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Light in Relation to the Growth of Douglas-fir

Purpose

Determine which intensity of light is optimum for the growth of different species of trees.

Project Start Date
 
Project End Date
1926-01-01
Related Publications
Hawkins, Leroy. Light in Relation to the Growth of Douglas-fir. Report, 1926, Oregon State College, School of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon.
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • light
  • light relation
  • light intensity
  • tree growth
  • optimal growth
  • various species
  • photosynthesis
  • Leroy Hawkins
  • intensity
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSC- Forestry
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Hawkins, Leroy
Role
PI
Collaborators
N/A
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2

A Comparative Survey of the Adaptability and Rate of Growth of the Ponderosa Pine Plantation at the McDonald Forest

Purpose

Compare adaptability and rate of growth on the McDonald Forest Plantation with measurements taken in preceding years on that plantation and also compared with plots on the Deschutes, Whitman, and Columbia National Forests. Also compared with Washington S

Project Start Date
 
Project End Date
1947-03-01
Related Publications
Merritt, James. A Comparative Survey of the Adaptability and Rate of Growth of the Ponderosa Pine Plantation at the McDonald Forest. March 1947, B.S. Thesis, Oregon State College, School of Forestry.
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • comparative
  • survey
  • adaptibility
  • adaptable
  • adapt
  • rate
  • growth
  • ponderosa pine
  • pinus ponderosa
  • plantation
  • plantations
  • McDonald
  • McDonald-Dunn
  • Dunn
  • growing
  • Deschute
  • Deschutes
  • Whitman
  • Columbia
  • National
  • Washington
  • James Merritt
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSC- School of Forestry
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Merritt, James C.
Role
PI
Collaborators
N/A
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38
Project ID
38

Investigation of the 4x4 and 8x8 ft. Douglas-fir Spacing Plots on the McDonald Forest

Purpose

Compare growth reaction of site quality III land versus site quality IV land growth rates. Investigate growth characteristics on the spacing plots at McDonald Forest.

Project Start Date
 
Project End Date
1948-06-01
Related Publications
Kirchner, Walter. Investigation of the 4x4 and 8x8 ft. Douglas-fir Spacing Plots on the McDonald Forest. B.S. Thesis, June 1948, Oregon State College, School of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon.
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • 4x4
  • 8x8
  • planting
  • plant
  • spacing
  • space
  • growth reaction
  • site quality
  • site index
  • growing
  • SQ
  • SI
  • III
  • IV
  • characteristics
  • Walter Kirchner
  • four by
  • eight
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSC- Forestry
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Kirchner, Walter
Role
PI
Collaborators
N/A
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41
Project ID
41

Space requirements and Yields for Free Growing Douglas-fir Trees

Purpose

What density should be carried throughout various phases of the rotation to produce maximum returns from an acre of land? 60 trees free of competition were measured for DBH, total height, age @ breast height, and crown diameter. Yield table constructed,

Project Start Date
 
Project End Date
1956-06-01
Related Publications
Brewer, James E. Space requirements and Yields for Free Growing Douglas-fir Trees. Master of Forestry Thesis, June, 1956, Oregon State College, School of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon.
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • space
  • spacing
  • requirements
  • requirement
  • yield
  • yields
  • growth
  • growing
  • douglas fir
  • douglas-fir
  • pseudotsuga menziesii
  • wolf
  • open-grown
  • wolfy
  • open
  • density
  • maximum
  • optimal
  • return
  • returns
  • rotation
  • rotations
  • max
  • James Brewer
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSC- Forestry
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Brewer, James E.
Role
PI
Collaborators
N/A
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52

Comparison Between the Growing Seasons of Western Yellow Pine and Douglas-fir

Purpose

Measurements of the height growth made by 40 seedlings which were 5 years old, 20 Douglas-fir, 20 Western Yellow Pine

Project Start Date
1925-04-16
Project End Date
1926-08-06
Related Publications
McGuire, K.B. Comparison Between the Growing Seasons of Western Yellow Pine and Douglas-fir. Senior Thesis, August 1926, Oregon State College, School of Forestry.
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • Western Yellow Pine
  • Growing Season
  • Growing seasons
  • comparison
  • Douglas fir
  • Douglas-fir
  • Pseudotsuga menziesii
  • Ponderosa pine
  • Pinus ponderosa
  • Douglas
  • tree growth
  • seedling growth
  • McGuire
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSC- School of Forestry
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
McGuire, K.B.
Role
PI
Collaborators
N/A
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1

Hybridization in Douglas-fir and Super seedling Grafts

Purpose

To study the survival and growth of hybridized Douglas-fir and super seedling grafts.

Project Start Date
1955-01-01
Project End Date
1991-06-30
Related Publications
Ching, K.K., and D. Bever. Provenance Study of Doug-fir in the Pacific Northwest Region. 1. Nursery Performance. Silvae Genetica 9: 11-17. 1960.
Ching, K.K., and P.N. Hinz. Provenance Study of Douglas-fir in the Pacific Northwest Region. 3. Field Performance at age Twenty Years. Silvae Genetica 27: 229-233. 1978.
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • Hybrid
  • Hybridization
  • Douglas fir
  • douglas-fir
  • Pseudotsuga menziesii
  • super seedling
  • graft
  • grafts
  • planting
  • viability
  • survival
  • growth
  • growing
  • hybridize
  • Kim Ching
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Ching, Kim K.
Role
C
Collaborators
N/A
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49
Project ID
49

Abies Hybrid Plantation

Purpose

Site was planted with hybrid Abies sp. from a cross between Abies concolor and Abies grandis. Area is monitored to study the growth characteristics of the seedlings.

Project Start Date
1969-09-01
Project End Date
1999-12-31
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • Hybrid
  • Abies concolor
  • white fir
  • Colorado fir
  • conifer
  • Pinaceae
  • Abies
  • Abies grandis
  • grand fir
Additional Information
Currently Active
Yes
Agency
OSU-Botany
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Zobel, Donald B.
Role
C
Collaborators
N/A
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69
Project ID
69

Seedling Response to Light

Purpose

Seedlings will be transplanted at the nursery beneath light shelters, and response monitored during the study period.

Project Start Date
1977-01-01
Project End Date
1978-09-30
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • seedling
  • seedlings
  • light
  • lights
  • lighting
  • brightness
  • bright
  • sun
  • transplanted
  • transplant
  • Alan Berg
  • Ernest Del Rio
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Berg, Alan
Role
C
Collaborators
Del Rio, Ernest
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107
Project ID
107

Root Wrenching

Purpose

Root wrenching of Douglas-fir seedlings- outplanting trial thinning, height measuring

Project Start Date
1977-01-01
Project End Date
1986-06-30
Related Publications
Duryea, M. L. and D.P. Lavender. Water Relations, Growth, and Survival of Root-Wrenched Douglas-fir Seedlings. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 12 (3): 545-555. 1982.
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • Root
  • roots
  • wrenching
  • wrench
  • douglas-fir
  • douglas fir
  • pseudotsuga menziesii
  • outplanting
  • planting
  • thinning
  • thin
  • height
  • Mary Duryea
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Duryea, Mary L.
Role
C
Collaborators
N/A
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110
Project ID
110

Comparison of Seedling Planting Density on Growth of Douglas-fir Seedlings

Purpose

Project is designed to compare two spacing regimens for planting of Douglas-fir seedlings. Clusters of Douglas-fir trees were planted at 25' spacing and compared to a conventional 8'x8' spacing. Interplanting with alder to test soil enrichment effects.

Project Start Date
1979-03-15
Project End Date
1989-12-31
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • seeds
  • seed
  • seedling
  • seedlings
  • planting
  • density
  • densities
  • growth
  • growing
  • douglas-fir
  • douglas fir
  • pseudotsuga menziesii
  • regimens
  • space
  • spacing
  • trial
  • interplant
  • interplanting
  • alder
  • alders
  • alnus
  • enrichment
  • enrich
  • William Emmingham
Additional Information
Currently Active
Yes
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Emmingham, William H.
Role
C
Collaborators
N/A
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138
Project ID
138

Seedling Growth Study

Purpose

Seedling growth study. Transplanting 700 2-0 Douglas-fir, 700 2-1 grand fir, and 700 red alder wildings.

Project Start Date
1980-04-01
Project End Date
1983-06-30
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • Seeds
  • Seed
  • seedling
  • seedlings
  • growth
  • growing
  • grow
  • douglas-fir
  • douglas fir
  • pseudotsuga menziesii
  • grand fir
  • abies grandis
  • transplant
  • transplanting
  • red alder
  • alnus rubra
  • michael newton
  • genetics
  • genes
  • genetic
  • gene
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Newton, Michael
Role
C
Collaborators
N/A
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147
Project ID
147

Broadleaved Species Demonstration Plots

Purpose

Broadleaved species demonstation plots of red alder, poplar, eucalyptus.

Project Start Date
1980-04-01
Project End Date
1990-12-31
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • broad
  • broadleaved
  • leaved
  • demonstration
  • demonstrate
  • red alder
  • alnus rubra
  • poplar
  • eucalyptus
  • Kim Ching
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Ching, Kim K.
Role
C
Collaborators
N/A
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152
Project ID
152

Regulation of Nitrogenase Activity

Purpose

Isolate endophyle from nodules of nitrogen fixing species and test effects on growth of clonal hosts (cooperative with the Weyerhaeuser Co.)

Project Start Date
1982-04-01
Project End Date
1983-06-30
Related Publications
Perry, David; Choquette, Carolyn, and Schroeder, P. Nitrogen Dynamics in Conifer-Dominated forests with and without hardwoods. Canadian Journal of Forest Research Vol. 17, 1434-1441, 1987
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • Regulate
  • regulation
  • nitrogen
  • nitrogenase
  • activity
  • activities
  • endophyle
  • endophytes
  • isolate
  • isolated
  • nodule
  • nodules
  • fix
  • fixing
  • clone
  • clonal
  • Weyerhaeuser
  • John Gordon
  • David Perry
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU/Weyerhaeuser
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Gordon, John
Role
C
Collaborators
Perry, David A.
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186

FIR Project

Purpose

Will be cutting "cookies" out of stems at each whorl, up to 7 or 8 whorls below live crown base.

Project Start Date
1982-12-15
Project End Date
1983-01-07
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • FIR
  • project
  • projects
  • felled
  • fell
  • tree
  • trees
  • cookie
  • cookies
  • whorl
  • whorls
  • stem
  • stems
  • live
  • crown
  • base
  • David Hann
  • Douglas Maguire
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Hann, David
Role
C
Collaborators
Maguire, Douglas A.
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197
Project ID
197

The Morphology and Field Performance of Top Pruned Douglas-fir Seedlings

Purpose

Outplanting study for nursery cooperative study on top pruning of 2-0 Douglas-fir seedlings.

Project Start Date
1983-09-01
Project End Date
2003-12-31
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • Morphology
  • field
  • performance
  • prune
  • pruning
  • pruned
  • douglas-fir
  • douglas fir
  • pseudotsuga menziesii
  • seed
  • seeds
  • seedling
  • seedlings
  • nursery
  • nurseries
  • cooperative
  • cooperatives
  • Steven Omi
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Duryea, Mary L.
Role
C
Collaborators
Omi, Steven
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217
Project ID
217

Growth and Yield for Eastern and Western Oregon

Purpose

Site modification: 1. Artificially shade four branches/tree; 2. Prune off four branches/tree; 3. Clip all secondary branches off four primary branches/tree; 4. Destructively sample all four trees at termination of the experiment. Objective is t

Project Start Date
1984-03-08
Project End Date
1988-09-01
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • Growth
  • growing
  • yield
  • yields
  • east
  • eastern
  • west
  • western
  • Oregon
  • bole
  • encloses
  • enclose
  • dead
  • branch
  • branches
  • Douglas Maguire
  • John Tappeiner
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Maguire, Douglas A.
Role
C
Collaborators
Tappeiner, John
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213
Project ID
213

Establishment and Early Seedling Growth of Red Alder

Purpose

Project will investigate factors affecting seedling establishment and early seedling growth of red alder. Plots in clearcut and in forested areas are exposed to different levels of soil disturbance and then broadcast seeded with red alder. Survival and

Project Start Date
1985-12-01
Project End Date
1987-09-30
Related Publications
Haeussler, Sybille. Germination and First-Year Survival of Red Alder Seedlings in the Central Coast Range of Oregon. MS Thesis, Forest Science, Oregon State UNiversity. 1987
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • establishment
  • early
  • seed
  • seeds
  • seedling
  • seedlings
  • growth
  • growing
  • red alder
  • alnus rubra
  • clearcut
  • clear
  • soil
  • soils
  • disturbance
  • disturbances
  • seeded
  • Sybille Haeussler
  • John Tappeiner
  • Spaulding
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Haeussler, Sybille
Role
C
Collaborators
Tappeiner, John
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235
Project ID
235

Predicting Bigleaf Maple Regrowth from Preharvest Conditions

Purpose

This study will: 1.) Develop regression models that predict the number, size,and growth rate of bigleaf maple clumps based on the number and size of clumps prior to harvest. 2.) Determine the influence of preharvest cutting treatments, time of treatment

Project Start Date
1989-05-15
Project End Date
1995-10-31
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • Predict
  • predicting
  • bigleaf maple
  • acer macrophyllum
  • preharvest
  • pre
  • harvest
  • harvesting
  • sprout
  • sprouting
  • regression
  • John Tappeiner
  • Maxwell
  • Bruce
  • Zasada
  • John
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Tappeiner, John
Role
C
Collaborators
Maxwell, Bruce; Zasada, John
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270
Project ID
270

Cottonwood Culture in the Willamette Valley

Purpose

1. Demonstrate intensive cottonwood culture techniques. 2. Demonstrate the importance of weed control in cottonwood culture. 3. Investigate the performance of selected cottonwood clones under the climate conditions of the central Willamette River vall

Project Start Date
1990-06-01
Project End Date
1999-01-01
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • cottonwood
  • populus
  • cotton
  • wood
  • culture
  • cultures
  • willamette valley
  • WV
  • technique
  • techniques
  • weed
  • control
  • weeds
  • clone
  • clones
  • William Emmingham
  • Fletcher
  • Richard
  • Hibbs
  • David
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU (and Fletcher, Rick, Extension Agent)
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Emmingham, William H.
Role
C
Collaborators
Fletcher, Richard; Hibbs, David
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280
Project ID
280

Air layering of Pacific Yew

Purpose

A small number (20-60) of vigorous Pacific Yew branches will be girdled about 12" from the end. Half will be randomly selected for treatment with "Rootone". Half will be left untreated. All will be packed with moist sphagnum moss and wrapped in plastic

Project Start Date
1991-03-01
Project End Date
1992-03-01
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Growth & Yield
Keywords
  • air
  • layer
  • layering
  • pacific yew
  • taxus brevifolia
  • cuttings
  • cutting
  • planting
  • root
  • roots
  • rooting
  • bed
  • beds
  • Rootone
  • chemical
  • chemicals
  • sphagnum
  • moss
  • Mike Milota
  • yews
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
Pacific Northwest Research Station
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Milota, Mike
Role
PI
Collaborators
N/A
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290
Project ID
290

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