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This issue of Focus on Forestry features our students and the programs that support the varied and stimulating learning environment which they enjoy. The College has been blessed with an outstanding studentbody LuL Don MacNicoll that includes people from throughout Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, practices for the Conclave logging- from states as different geographically as Hawaii, Vermont, andFlorida, sports competition. and from over 20 foreign countries. Our students bring to theirclass- rooms and their fellow students a diverse setof experiences and back- grounds that enrich the educational experience of all. Many of our students have had significant experience in the working world and provide a "reality check" for other students and our faculty on the 1forry application of theory to real-life problems. Our College has also been blessed by people who have provided forest lands for teaching and research, state-of-the-art equipment for our laboratories and classrooms, and funds to support scholarships, fellow- Winter 1996 ships and student travel. Each year, the College hosts the Starker Lec- tures, which bring to campus national and international leadersand Volume 9, No. 2 thinkers in the natural resource professions. The large community of resource management professionals in College of Forestry Oregon also contribute to the richness of students' experiences by Oregon State University providing field study opportunities, classroom lectures, and informal mentoring. Students in a forest policy course this past year wereable to George W. Brown speak via audio and video connections with senior officials in Washing- forest Dean ton, D.C., our governor's office, and elsewhere about current policy issues. Our objective in all this is to immerse our students in the issuesand Lisa C. Mattes challenges facing our profession. By the time they graduate, ourstudents Director of Development will not only be aware of the issues but wifi have had experiencein crafting solutions. They wifi have met and worked with professionals Gail Wells who are actively engaged in the field. Editor Because of all these advantages, we believe there is nobetter place to study forestry than at Oregon State University.

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Focus on Forestry is published three times each year (Fall, Winter, George Brown Spring) by the College of Forestry, Dean, College of Forestry Oregon State University. Any or Oregon State University all parts of this publication may be reproduced with credit to the College of Forestry. Focus on Forestry Spring 1996 3 Ayearin the life ofaCollege of Forestrystudent

Of course, theygo to class, toobut many other activities beckon

The newcomers' picnic Management freshman from It's a sunny Saturday in Cupertino, Calif., was one of the 60 September, and 75 young new students who attended last fall. people are having a picnic at He felt warmly welcomed: "1 made Peavy Arboretum, the spacious park all sorts of friends that I see regularly that welcomes visitors to the College of Forestry's McDonald Research now.,, Forest. Money for muscle, fun for free The students compete in informal teams in a variety of games. Canoe- Later in the fall, the Forestry Club ists paddle madly in a race across tiny Cronemiller begins scheduling its series of fire- wood-cutting days, also at the Lakea good Research Forest. The club is the paddler can largest of half a dozen Forestry make the trip in a couple of minutes.Volleyball by the student organizations that perform community service and do a lot of Under thelake. A competitor things for fun, too. filtered shade next hits the ball high. to the lake's edge, The Forestry Club has between 40 men and women and 60 members, about a dozen of lift a long-handled whom typically show up on the axe high above their heads and heave firewood-cutting days, says Christie Reichie, the dub's president. Themen it at a target 20 feet away. Bystanders and women spend the day sawing prudently stay well off to the side; to its new students. The Ring is downed wood and umnerchantable sometimes the axe hits the bull's-eye,usually held the weekend before logs from the Forest into firewood. but more often it misses the target dasses start, so new students can They sell the wood to the public for altogether and skitters off into the start the year with the names and $125 to $145 a cord, delivered. trees. faces of their fellow students fresh in The firewood project is lucrative, Down at the shady end of the lake,their minds. earning the club about $7,500 a climbers wearing climbing spikes year. The Ring helps newcomers to "But we have heavy expenses,"says scramble up a skinned pole, an Forestry find their place in an often Christie, a Forest Management senior. exercise harking back to the days of impersonal university setting, says The main expense is the Forestry the high-climbers in the big woods. Zaven ("Zee") Ghazarian, the Forest Club's logging-sports team, which For safety, these climbers are belayed Management student who coordi- travels yearly to the regional logging- by a rope attached to the top of the nated this year's event. "1 wasa new sports competition known as Con- pole, and cushioned, if they should student last year, and the Annual clave. The week-long event (which fall, by a thick mat at the bottom. Ring was an awesome introduction toincludes several educational tours) When evening comes, the young the College. I got to sit on thegrass takes place each spring at people adjourn to the Forestry Club one of and eat lunch and talkone-on-one several forestry colleges in the West. cabin for a dinner of steak, baked with George [the Dean, George This year's Condave is at Humboldt potato, vegetarian lasagne, and berry Brown]. That told me right away State in northern California. pie. what the atmosphere of this College It wifi cost the club about $5,000 to This is the Annual Ring, the is.,' send 15 competitors from OSU. Both College's way of saying "welcome" Bryan Wall, an 18-year-old Forest men and women wifi compete in 4 on Forestry Spring 1996 student SAF chapter. "In effect we're main professional body for foresters managing a forest on a mini-scale, in the United States. Besides offering Name: Bryan Wall growing, harvesting, and planting opportunities for service work and Age: 18 trees year after year," says Marc fun, the student SAP helps prepare Major: Forest Management Ratdliff, co-chairman of Christmas forestry students for a professional Graduating: 2000 tree sales last year. "College should life by getting them acquainted with Hometown: Cupertino, Calif. not always be academicstudents local SAP professionals and involved need to do practical things, too." with SAP activities. This year Marc and the other The OSU student SAP has been members cut 70 trees and sold most named best in the nation twice in the of them to students, faculty, and the past three years, an honor conferred public. The students set up a sales by the national body. booth in the Quad, in the center of the OSU campus. They also held a U-cut day for customers who wanted to cut their own trees. Something old, The trees brought in a little over something new $700 to the SAF treasury. "Some of that goes for refreshments at the Almost since the first days of class Significant influence: His grandfather meetings," says Marc, "but most of it in October, a group of students has introduced him to Carl Stoltenberg, goes right back into the treefarm." been meeting weekly to plan a major Forestry Dean emeritus, now living Students hire professionals for the undertaking: a revival of the Forestry in Arizona. Stoltenberg had lunch shearing and the spraying but do the yearbook, the Annual Cruise. with Bryan and did some not-so- rest of the work themselves. The Cruise first appeared in 1920. It subtle lobbying on behalf of the The SAP tree farm is remarkable was produced and publishedby College of Forestry. "So here I am, for its continuity, Marc says. "We're Forestry students almost every year says Bryan. never going to get rich fromthis tree until 1975, when it expired because of farm, but it keeps the club going, financial and staffing problems. Goal:It's kind of early to tellI'm even as students come andgo." Last fall the Forestry Club raised just a freshman, after allbut it will The student SAP chapter functions the idea of reviving the Annual Cruise. probably be something with as an introduction to theSociety of David Duffy and a dozen others computers. I grew up with them, American Foresters organization, the stepped forward to help. "We and I have an aptitude."

sing1- and two-person cross-cut Bringing in the sawing (Christie's main event), as trees. Zee Ghazarian well as pole climbing, choker setting, chopping logs in half with axes, and hoists a Christmas other demonstrations of logger tree from the student prowess. 3 SAF plantation. The other main event for the club Below, Dave Duffy, is a trip to a ski resort in the Cas- left, and his Annual cades. The ski trip, usually in Janu- Cruise staff share a ary, costs about $2,400 forthe whole smile at a planning club. Students who want to take part meeting. in Conclave or the ski trip or both can earn their way by cuttingfirewood the more they cut, the less they pay.

thought it was a worthy An ongoing responsibility annual tradition, some- thing that needed to be As the holidays approach, the revived," says David, a student chapter of the Society of Forest Management senior American Foresters starts its who took on the job of annual Christmas tree sale. Stu- managing editor. "It's dents sell Douglas-firs, noble firs, something both old and and grand firs harvested from a new, something I felt I Christmas tree plantation on the could give to the school." Research Forest. Producing a book has The plantation, established proven to be a compli- more than a decade ago, is an ongoing responsibility of the cated and somewhat Focus on Forestry Spring 1996 5 daunting job, David says. The wildland and nature-based recre- tion in academic and professional life. student staff is responsible for ation. The club now has about 25 Men are particularly invited to attend everythingtaking pictures of all the active members"up from basically the conference, says co-organizer faculty, staff, and students; selling four officers a year ago," says presi- Louise Yount, a master's student in advertising and soliciting donations dent Jeff Christenson. "Our main forest ecology. to pay for the book (so far the rev- goals are to go out and see Oregon "I've absorbed women's issues enues have not met expectations); and to do community service." The with my breakfast cereal," says selling orders for the book; writing club has an ongoing project to Louise. "My mother was active in the captions and bits of copy to maintain hiking trails on the AAUW; these are the things we accompany the pictures; laying out College's Research Forest. talked about, and I'm still interested the pages on a borrowed Macintosh The Recreation Club has held in the topic. I'm not bitter or angry computer; evaluating bids from outings to Hart's Cove on the Oregonabout women's issues, but I do get printers; keeping the financial recordscoast and to Eagle Creek in the frustrated when some people try to straightall this while going to class, studying, and taking exams. The Cruise staff hopes to have the finished pages off to the printer on April 30. The book should be deliv- Bridges of ered by the end of May. communication. Louise Yount, left, and Kathleen Avina discuss the Recreationworking fort hcoming and playing Women in This year students also resurrected Forestry the almost-defunct Recreation Club,a symposium. forum for students in Forest Recre- ation Resources to experience both the working and playing aspects of

Columbia Gorge, as well asa study Name: Zaven Ghazarian (Everybody trip to the Skamania County Interpre- Name: Kathleen Avina calls me Zee") tive Center in Stevenson, Wash. The Age: 47 Age: 30 club also sponsored a three-hour Program: Doctoral student in forest Major: Forest Management class at OSU's Indoor Climbing ecology Graduating: 1998 Center, beneath Parker Stadium. A Hometown: Oceanside, Calif. four-day hike along the Rogue River is planned for spring break.

A forum for women's concerns Also in February this year, the student group Women in Forestry ii started making final plans for their second symposium, scheduled for April 20. Interesting fact about her: Kathleen The theme of the gathering is was raised by bilingual parents "Building Bridges through Commu- Frequent companion: daughter who required their children to Devin, 3 nication." Speakers will address such speak English at home. "When I diverse topics as communication was a child, Spanish-speaking differences between the sexes, Goal: "The whole reason I got into children were put in classes for the forestry was to do reforestation. mediation and consensus building, retarded." how minority concerns are (or aren't) There's something compelling heard, and the role of scientists in about growing young trees and Goal: "I plan on using my Ph.D. to nursery stockit's the fathering communicating with the public. teachpreferably closer to my instinct." Women in Forestry is a group of husband, who lives in Tillamook women and men students who are County." interested in identifying the barriers that keep women from full participa- 6 Focus on Forestry Spring 1996 but also a handful of men. The dismiss them as irrelevant or trivial." Name: Marc Ratcliff The first Women in Forestry presenters, all women and mostly scientists, shared their experiences Age: 28 symposium last fall, titled "Women Major: Natural Resources with a in ForestryStudents to Profession- about being female in a male-domi- nated enterprise. specialty in forestry education als," drew about 80 students, faculty, Graduating: 1997 and professionalsmostly women The conference was "small but

Real-life work experience. Gardner Lance, left, and Mike Shaw estimate the height of a tree on Starker Forest land.

Why he chose the College of effective," according to Kathleen Forestry: Because of its Avina, co-coordinator with Louise reputation in natural resources. Yount. "People came away feeling What I'm learning here is top. excited and energized by it." Says notch." Sara Preuitt, who is helping put Goal: To enter the master's together this spring's conference, "It program in Natural Resource was a constructive way tobring up Education and Extension at OSU. and talk about these thingsa very "The communications and positive experience." problem.solving role is where I Women in Forestry, like the other see myself." Forestry student organizations, is Name: Christie Reichie entirely student-led. "It's been super- Age: 21 exciting," says Louise Yount, "to plan Major: Forest Management these conferences with the full mentorship program is another Graduating: 1996 support of the Dean, knowing we canactivity sponsored by the student Hometown: Wilderville, a small town do whatever we want, whatever we SAF chapter: students are matched in southern Oregon think is needed." with SAF professionals in the com- munity and given guided work experience and real-life advice. "These guys have been very On-the-job mentors helpful," Blanchard says. "They saved me a lot of legwork up and On a surprisingly balmy day in down that hill." More than that, the February, two Forestry students are students have energy and initiative, deep in the woods near Alsea, of which he approves. "It's easy to helping Starker Forests' chief forester see their frame of mind,"he says. lay out a 70-foot buffer strip on either "They look for things to do and go do side of a small creek in preparation them. Some other young folks just for a forthcoming timber sale. stand around and wait to be told Mike Shaw and Gardner Lance what to do. Theseguysaren't like Why she chose forestry: "I just aren't getting paid for the work, not that." always knew I would. OSU was the unless you count the hamburgers Mike, who has been working only school I applied to." Gary Blanchard buys them for lunch. summers in the woods since high Rather, they are working to get a school, doesn't really need the Goal: "I'll graduate this spring and taste of in-the-woods forestry experi- experience, but he likes to keep his then enter the master's program in ence. hand in. In fact, it was his work with teaching here at OSU. I've always Mike, a Forest Management major, a Lake Oswego forestryfirm, Wood- wanted to teach forestry to high and Gardner, a Forest Products land Management, Inc., that led him school students." major, are being "mentored" by to pursue forestry as a career after Blanchard, a '61 College alumnus getting a business degree in 1993. who has been working for Starker Gardner, who'd started out Forests for many years. The studying construction engineering, FocusonForestry Spring 1996 7 Creating an ecosystem For help with designing a forest Name: David Duffy ecosystem, the teachers called the Age: 29 It's a bright, windy day in March, College of Forestry. Former Forest Major: Forest Management and a dozen Forestry students are Engineering professor Julie Kliewer Graduating: 1996 (from Utah State showing more than 30 elementary- and several students, including University; David is here on a school children how to plant trees. David Zahler, took it on as a commu- student exchange program) The treeshO Douglas-fir, noble nity service. Hometown: Ventnor, N.J. fir, ponderosa pine, and western The students did the initial survey redcedarare the first plantings in last spring; the Fairplay children "From the Ground Up," a 180-by-300-helped them set the corner posts. This foot facsimile of the forest ecosystemsyear David designed the planting of Oregon, recreated on an old scheme and organized the tree- playing field at Fairplay Elementary planting expedition. He has also School east of Corvallis. given the children several dassroom "We're helping them plan an on- lessons on forest ecosystems. the-ground mini-ecosystem," says Patti Ball is grateful to the SAF David Zahler, master's student in students for lending their time and Natural Resources and member of theexpertise. "It's so wonderful when I student SAF, which is helping with can do something real with my the project. students. There's a big difference The plot has a ridge of dirt down between planting a seed in a little the middle to simulate the Cascade styrofoam cup and going out and Why he came here: "Oregon State Mountains. Each side of the ridge wifiplanting a tree." is thecenter for forestry in the be planted with forest vegetation Because it's a long-term project, United States.' appropriate for the corresponding "From the Ground Up" will provide flank of the Cascades. many service opportunities for future Goal: i'd like to go on for a The idea for "From the Ground Forestry students. Says David Zahler: master's in silviculture and then Up" came from students at Fairplay "It's a great way to reach out and practice as a professional and their teachers, Patti Ball and offer our expertise and experience." foresterperhaps with the Forest Karen Eason. "Last year the students Service.' took a forest field trip," says Ball, "and they came back very interested in ecosystems. The school had aplot of ground that wasn't being used, Name: Jeff Christenson and we thought about creating a Age: 22 had never worked in the woods forest on it." Major: Forest Recreation Re- before. "I really enjoyed it, and I The goal, says Patti Ball, is to sources learned a lot," he says. "It's good to create a long-term, hands-on place Graduating: 1997 do something realnot just manipu- where students can learn about forest Hometown: Corvallis, Ore. late numbers on a piece of paper." ecosystems and the complex interac- Partly because of the mentorship tions of humans with the natural experience, he's now added a Forest world. The plot wifi eventually have Management minor to his Products a wetland, an interpretive trail, and major. greenhouses where the Fairplay students wifi grow and sell seedlings.

A forestoftheir own. Natural Resources freshman Quotable quote: "Originally I Elissa Easley helps wanted to be a forest ranger out in youngsters at the middle of nowhere, interacting with no one except other rangers. Fairplay Elementary But those folks don't exist today." School plant a tree. Goal:I hope to have an influence on setting aside lands for recre- ation use and planning the management of those lands." 8 FOCuS on ForestrySpring 1996

Name: Gardner Lance Age: 21 Major: Forest Products Hometown: Glasgow, Ore., an unincorporated hamlet on the east shore of Coos Bay.

Ending the year on a high note. Above, students and faculty chow down at the Why he chose forestry: "I started in spring barbecue and construction engineering and awards ceremony. hated ittoo much desk work. Helow, the sky's the When I thought about the kind of .irnit for these person I am, I decided forestry raduates. was for me."

Goal: To be a manager in a wood- products manufacturing plant. Name: David Zahler Age: 27 Program: Master's student in Forest Resources, specializing in Natural Choosing the best held at Peavy Arboretum. Xi Sigma Pi members also coordinate student Resource Education and Extension. nominations for two significant Graduating: 1996 In April, students gather again at Hometown: Eugene, Ore. the Forestry Club cabin for a potluck faculty honors, the Aufderheide and dinner to initiate new members into Mentor Awards. Xi Sigma P1, the national Forestry Membership also has its educa- student honorary. Xi Sigma Pi, tional and recreational aspects. Soon chartered at OSU in 1915, is the after the initiation ceremony in April, College's oldest student organization.returning and new Xi Sigma Pi Membership is selective. To be members will spend a weekend at the chosen, a student must be an upper- Warm Springs Indian Reservation in dassman or -woman with a good central Oregon, visiting the tribal grade-point average and an ethic of museum and touring the tribes'forest service. Candidates must also be lands. endorsed by 10 faculty members. Xi Sigma P1's sponsored activities Awards and goodbyes are mostly of a service nature, says The school year closes, of course, Kim Buddey, a Forest Management Significant happenings, past and with graduation. Before the major and current "forester" (presi- future: As a sophomore here, dent) of Xi Sigma Pi. Members make ceremony, Dean George Brownhosts a barbecue to honor the topgraduates Dave went to Washington, D.C. in themselves available to tutor new 1990 as the first intern from students who need it. They help host and to hand out scholarship awards Oregon to serve in the national Beaver Open House, the annual new-for the following year. Amid the aroma of sizzling meat (the soy SAF office. On June 3. David and student orientation in February, his wife, a high-school English chatting with visitors about the variety is also available), students teacher, will leave for Guatemala College of Forestry's offerings. This play volleyball, visit with old friends, and say goodbye as they leave to start to begin a two.year Peace Corps spring they will serve lunch to project. partidpants at Skills Day, a high- the summer and the rest of their lives. school logging-sports competition U Focus on Forestry Spring 1996 9 SUMMERWORK The learning doesn't stop in June

Alot of forestry education embrace ecosystem diversity, forest happens in the summer, health, wildlife habitat, watershed through jobs or internship stabifity, recreational opportunities, opportunities. In fact, every Forestry cultural and historical resources student must have school-related and timber harvest. work experience to graduate. Bonny appreciates the challenge of Tami Torres and Bonny balancing multiple objectives, espe- Cunningham worked last summer asdaily on forest land that is dose to a trainees in the Oregon Department of big city and well used by hikers, Forestry's Forest Grove office. They motorbikers, hunters, and campers. were supervised by Ric Balfour, a The Tifiamook, reforested after a Forestry alumnus and the public use series of big fires in the 1930s and coordinator for the northwest Oregon 1940s, is poised to become a major area, which indudes the historic supplier of timber within the next Tifiamook State Forest and the few decades. It also sees the heaviest Clatsop State Forest. recreational use of any state forest. Bonny, a Forest Recreation Re- "It's an important and highly sources major, helped assemble an active job to try to bring forest exhaustive inventory of recreational, managers and the public together," cultural, and scenic resources on the says Bonny. "It's a big challenge, but Clatsop State Forest. She produced also a great opportunity to produce

yarding and the role of prison work Getting a jump crews in the reforestation effort. on a career. Tami is going back to Forest Grove Left, Bonny for the summer after she graduates Cunningham this spring. She would love to work permanently with the state forestry with mapsofthe Clatsop State department, but there are no open- ings at present. "I'll probably apply Forest. Above for a city job in recreation planning, right, Tami but I'd rather work in a forested Torres at Jones setting." Creek Park on Bonny, also graduating this year, is the Tillamook not sure where she'll apply. "1 do State Forest. know that I want to be a liaison somehow between forest manage- ment and the public. I want to help people understand what good forest assessment reports on these resourcesconsensus on how public forests management can do. I want them to for 1994 and 1995, conducted public should be managed." see what I see." surveys, and worked on a GIS Tami Torres began the design (geographic information services) work for signs to be posted in two- Amy Miliward spent 12 weeks in database management plan. and three-panel kiosks in three Honduras as an unpaid intern for an Tami, a Natural Resources major campgrounds just off the Wilson ecotourism company based in with a spedalty in recreation plan- River highway. One side of the Tegudgalpa, the capital. She guided ning, began the design of interpretivepanels will have general informa- tourists on wilderness rafting trips signs for three Tifiamook camp- tionhunting and fishing regula- and wrote articles on ecotounsm for grounds, part of a major rehabilita- tions, campground etiquette, fire the local English-language newspa- tion of recreational sites there. ODF hazard information. For the other per. Her internship was funded with may use some or all of her designs side, Tami designed a layout telling a $2,500 scholarship from a student when the signs are put up. the story of the great Tifiamook fires exchange program. These summer jobs reflect the and the subsequent reforestation of Amy, a dual-degree major in ever-broadening job description of the land. She illustrated the story Forest Recreation Resources and today's forest professionals. Manag- with historic photos and vignettes International Forestry, heard about ers of public forest lands must about old-time steam-powered the opportunity through a Honduran 10 Focus on Forestry Spring 1996 graduate student at OSU who knew what I want to do." one of the guides for the company, Last year Spring, a Forest Engi- called La Moskitia Ecoaventuras. The neering major and Chippewa Indian, student gave Amy his friend's helped write a paper on carbon business card, and Amy, who speaks sequestration by forests. The other fluent Spanish, took it from there. author is an electrical-engineering She made the arrangements doctoral student whom Spring met entirely by fax, not meeting her through Native Americans in Marine employers until she had stepped off Science (NAMS), an OSU program the plane in Tegucigalpa. She'd been designed tosupportIndians who are told that Jorge Salaverri, the pursuing degrees in the sciences. company's chief guide, would be The other author, Peggy Bradley, there. "Still, I was a little nervous," had planned to present the paper in she says. "1 thought, 'What if I don't August 1995 at the Finland gathering, know him? What if he doesn't know the 20th World Congress of the me? What if he isn't even there?" But International Union of Forestry when she stepped off the plane, she Research Organizations (LUFRO). As spotted a man wearing a T-shirt bearing the company's name. "So I knew I was in the right place." The company caters mostly to wealthy foreign tourists, taking them Overseas opportunities. on rafting trips through some of the Above, Amy Miliward at wildest, most untouched tropical Tigra National Park in forests in the world, induding Honduras. Below, Spring Honduras's famous La Mosquitia, "the mosquito coast," the basin of the Rio Brad bury, back from her trip Platano in the northeast part of the to Finland. country. Amy'sfirst assignment was a five- day trip down the Rio Sico, which

Caribbean. It was a leisurely trip down the broad, warm river. The party would put in, row for a while, and stop to swim every now and then. At night they would camp on the shore. Amyserved as the on-board naturalist, pointing out and identify- places that's right on the verge. It it turned out, however, she was ing the flora and fauna for the clients,could become completely degraded." unable to go. So she persuaded a German couple on vacation from But with planning and foresight, she Spring to present the paper in her their teaching jobs. believes, the country could be helped place. "It was dense jungle, with a to accommodate tourists in an With support from the OSU Indian clearing every now and then," Amy environmentally sensitive manner. Education Office and Educational recalls. "We saw iguanas, kingfishers, Amy struggles with the ethical Opportunities Program, along with roseate spoonbills, ibises. There were dilemmas raised by the prospect of help from her father and from Dean vines, bromeliads, birds-of-paradise, outsiders coming into a country to George Brown, she made the trip to and birds called oro pendulas ["hang- tell the local people what to do. "If I Tampere, Finland, in August. ing gold"l, because of their long, do go into ecotourism," she says, "1 It was a heady journey, full of new dangling nests, which would sway inwant to do it wisely and well, re- friends and compelling ideas. It the breeze." specting the values of the people broadened her perspective on what With its lush natural beauty, living on the land." could be accomplished with a for- relatively sparse population, and estry education. mostly-rural economy, Honduras Some summer experiences aren't She always had "a somewhat offers a wealth of outdoor recre- exactly internships, but they're highlyfuzzy goal" of going back to help her ational opportunities for those who educational nonetheless. Spring tribe. "Now I know exactly what I can afford to take advantage ofthem. Bradbury presented a paper at a want to do. I want to help Indian The country has only begun to world forestry conference in Finland tribes do assessments of their forest exploit its tourism potential, and that last summer, and the experience lands that encompass both the concernsAmya little. unusual for an undergraduate economic and cultural values of the "Right now Honduras is unpre- studentchanged her life. Notonly forest." pared to meet a huge influx of did it boost her self-confidence, she U tourism," she says. "It's one of those says, "I came back knowing exactly Focus on Forestry Spring 1996 11 STUDENTSGET THEIR HANDS DIRTY AT OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

A broad curriculum and hands-onopportunities make the College a leader for the future, says this Forest Management senior

OSU offers a unique relationship In an essay for the March 1996 Many field trips to the Research between faculty and students Forest and surrounding areas ensure Journal of Forestry, Forest everyone is on a first-name basis. Management student Peter James theoretical and practical understand- This relaxed environment breaks ing of forestry-related concepts. In (P.1.) Colison writes about the valuesdown traditional barriers and creates and challenges ofhis forestry addition, the College requires that all a comfortable atmosphere in which tostudents gain at least six months' education at OSU. Excerpts are question concepts and ideas. reprinted here by permission. work experience. I participated in a All classes are taught by profes- stream survey project for the Forest sors, which allows students to Service, and last summer I worked as interact daily with people in the an intern for the Society of American Foresters in Washington, D.C. When I transferred to Oregon State University, I had no clear idea of The College curriculum recently what I wanted to be "when I grew has placed greater emphasis on up." I had always enjoyed the communication and writing courses. outdoors and been interested in This helps graduates become more environmental issues. In addition, I adept at communicating with a come from a family of loggers so I public that is increasingly confused knew about the commercial side of about natural resource issues. forest management. On the way to my appointment with some of the faculty at the College of Forestry, I The ability to synthesize informa- noticed that the clouds that had tion is crucial in any field. To meet blanketed the McDonald-Dunn this need, students develop critical Research Forest were lifting to reveal thinking skills by studying works a mature stand of Douglas-fir. This such as Aldo Leopold's A Sand must have been a good omen. When County Almanac. Natural resource I left the forestry building, I was a problems increasingly require Forest Management major excited multidisciplinary solutions. Courses about the new developments that covering soil science, wildlife man- could be pursued in our dynamic P.J. Coilson agement, and hydrology help facili- field. tate dialogue among future natural Forestry graduates today enter a resource managers. world full of uncertainties. Gone are the days when a forester's main forefront of their field. Students also *** responsibffity was to produce trees have first-hand con' ct with a broad The pace of change in forest economically for a dependent market.spectrum of cutting-edge research management wifi continue to in- Today's natural resource issues are projects. crease. In turn, administrators at OSU more complex than ever. and other schools must continually To meet the changing needs of update their programs to reflect the employment in natural resources The College of Forestry's curricu- times. By establishing a sound management, OSU has diversified its lum reflects the statement that "the resource base, an experienced faculty, curriculum to mirror current trends. best way to completely understanda a hands-on learning experience, and By adding or changing majors to concept is to get your hands dirty andcourse work that is relevant to encompass all aspects of forest do it." Course work still occupies a today's demands, OSU is positioned resource use, OSU has become a prominent role, but hands-on experi- to be a leader in forestry education. leader in educating the land manag- ence is the glue that holds all the . ers of tomorrow. theories together. Reprinted from the Journal of Forestry 94(3):6- 7, published by the Society of American Foresters, 5400 Grosvenor Lane, Bethesda, MD 20814-2198. Not for further reproduction. 12 Focus on Fon'strijSpring 199 CONFERENCE ADDRESSES FUTURE OFOREGON FORESTRY

The College hosts Oregon Boardof Forestry's kickoff planning session for 2001

A host of speakers shares Governor John Kitzhaber My vision for Oregon's forests is: views at major conference speaks of his vision for Healthy forests that provide timber, Oregon's forests water, fish, clean air, wildlife, and open spaces; where state, federal,and Qregon governor John private forest owners cooperate to Kitzhaber, College of create a sustainable flow of timber, Here are excerpts from Gov. John preserve our special places, and Forestry Dean George Kitzhaber's talk at the conference Brown, and Oregon state forester Jim restore our damaged watersheds. In "Oregon's Forests in the 21st short, it's a vision where we find that Brown were among a score of speak- Century." ers and panelists sharing their views delicate balance between protecting at a major conference held at the our environment and providing a College of Forestry in January. reliable supply of natural resources. "Oregon's Forests in the 21st Achieving this vision will require a Century" was cosponsored by the forestpolicythat encourages people College and the Oregon Board of to work togetherwhere local Forestry as part of the board's collaboration can replace posturing ongoing policy planning effort. The and conflict; where the careful conference addressed the effects of application of forest science can changes in Oregon's economy and replace courtroom decision making. demographic patterns, pressing This may sound like a tall order. But policy questions, and research needs. it can be done. And it is up to us to Speakers included researchers do it. from OSU and the PNW Research From a forest policy perspective, Station and representatives of state we are exploring nonregulatory and federal land management approaches as new science has agencies, the forest products indus- emerged and as our society has try, small-woodland owners, and changed. Regulations are important conservation organizations. forestpolicytools, but don't necessar- Kitzhaber spoke about his vision ily always have to be the first tools for Oregon's forests (please see out of the toolbox. excerpts from his talk, this page). Lasting and effective decisions Kathleen McGinty, chairwoman of about the future of Oregon's forests the federal Office of Environmental must involve all Oregonians. Our Quality, spoke on the Clinton obligation is to learn from, as well as Administration's efforts to make Governor John Kitzhaber teach, our people about our forests environmental policy compatible and about how their lives and with economic growth. Dean Brown decisions are connected with our discussed Oregon's forest situation We are here because we all forests. from a global perspective, detailing care about the remark- We must make dear what we want from Oregon's forests and who the effects of Oregonpolicydecisions able natural resources on world supply and demand. that define the Oregon character. Oneis responsible for making that hap- The conference was the first step inof these is our forests, which have pen. planning for the next revision of the been and always wifi be essential to We must take bold action to Forestry Program For Oregon, the our quality of life. As you know, I resolve forest health problems. We must seek new ways of state's governing forestpolicy describe the quality of life in Oregon document. The first FPFO was as being made up of several compo- achieving our goals. published in 1977; the latest, in 1995. nents: public safety and accountabil- We must bring our fellow The next revision is scheduled to be ity, solid educational opportunities, Oregonians along with us as we seek completed in 2001. services, and infrastructure to sup- to build this vision. port vulnerable Oregonians, jobs and . a strong economy, and a quality U environment. Focus on Forestry Spring 1996 13 "THEFUTURE ISBRIGHT"

Yet an era of turmoil, in my view, average, and it's at least five times the An interviewopens new directions, new policies, average consumption of wood new ways of dealing with natural products in the developing world. with the resources. While it's chaotic and That cannot continue. I just don't unsettling for a lot of people, it is also think it can. a time that is ripe with opportunity. So these are some of the challenges Dean If you take the long-term view, facing natural resource management which is what foresters are supposed professionals. Policies are going to be to do, you see a world that is racing driven by these external factors over On the occasionofa major toward 11 or 12 billion people. which we have almost no control. conference on the future of Oregon's Students in forestry school in the nextThere's a lot of turmoil now; we are forestry, Focus on Forestry talks five years wifi see the world's popu- in a really interesting transition stage, with Dean George Brown about how lation double by the end of their but I think the future is very bright. that future is shaping up for today's career. Over the long term, natural resource forestry students.

F0FI sometimes hear young people say they don't want to go into forestry because there's no future in it. Yet the fact that we hosted a major conference on the future of forestry says to me that there is a future in forestry.

GBWell, I certainly believe there is, or I wouldn't be here. People ask that question, I think, because of the chaos that surrounds us right now. This is an era of more turmoil in natural resource management than we've had since the turn of the century, when our National Forests were being established. Today's is in a different context, but it's that same kind of intense public and political attention to how natural resources are to be used and managed.

Coupled with that is a progres- management professionals are going sively more affluent global popula- to play a very, very key role in the tion. What this means is that people future of this globe. in even Third-World countries are Over the long term, going to be greater consumers of natural resource natural resources than they have been in the past. And if you look at a map, F0FIs a forestry education enough management pro- you see that much of this explosion into equip them for that role? fessionals are going to playa population and consumption is coming in countries that are astride GBWell, it's not sufficient, in the very, very key role in the the equator, right on top of the sense that once you get a four-year future of this globe." world's tropical forests. l'his issue of degree you're going to be prepared to deforestation, in particular tropical go on forever. A four-year degree is deforestation, is going to be with us the first stage in the development ofa even more severely in the middle of professional. What we hope to do in the next century than today. four years is to equip students with As for Americans, the per-capita some flmdamental tools that will consumption of wood products in theallow them to think rationally and U.S. is at least double the worldwide critically, to ask questions, to learn on 14 Focus on ForestrySpring 1996 their own, to deal with complex F0FWhat else does the College of scholarships and fellowships. analyses, and to communicate dearly Forestry offer students? Finally, we are surrounded by with others. We try to push them out people in forest industries and the door with an attitude of long- GBIn the first place, we have a agenciesmany of them graduates of term, lifelong interest in learning. world-dass faculty here in the the Collegewho serve as mentors. College that is intimately involved in These are people who really care F0FWhat kinds of jobs are out the science and policy questions of about the education of our students. there for a forestry graduate? the day. They bring that experience Our students are out there interacting and that involvement right into the with these professionals, who give GBJob opportunities in forestry classroom. You're not just getting very, very generously of their time to are very broad. They go from the theory; you're finding out how that help us broaden and enrich the traditionaljobs in public and theory applies to real-world, right- education of our students. private land managementto the now, real-time questions. Herethe broader-scope functions of working faculty themselves do the teaching with policy makers, people in the and the advisingthey're in the political arena, educators. Many of classrooms, and they're interacting our graduates go into business for with students as advisors and themselves as contractors in natural mentors. resource management or in some Another thing:simplyby our other kind of way. location, we are right in the middle of The per capita consump- The forestry education we offer these issues. Oregon is right in the here combines the biological and middle of the debate about how our tion of wood products in physical sciences with social sciences,nation's public forest resources are the U.S. is at least knowledge of economics andpolicy going to be managed. The students and human behavior, as well as a are able to be a part of that because double the worldwide average, strong emphasis on communication they're here, and their professors are and it's at least five times and a very long-term view of re- working on these issues. source management. That makes for a And another: we have been what it is in the developing lot of flexibility in what a graduate blessed by tremendous resources to world. That cannot continue." can do. support what we do, beginning with

F0FHow have the higher-educa- tion budget cuts affected the College?

GBThey have affected us, no question. I don't downplay the fact that the budget cuts have hurt us. We have had to dose some programs, and we have had to cut back in other ways. But we still are whole. We've been able to keep the core of our educational infrastructure intact, in part because of the generosity of donors, and we haven't lost the central part of what we do. We have trimmed in other ways to make sure that we don't degrade that core of courses that the students need. Yes, we've gone to some bigger dass sizes, but students can still get a quality education and the core courses they need to graduate in a timely manner. The other thing we stress is 12,800-acre school research forest We pledge to maintain that quality teamwork. Students start working as that's 15 minutes away. We also have for the sake of our students, because teams right from the beginning, as support from benefactors which has study in any of the fields of forestry is freshmen. It's simply a matter of allowed us to add a lot of quality to as relevant today as it ever was. necessity. You can't do the kinds of the educational experience of our things we do, in terms of resource students. This indudes funds to take . inventory or mapping or road students to professional meetings, to development or complex project support long-term field trips, and a analysis, by yourself. very, very generous program of Focus on ForestriSpring 1996 15

Haveafocus, get the skills, and be yourself

Glenda Goodwyne's life Goodwyne was raised in a large That experience opened her eyes to course was shaped by two extended family in rural Virginia. Shethe possibility of a forestry career. crucial mentors. One was remembers her upbringing as idyffic, "We learned some of the fundamen- her formidable mother, an upright, "very strict, but we had a lot of fun." tals of forestry," she says, "and we hardworking, creative, determined, There were house rules: no slang, no also had a great time." She found a and playful woman who gave Glendacursing. There was a stern aunt mentor in the project's supervisor, a the toughness she would need to who'd been in the service: "If you man named Bob Grace. "Uncle Bobby make it in a traditionally white, male messed up she'd let you know quick, took an interest in several of us," she profession. The other was a Youth fast, and in a hurry." says. "One weekend he invited us to Conservation Corps supervisor who Yet there were woods to roam in, his house and fixed us a big break- opened the door to her forestry clouds to watch: "My mother always fast. And he asked us what we career. told me, when I was bored, to look at wanted to do with our lives. I said, 'I Having achieved her childhood the clouds and imagine what I saw. want to work for the Forest Service, dreamshe's an '85 Forest Manage- She stressed being creative." ment graduate and a timber sale planner on the Mount Hood National ForestGoodwyne makes it a point to reach out to the next generation. She mentors as many young people Color blind. "1 careers talks don't careif Portland-area high schools and you're white, inviting selected students to "job black, or deep shadow" her on her daily routine. purple," she At least one of her recent proteges tells students. wifi probably end up here at the "If you come to College of Forestry. "He was from the me for help, I'll TAG (talented and gifted) program at help you." a local high school, and he really had his head on straight. I liked him immediately." At the end of a long day in the field, the young man asked Goodwyne how he could become a forest engineer. "He knew I'd gone to Oregon State. So we sat down and went over all the curriculum for all the majors." After pondering his options, the young man chose Forest Manage- ment. He's graduating from high school this spring and plans to enroll at OSU next fall. "1 wrote a letter recommending him for a scholar- ship," says Goodwyne. "I enjoy reaching out to kids, G0ODWYNE WAS A RESTLESS, drive trucks, get dirty every day, and especially in this day and age, when outdoorsy child"a doer, not a go to California.' And then I thought so many things are pulling them homebody," she says. She spent no more about it." apart. I tell them, 'What employers summers at 4-H camp as a grade The next summer she decided not want is knowledge. If you don't have schooler. In high school she was to take part in YCC. Her grand- the skills and knowledge you need, chosen to participate in a Youth mother was ifi, and Goodwyne felt get them. Become marketable. And Conservation Corps project on a she needed to stay home and care for thenjust be yourself." Virginia national forest, cutting brush and clearing trails. Continued on next page 16 Focus on ForestrySpring 1996

GOODWYNE Continued from page 15 her. "1 was glad I'd stayed home," Candidly, she says she encoun- the job. "You get into every aspect of she says, "but I longed to be back in tered attitudes on campus which she forest managementappraisals, the woods." can only ascribe to racism. One contracts, cruising, silviculture, Then the next summer, the year professor called everyone in his dass wildlife, and all the various laws and she was 17, there came a phone call. by name except her. "To him I was regulations that apply. You have to Did Glenda want a summer job on a 'you'." She had several instructors use everything you learned in national forest in California? Her "who didn't seem to know I was school." former supervisor, Bob Grace, had sethuman." Still, many professors at the Recently she's been adding it up for her. "1 was flabbergasted. College of Forestry went out of their silviculture training to her resume, in My whole body just said 'Yes." She way to help her. 'There were people response to the Forest Service's move spent the summer on the Stanislaus here who made life wonderful. toward management strategies that National Forest, working on a trail George Bengtson, Denis Lavender, are more interdisciplinary and more crew in the back country of the Dick Hermann, Ed Jensen. These are landscape-oriented. She returned this Emigrant Wilderness. good people who want to help spring to OSU to attend a module of students learn." the 1996 Silviculture Institute. SHE APPLIED AND WAS ACCEFFED AT She barely survived the first year, While she was here, she says, she Tuskegee Institute in Alabama (now but in the second year she began to noticed that the Forestry curriculum Tuskegee University), a traditionally also is changing in response to a black college, private and expensive. changing world, becoming more She had been awarded no financial team-focused and more people- aid, but, determined to make it work oriented. "When I was here, people somehow, she arrived at Tuskegee a management and teamwork weren't few days before dasses started and stressed. And we mingled very little tried to petition the financial aid with students from other depart- officer to reconsider her case. She got mentsmostly the disciplines kept nowhere. themselves separate. Both those Despairing, she called her mother things seem to be changing, and I and said she was coming home. Her think that's good." mother said, "Give me the name of that financial aid officer, will you? There were people Goonwyr'a KNOWS SHE'S A ROLE Then go back and wait in his office." here who made life model for young people, and it's a She did as she was told, and this persona she's not entirely comfort- time she got an audience. "Glenda," wonderful." able with. For one thing, shesimply said the financial aid officer, "Your can't devote as much time to these mother has a way with words. Have students as she would like. a seat." More pertinently, people often Goodwyne says, "1 never did find assume she isonlyinterested in out what she said to him. But I left turn things around. "I made a pact mentoring black or female students. that office with more money than I with myselfeach term I was going The reality is that she resists race- or needed." top my GPA up a little more." Shesex-based labels, however benignly She loved Tuskegee and did well, got her degree in 1985, graduating they are applied. "I have no prefer- making the honor roll and playing onwith a B-plus average. ence as to whom I help," she says. "1 the basketball team. She completed She had been working summers at don't go into innercities and make the two-year forestry preparation the PNW Research Station in Port- my pitch to black students over program and decided to transfer to land, and after graduation she was everyone else." OSU. She had done a summer hired for a permanent job in timber The key qualification, she says, is internship at the PNW Research inventory and analysis. After four that students be thinking about and Station in Portland, "and I knew I years there, she decided she wanted preparing for their future. 'They wanted to be in the land of the to work in the management side. She need to have a focus. If they do, I'll Douglas-fir." applied for two jobsat the Mount jump on their bandwagon. Then, I She found a very different aca- St. Helens National Monument and don't care if they're white, black, or demic environment here. OSU on the Mount Hood National For deep purple; if they come to me for seemed huge compared to Tuskegee. estand was offered both. She chose help, they'll get it." The forestry courses were highly Mount Hood. technical. Professors were more Today she works on the Estacada . impersonal than she was used to, and Ranger District, writing environmen- the atmosphere more competitive. In tal assessments for timber sales. She brief, she felt unprepared. enjoys the variety and creativity of Focus on Forestry Spring 1996 17

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Good teaching drawson the heart and the soul

An awakening sense of his decisions was to improve the teaching vocation led Ed specialist's understanding of his or Jensen down pathways he her own discipline. Now the whole didn't foresee. By a synergy that world of forest management is more some might call coincidence, his interdisciplinary, and decisions are journey brought him to a place with amore often made collaboratively. It's long tradition of innovation in this interaction with others that forestry education. becomes the dominant educational Jensen, an assistant professor in force, and that changes the whole the Forest Resources department, has educational paradigm. Our new goal a reputation as a good teacher and wifi be to improve people's ability to mentor. The students have honored work together, and to help them him twice with the yearly develop thoughtful, effective, and Aufderheide Award for excellence in reflective approaches to managing teaching. forests." He teaches undergraduate classes in dendrology, tree identification, JENSEN'S INTEREST IN THE TEACHING OF and forest ecology and holds gradu- forestry was itself a learning process. ate seminars on the design, analysis, Born and raised in an Illinois farm and evaluation of instruction. He town, Jensen at first majored in formally advises about 25-30 Forest engineering at the University of Management students, helping them Illinois. "High school placement tests schedule classes and understand their degree requirements. He also infor- mally guides another 10 or 15, students who seek him out for advice on careers and planning for the Finding the future. missing piece: "1 "They'll ask me questions like, enjoyed teaching 'Am I in the right major? How do I and wanted to do prepare for a career? Which summer more." Below, Ed job should I take? How can I improve Jensen consults my abilities in this particular area?" with student Amy says Jensen. "It's at those times that advising is most rewarding." Miliward. Jensen is director of the Forestry Media Center, which is devoted to helping forestry professors become better teachers, and director of the Silviculture Institute, a yearly con- tinuing-education workshop aimed at mid-career forestry professionals. told me that I should major in math he says. "It was like a religious Next year the Silviculture Institute or engineering," he says, "and of conversionone day you feel one will be replaced by the Natural course I believed them." When way, and the next day you feel Resources Institute, which Jensen willengineering proved less than satisfy- completely different. It changed my direct and for which he's now ing, he switched to mathematics. He heart's desire." helping to develop the curriculum. continued for another two years, Back at school for his senior year, The change comes in response to doing well in math but still feeling Jensen switched to forestry, to the the rapidly shifting job description of unsatisfied. dismay of a faculty advisor. "He said, a professional forester, Jensen says. Then chance intervened in the 'You're crazy; you'll never find a "In the past, individual specialists form of a summer job on job." Like many another man in love, made most natural resource deci- Washington's Olympic Peninsula. "1 sions, and the way to improve those fell in love with old-growth forests," Continued on page 19 18 Focus on ForestrySpring 1996

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the committee that organizes the Kuiios FOR FACULTY STARKER LECTURES lectures. Named after T.J. and Bruce TLJRN1O Starker and made possible by family Bob Leichti, Forest Products gifts in their memory, the lectures associate professor, and graduate encompass the widest possible range student Dan Tingley beat 99 other Forestry 406/506, offered every fallof voices on the widest possible range entries to win this year's Charles term, is a course with an unusual set of issues. "They don't mind if some- Pankow Award for innovation, given of requirements: thing is controversial or different," by the Civil Engineering Research Read a paper by a distinguished Shelby says, "as long as it's high- Foundation. Their winning entry was natural resources leader, quality and things get balanced in the titled "Glued-laminated timber Fire questions at him or her in big picture." reinforced with fiber-reinforced dass, Bond Starker, president of Starker plastic." The material has received Attend a public lecture by the Forests, Inc., confirms this. "Our idea the first-ever major building code distinguished leader, was to provide a forum for new approval for a glu-lam material Have dinner with the lecturer ideas, and I certainly see that happen- reinforced with fiber-reinforced afterward, ing. The lectures are achieving what plastic (FRP), according to the Repeat this sequence four times we wanted them to achieve." Mem- selection committee. during the quarter. bers of the Starker family come to Glu-lam with FRP leads to fin- The class is associated with the every lecture and to the dinner proved performance, reduced fiber Starker Lectures, now entering their afterward. consumption, and enhanced struc- 11th year at the College. The Starker Each year's series has a theme. In tural safety and reliability. Lectures are offered free to the public 1985 the speakers, who included every fall. Students who take the Marion Clawson, former head of class get college credit for exposure toBLM, and C.W. Bingham, an execu- FoiusiiwFINISHES FIRSTa mind-broadening variety of view- tive with Weyerhaeuser, addressed points on natural resource issues. the role of forest resources in the IN FOOD DRiVE Over the past decade the lectures future of the Pacific Northwest. In have been a forum for a range of 1990 the theme was sustainable With a total donation of 38,491 timely topics presented by a host of forestry; speakers included Robert G. pounds of food, the College of distinguished guestsan assistant to Lee, a University of Washington Forestry finished on top in the Oregon's governor (Gail Achterman, sociologist, and Norman E. Johnson, University's annual food drive. The who spoke twice), the publisher of a a Weyerhaeuser scientist and vice- Forest Engineering department conservationist newspaper (Ed president. In 1994, speakers ad- finished first with 16,606 pounds of Marston), and a U.S. District Court dressed management and biological food. The Dean's office staff came in judge (James A. Burns) all have givenconservation, with William Libby, a second with 9,977 pounds. well-attended lectures. University of California forestry The food drive at the College was Jack Ward Thomas also spoke professor, on the role of forest stretched over several months of baketwiceonce in 1987, when he was a plantations in delaying species sales, silent auctions, soup luncheons,Forest Service wildlife biologist extinctions, and Charles Wilkinson, and individual coupon-clipping working in LaGrande, and again in University of Colorado law professor, enterprise. The College's contribution1993, days after he had been named on preserving Anasazi cultural sites. came within $250 of last year's Forest Service chief. Some of the lectures have been donation from the entire University. More recently, an outspoken televised by Oregon Public Broad- All donations go to Linn-Benton property-rights advocate, William casting. Some have attracted over- Food Share, a community food bank. Perry Pendley, shared the 1995 series flow crowdsfor example, the with a well-known essayist, Terry second Jack Ward Thomas lecture Tempest Williams, whose talk and the presentation by conservation- displayed a decidedly conservationistist writer Marc Reisner. All have bent. provided an opportunity for students "The Starkers have made it dear to interact one-on-one with a noted that they're willing to try different guest, both in dass and informally things," says Bo Shelby, Forest Resources professor and chairman of Continued on next page Focus on ForestrySpring 1996 19

JLNSEN Continued from page 17 Jensen didn't want to hear about Bob Reichart, a retired education "because no models for evaluating a practical matters. "1 didn't switch professor whom Dean W.F. program like this existed." Jensen into forestry to get a job," he says. "1 McCulloch brought to the School of studied the Institute as an anthro- did it to learn about forests." And Forestry, pioneered, among other pologist might study a foreign finally the decision felt rightone- things, the use of audiovisual materi- culturehe took the course, lived half of his vocation had fallen into als for teaching. with the participants, observed them, place. Jensen came in as assistant directorstudied them, noted how well or After he got his degree, he workedof the FMC in 1976. In 1979 he poorly they were picking up the for a year as research and teaching became director. "It was a hard job," curriculum, how effectively they assistant for a forest ecologist at the he says candidly. "1 didn't feel well seemed to be applying it. University of Illinois. Part of his job equipped; it wasn't exactly what I His findings led to positive was to develop slide-tape presenta- had envisioned myself doing." changes in the Institute. "It started tions on the ecological regions of Something was still missing. the whole discussion about what is North America. Although he didn't Then in 1980 Professor Dale Bever effective instruction? what are know it at the time, that task turned retired. Jensen offered to take over instructional goals?how do you out to be crucial career training. Bever's dendrology classes. He measure your progress toward them? He went on for a master's in forest found, not really to his surprise, that It's a continual process of monitoring ecology at the University of Washing-he liked teaching and was good at it. and correction that's continued to this ton, finishing in 1976. He began "Many university professors don't day," a process that is now being looking for a job as an agency land actually enjoy teaching," he says. "I designed into the new Natural manager. A fellow graduate student found that I did enjoy it, and I Resources Institute. pointed out an opportunity at the wanted to do more." In 1991 Jensen created the gradu- OSU College of Forestry, which was He'd found the missing piece in ate program in Natural Resource looking for an assistant director of thehis career. And with this moment of Education and Extension. "Of all the Forestry Media Center. They wanted clarity came another: "To be a things I've done here, I'm proudest of someone with a background in complete part of this university this program," he says, "because I'm forestry plus experience in develop- environment, I needed a Ph.D." preparing students for careers in an ing educational materials. Because he was interested in both area that I think is very important. Jensen remembered the slide-tapesforestry and teaching, there was no It's been invigorating for me to work he'd developed at the University of ready-made program for him to step with these students. I appreciate their Illinois. He applied for the job and into. "1 looked around the country, quick minds, their curiosity, their got it. but I couldn't find anything that met unique personalities. I just can't tell The Forestry Media Center was my needs. As a Ph.D. program, you how stimulating it is to work one fruit of the innovations in teach- forestry education was unheard of." with them." ing that had begun at OSU in 1962. So Jensen developed his own program. He enlisted the help of John WiMAKES A GOOD TEAcI-IER? Gordon, then head of the Forest Jensen, who enjoys that reputation, Science department, and Bill reflects on this question a lot. "I care Emmingham, Exten,ion specialist in about my subject matter, but more over a shared meal. Forest Science. Both agreed that than that, I care about my students. I The Starker Lectures are publishedforestry education was an important care what they learn, how they learn, every year by the College of Forestry. and virtually uncharted field. what's going on in their lives. I'm This year all the lectures have been Because Jensen was studying and especially open, I think, to students collected into a tenth-anniversary working full time, the doctorate took who are struggling with their direc- publication. seven long years. For his doctoral tion in life. Because of my own "My view of these lectures," says project, he devised a method to experience, I'm sympathetic to the retired professor Bob Buckman, who evaluate the effectiveness of the need to explore, to look around... helped organize them during the Silviculture Institute, which had beenGood teaching is much, much more early years, "is that they're a going for five or six years without than conveying information. 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