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College of Forestry • Winter 2006 College of Forestry • Winter 2006 DEAN’S COLUMN focus on CONTENTS College of Forestry • Winter 2006 orvallis hums with activity Dean’s Column and excitement this time Cof year as researchers and College News their graduate assistants return from productive weeks in the field, new 3 Feature: Research at Warm Springs Dean faculty members move into place, and Reservation Hal Salwasser students burst back upon the campus 5 Feature: Quantitative Sciences Group Development Director with renewed enthusiasm and energy. Lisa French These students are what I’m excited 6 Feature: Advancing the Science Managing Editor about this year! around the World Forestry is now home to the largest class of students Caryn Davis (graduate and undergraduate) since 1981. We are starting Forest Engineering Contributing Writers the year with 624 students walking the halls of Peavy and Marie Oliver, Michael Fuller, Matt 9 Feature: Supply Chain Management Richardson.This represents a 15% increase over last year. and Forest Road Construction Thompson, Peg Herring This growth is not a one-year bump – our five-year trend Designer is up 31%! 10 Feature: Twenty Year Reunion Sandra Arbogast I had the chance to meet many of the new students at Annual Ring, and I was impressed. We have students Forest Resources Photography from 31 states and numerous countries.They have solid Forestry Communications Group, 12 Feature: Evaluating Land-use Tradeoff academic credentials and seem committed to learning Forestry Media Center, Student more about forestry and natural resources. 13 Feature: DVD Targets Fire Services Department, Marie Oliver, Increasing enrollment is one of our top strategic goals, Management Personnel and others so I’m pleased with the progress. Retention of current students and the addition of new students speak volumes Forest Science about the people and programs in the College. Our How to Reach Us recruiters and advisors have worked hard to contact 15 Feature: Modeling Carbon Cycles Address changes: prospective students and help them learn about the Cheryl Lester 16 Feature: On the Shoulders of Giants opportunities in forestry and natural resources. Our Oregon State University Foundation faculty continue to provide courses that prepare students Wood Science and Engineering 850 SW 35th Street Corvallis, OR 97333 for relevant and interesting careers. Our researchers [email protected] offer world-class experience for tomorrow’s scientists 18 Feature: Recruiting Success fax: (541) 737-9689 and educators. Our support staff and administrators 20 Feature: Testing Utility Pole Strength help create an environment that enhances the learning Other questions/comments: and Durability experience. Our alumni and friends provide outstanding College of Forestry scholarship and program assistance through their gifts. Student News Oregon State University And of final importance, our students have success in 154 Peavy Hall finding jobs upon graduation. Learn more about our 23 Feature: Mt. Saint Helens Field Trip Corvallis, OR 97331-5704 students and on-going events as you read through this (541) 737-4271 25 Feature: Field School issue. [email protected] One final exciting thought about our students is that Outreach and Communications this year’s freshmen will become the 100th graduating www.cof.orst.edu class in Forestry.y. We are making preparations to celebrate 27 Feature: Behind the Scenes of the New Focus on Forestryy is published by Oregon State University College of Forestry. our Centennial – 100 years of serving Oregon’s citizens, COF Recruiting DVD Our goal is to keep Forestry alumni, governments and industries. More on this milestone in friends, faculty, staff, and students Foundation News informed about the College of Forestry future issues of the Focus. and its many activities and programs. 29 Ten Eycks’ Dedication to Education Benefits Future Forest Engineers All or parts of this publication may be reproduced with credit to the OSU 30 Daniel Boone Descendent Leaves Legacy for College of Forestry. Oregon State Wildlife Research University is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity employer and complies with Section 504 of the Cover —Habitat for Humanity crew, photo by Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Gift funds Jim Funck provided to the OSU Foundation and the College of Forestry help pay for color reproduction of the Focus on Forestry. 2 Focus on Forestry COLLEGE NEWS Research at Warm Springs Reservation Olivia Pinon Olivia by Marie Oliver Confederated Tribes and the College collaborate on forestry and wood science research projects or many years, the College of Forestry fiber smaller and, in some cases, mulching it has enjoyed an excellent collaborative into the soil. Frelationship with the Confederated “In this project, we’re not utilizing Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation of the biomass, we’re just changing its size Oregon. College of Forestry students and and shape,” says Kellogg. The idea is to faculty members have engaged in several reduce ladder fuels and other high-risk outreach and research projects over the years ground fuels with the intent of reducing that have benefited the tribes and—through the risk of catastrophic wildfire. “That’s the dissemination of relevant information— the hypothesis; we really don’t know. We the forest industry as a whole. will evaluate the silvicultural treatment effectiveness for producing more fire- Mechanical Thinning resilient landscapes through modeling pre- Techniques and post-treatment conditions.” Loren Kellogg, Lematta Professor of Forest Biomass Utilization Forest Engineering, began working in Loren Kellog Warm Springs in 1991 when the tribes In addition, Kellogg and his team will be were specifically interested in thinning Kellogg. “We made recommendations on working with the Warm Springs tribes high-valued, high-elevation noble fir the best system for harvesting high-elevation to study how forest biomass might be forests. The tribes had questions about noble fir stands with minimal damage and utilized in the future. They are interested the trees’ response to thinning, the effect the lowest cost.” in discovering alternative ways to harvest that logging scars would have on future Last year, Kellogg began working with and convert forest fuels into energy. “The wood quality, and harvesting techniques PhD candidate Chad Bolding and Faculty problem now is that it’s not economically that would minimize stand damage. Research Assistant Chad Davis to research attractive or viable to utilize forest fuels Funded by the confederated tribes, mechanical approaches to reducing forest for energy,” says Kellogg. “But that’s where Kellogg and other team members studied fuels and thus the risk of wildfire at Warm research comes in. It’s an important topic these and other related questions over Springs and in other Oregon forests. The for the governor, rural communities, the a five-year period. Peter Matzka, OSU team is exploring how different mechanical forest industry, and government agencies graduate and currently assistant professor approaches compare from an economic and to develop capabilities to utilize forest at Humboldt State University, worked site impact perspective. Two state-of-the- biomass while also reducing the risk of with Kellogg on the harvesting aspects of art noncommercial mechanical systems are wildfires. One of the places that is leading the noble-fir project. being used in the study: one flexible track the way and trying to break down some of “Specifically, we provided information machine equipped with a front mounted the barriers is Warm Springs.” on alternative logging approaches, the rotating drum masticating head, and one Kellogg says that the Warm Springs economics for those different logging swing-boom style excavator equipped with forest products industry has made consid- methods, and the site and stand impacts a rotary disk mulching head. The machines erable progress in developing a plan for a from different logging systems,” says grind up dead and dying trees, making the biomass energy plant, but there are still a Winter 2006 3 COLLEGE NEWS to study production methods at the Warm Springs Forest Products Industries (WSFPI) sawmill. The Warm Springs tribes were specifically interested in how the decreased availability of larger logs will affect their production. “Like everybody else, they’re looking at what their raw material supply is going to be like in the coming years, and like everyone else they’re looking at much smaller diameters than they’re used to,” says Funck. Working closely with the WSFPI sawmill staff, the team developed a computer model of the sawmill and used it to identify processes that constrained the mill’s current production capacity. “This helped us understand why we got some of the results we did when we introduced more small-diameter timber into the model,” says Brunner. “These are things they can correct even with today’s raw materials.” The study identified several key opportunities for improving mill production. lot of researchable questions, such as: How much biomass resource Next, the team made projections about how the introduction of supply is needed to keep such a facility going? Where will this more small-diameter timber will affect the mill’s output and identified supply come from? What is the most efficient and economical way solutions to minimize those impacts. As part of the study, the team to harvest and transport the material from the forest to the plant? looked at some of the mill managers’ ideas for improving production How many new jobs can be created through biomass harvesting and found some unexpected solutions. “That’s the real value of doing and utilization? What are other benefits, such as reducing the risk of things in a computer model,” says Reeb. “We can do all of that in the wildfire and the associated environmental impacts on the landscape computer and answer all of these questions before they spend the time, from wildfires? What is the energy budget balance between effort, and dollars to make changes.” consuming energy to harvest biomass versus producing energy? Pinon and Salichon gave two well-received presentations: one to Kellogg hopes to make progress on answering these and other the mill’s administrators and one to the production workers.
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