests using structure based management - Dan Borg/ Evelyn Hukari, ODF
    (Virtual Tour)
  • Wood quality in planted forests - John Punches, OSU
    (Virtual Tour)
1:45pm Depart stop #3
2:15pm Stop #4: Management and practices
(Virtual Tour)
  • Protecting public resources on private lands - Russ Anderson, ODF
  • Tribal plantations - Mike Kennedy, Siletz
  • Industrial plantations - Jeff Light, Plum Creek
3:15pm Depart stop #4
4:00pm Return to Corvallis

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