• CONTENTS Page MAP OF FIELD UNITS 2 TIMBER SUPPLY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 4 -STATION ADMINISTRATION STAFF RESEARCH WORK UNITS AND SCIENTISTS-1972 6 TO HOUSE THE NATION 10 SOME HIGHLIGHTS of 1972 DEVELOPMENTS 12 BIOLOGICAL CONTROLS 12 CHEMICALS 13 ECONOMICS IN FOREST MANAGEMENT' ' 15 ECONOMICS IN WOOD INDUSTRY 15 FIRE 16 GENERAL 16 GENETICS 18 INSECTS 19 LOGGING 20 MENSURATION 20 PATHOLOGY • 21 PHYSIOLOGY 22 PLANT ECOLOGY 22 -RANGE ECOSYSTEMS 25 RECREATION 26 REGENERATION '26 RESIDUES 28 SOILS, SITE, AND GEOLOGY 29 SUPPLY`AND DEMAND a 30 TIMBER MANAGEMENT 32 WATER QUALITY 32 WILDLIFE AND TIMBER 34 WOOD UTILIZATION 34 ANNOTATED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BY GENERAL SUBJECTS-1972 37 LIST OF AUTHORS -. 51 The Station has now strengthened its informa- Fire Control, replaced John Dell. Dr. Tom Adams tion activities with the addition of Ms. Louise was assigned from PNW Station's marketing eco- Parker as Information Officer. Soon an attractive nomics unit; and Eldon Estep, a forest products newsletter will be distributed throughout the West utilization specialist of the Forest Service's State called What's New In Western Forest Research. We and Private Forestry program, came to us from the need to further strengthen communications with Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis- cooperators and the news media and to put re- consin. search in a more digestible form. James L. Stewart became project leader for forest disease research at Corvallis. Stewart, a plant Staff Changes pathologist, formerly headed the Alexandria For- Dr. Donald C. Schmiege returned to Juneau as est Pest Control Zone office in Pineville, Lou- program leader of our newly constituted multi- isiana. functional research project. Schmiege, who came Dr. George P. Markin came from Gulfport, from the Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Mississippi, to serve as project leader for research Experiment Station in Berkeley, bad formerly in aerial applications for forest insect control at been stationed at Juneau. Corvallis. He had been director of the U.S. Depart- Dr. Arthur R. Tiedemann has been appointed ment of Agriculture's Methods Development Lab- project leader at the Forest Hydrology Laboratory oratory and had worked extensively in a program in Wenatchee, Washington, directing efforts of the to control the fire ant. project to work on problems of water yield and Dr. John A. Neisess has been appointed as quality and erosion control in eastern Oregon and chemist for the aerial applications unit; he is a Washington. recent graduate of Oregon State University and Justin L. Smith, formerly leader of our big- will work on chemistry of insecticides. game habitat research project at La Grande, retired Dr. Gary E. Daterman has replaced Valentine in June. M. Carolin as project leader in the research unit At Seattle, Washington, Dr. Roger N. Clark, has assigned to studies of physiology and behavior of joined the wildland recreation research project, forest insects. Mr. Carolin is assisting in revision of specializing in the incentive approach to litter the book, Insect Enemies of Western Forests. control. Dr. Roger Fight is the new project leader for Dr. Hank Gratkowski has stepped down as our forest land management economics research project leader for brushfield reclamation work at work unit, replacing Dr. Dennis Schweitzer who Roseburg to devote full time to research. Dr. Ron transferred to the Intermountain Station, Mis- Stewart is acting project leader. soula, Montana. There have been several additions and changes in the forest residues reduction program since last Dr. David R. Darr is now acting project leader year. Owen Cramer transferred to the program for marketing economics research, replacing Dr. from the Pacific Southwest Station; Dr. Stewart Thomas E. Hamilton who is transferring to the Pickford transferred from the Southeastern Sta- Northeastern Experiment Station, Upper Darby, tion. Hugh McLean, from Forest Service Region 3 Pennsylvania, as Assistant Director. 5 1208 Control of Animal Damage to 1602 Soil Stabilization and Runoff Regulation Western Conifers in Conifer Watersheds of Western Crouch, Glenn L., Project Leader (0) Washington and Oregon Dimock, Edward J., II, Prin. Silviculturist (0) Rothacher, Jack S., Project Leader (C) Radwan, M. A., Prin. Plant Physiologist (0) Dyrness, C. Theodore, Prin. Soil Scientist (C) Fredriksen, Richard L., Soil Scientist (C) Swanston, Douglas N., Geologist (C) 1401 Breeding Pacific Northwest Trees Silen, Roy R., Project Leader (C) 1603 Chemicals in the Forest Environment Campbell, Robert K., Prin. Plant Geneticist (C) Norris, Logan A., Project Leader (C) Copes, Donald L., Prin. Plant Geneticist (C) Bollen, Walter B., Prin. Soil Microbiologist (C) Sorensen, Frank C., Prin. Plant Geneticist (C) Moore, Duane G., Soil Scientist (C) FOREST ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH- PEOPLE AND FOREST RESOURCES TARRANT, ROBERT F., Asst. Director (P) 1203 Silviculture of Western Forest Types 1701 Ecology and Management of Forest and (B) Related Ranges in the Pacific Northwest Dahms, Walter G., Project Leader (B) Garrison, George A., Project Leader (L) Cochran, Patrick H., Prin. Soil Scientist (B) Geist, Jon M., Soil Scientist (L) Barrett, James W., Silviculturist Seidel, Kenneth W., Silviculturist (B) Strickler, Gerald S., Plant Ecologist (L) 1801 Big-Game Habitat Research 1601 Water Yield—Improvement and (L) Garrison, George A., Acting Project Leader Erosion Control—Mid-Columbia (L) McConnell, Burt R., Prin. Plant Ecologist River Basin Forests (L) Skovlin, Jon M., Prin. Range Scientist Tiedemann, Arthur R., Project Leader (W) (L) Dealy, J. Edward, Plant Ecologist Fowler, William B., Prin. Meteorologist (W) Edgerton, Paul J., Assoc. Plant Ecologist (L) Helvey, Junior D., Prin. Soil Scientist (W) Lopushinsky, William, Prin. Plant Physiologist (W) 1901 Wildland Recreation Uses and Klock, Glen 0., Soil Scientist (W) Social Interaction Hendee, John C., Project Leader (S) 1652 Ecology of Southeastern Clark, Roger N., Recreation Alaska Forests Resource Specialist (S) Potter, Dale R., Assoc. Recreation Schmiege, Donald C., Program Leader (J) Resource Specialist (S) Harris, Arland S., Prin. Silviculturist (J) Meehan, William R., Prin. Silviculturist (J) 1902 Cooperative Forest Recreation Research— Farr, Wilbur A., Mensurationist (J) (J) University of Washington Hard, John S., Entomologist Torgersen, Torolf R., Entomologist (J) Wagar, J. Alan, Project Leader (S) 7 FOREST PROTECTION RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS-INTERIOR ALASKA WRIGHT, KENNETH H., Asst. Director (P) 1651 Ecology and Management of the Taiga 2204 Physiology, Behavior and Genetics of (Subarctic Forests)—Interior Alaska Forest Insects of the Pacific Northwest Cushwa, Charles T., Program Leader (F) Daterman, Gary E., Project Leader (C) Beckwith, LeRoy C., Prin. Entomologist (F) Carolin, Valentine M., Jr., Prin. Entomologist (C) Helmers, Austin E., Prin. Research Forester (F) Ryan, Roger B., Prin. Entomologist (C) Viereck, Leslie A., Prin. Botanist (F) Schmidt, Fred H., Entomologist (C) Zasada, John C., Prin. Silviculturist (F) Coulter, William K., Assoc. Entomologist (C) Noste, Nonan V., Assoc. Research Forester (F) 2105 Cooperative Forest Fire Science, 2208 Aerial Application of Biological Agents University of Washington and Other Materials for Martin, Robert E., Project Leader (S) Forest Insect Control Markin, George P., Project Leader (C) 2107 Forest Residues Reduction Systems Maksymiuk, Bohdan, Prin. Entomologist (C) Pierovich, John M., Program Manager (P) Neisess, John A., Assoc. Chemist (C) Adams, Thomas C., Prin. Economist (P) Cramer, Owen P., Prin. Research Meteorologist (P) McLean, Hugh R., Prin. Forester (P) 2301 Diseases of Douglas-fir, Ponderosa Pine, Pickford, Stewart G., Assoc. Research Forester (S) and Associated Species in the Pacific Northwest 2201 Population Ecology and Impacts Stewart, James L., Project Leader (C) of Forest Insects of the Pacific Aho, Paul E., Plant Pathologist (C) Northwest Harvey, George M., Plant Pathologist (C) Wickman, Boyd E., Project Leader (C) Knutson, Donald M., Plant Pathologist (C) Mason, Richard R., Prin. Insect Ecologist (C) Mitchell, Russel G., Prin. Insect Ecologist (C) Sartwell, Charles, Jr., Insect Ecologist (C) 2302 Biology of Root Diseases and Soil Microorganisms 2203 Diseases of Western Forest Insects Trappe, James M., Project Leader (C) Thompson, Clarence G., Project Leader (C) Lu, Kuo C., Prin. Microbiologist (C) Martignoni, Mauro E., Chief Microbiologist (C) Nelson, Earl E., Prin. Plant Pathologist (C) Stelzer, Milton J., Prin. Entomologist (C) Zak, Bratislav, Prin. Plant Pathologist (C) Hughes, Kenneth M., Entomologist (C) Li, Ching-Yan, Assoc. Microbiologist (C) 8 RESOURCE ECONOMICS, PRODUCTS, AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH FLORA, DONALD F., Asst. Director (P) 1301 Timber Measurement and Management 4101 Forest Survey in the Pacific Northwest Planning in the Northwest Metcalf, Melvin E., Project Leader (P) Bruce, David, Project Leader (P) Gedney, Donald R., Prin. Resource Analyst (P) Curtis, Robert 0., Prin. Mensurationist (P) Berger, John M., Mensurationist (P) Oswald, Daniel D., Resource Analyst (P) 3101 Timber Quality Research for Wall, Brian R., Economist (P) Western Softwoods Bolsinger, Charles L., Assoc. Mensurationist (F) Lane, Paul H., Project Leader (P) Henley, John W., Prin. Wood Technologist (P) 4102 Improvement of Forestry Survey Woodfin, Richard 0., Jr., Prin. Wood Techniques—PNW Technologist (P) Pope, Robert B., Project Leader (P) Pong, Wee Yuey, Wood Technologist (P) Farrenkopf, Thomas 0., Mensurationist (F) Plank, Marlin E., Assoc.