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Evaluation of the Effects of Certain Nursery Practices Upon Douglas-fir Seedling Vigor

Purpose

Evaluation of the effects of certain nursery practices on Douglas-fir seedling vigor. Seedlings were planted on two dates, November of 1982 and January of 1983.

Project Start Date
1982-10-01
Project End Date
1985-12-31
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Nurseries
Keywords
  • nursery
  • nurseries
  • practice
  • practices
  • douglas-fir
  • douglas fir
  • pseudotsuga menziesii
  • seedlings
  • seedlings
  • seeds
  • seed
  • vigor
  • Denis Lavendar
  • Douglas McCreary
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Lavender, Denis P.
Role
C
Collaborators
McCreary, Douglas D.
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203
Project ID
203

Maple Control Trial

Purpose

Cut maple stumps will be treated with herbicides (Garlon 3A, Garlon 4, 2,4-D) throughout summer 1983; sprout clumps will be sprayed with Triclopyr plus 2,4-D as above.

Project Start Date
1983-05-20
Project End Date
1984-06-30
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Chemical Control
Keywords
  • Maple
  • Acer
  • control
  • trial
  • stump
  • stumps
  • herbicide
  • herbicides
  • Garlon
  • sprout
  • sprouting
  • Triclopyr
  • spray
  • sprayed
  • spraying
  • sprays
  • Diane White
  • Bruce Kelpsas
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Kelpsas, Bruce R.
Role
C
Collaborators
White, Diane E.
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199
Project ID
199

Ash Thinning Study

Purpose

The objective of this study is to gain information on the response of ash to thinning. The thinning was established in 1983. Growth measurements were taken every year through 1988.

Project Start Date
1983-07-01
Project End Date
2003-12-31
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Thinning
Keywords
  • Ash
  • fraxus
  • thin
  • thinned
  • thinning
  • growth
  • response
  • David Hibbs
  • Richard Fletcher
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Fletcher, Richard
Role
C
Collaborators
Hibbs, David
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216
Project ID
216

Seedling Fertilization Study

Purpose

Testing whether fall fertilization results in more favorable water relations after outplanting.

Project Start Date
1983-11-01
Project End Date
1984-10-31
Related Publications
Margolis, H.A., and R.H. Waring. Carbon and Nitrogen Allocation Patterns of Douglas-fir Seedlings Fertilized with Nitrogen in Autumn. 1. Overwintering Metabolism. Canadian Journal of Forest Res 16 (5):897-902. 1986
Margolis, H.A., and R.H. Waring. Carbon and Nitrogen Allocation Patterns of Douglas-fir Seedlings Fertilized with Nitrogen in Autumn. 2. Field Performance. Canadian Journal of Forest Res 16 (5):903-909. 1986
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Fertilization
Keywords
  • seed
  • seeds
  • seedling
  • seedlings
  • fertilize
  • fertilization
  • water
  • relations
  • out
  • planting
  • outplanting
  • fertilizer
  • Hank Margolis
  • Richard Waring
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Margolis, Hank A.
Role
C
Collaborators
Waring, Richard H.
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209
Project ID
209

Study and Evaluation of Roadside Herbicide Spraying

Purpose

Roadsides will be sprayed by hand with herbicides; varying rates of Dowco 433 (fluroxypyr), Garlon 4 and Roundup. Areas will be evaluated 1984 and 1985 for brush control.

Project Start Date
1984-08-01
Project End Date
1985-11-01
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Chemical Control
Keywords
  • Road
  • roads
  • roadside
  • herbicide
  • herbicides
  • spray
  • spraying
  • sprays
  • brush
  • control
  • controls
  • Dowco
  • fluroxypyr
  • garlon
  • roundup
  • Bruce Kelpsas
  • Michael Newton
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Kelpsas, Bruce R.
Role
C
Collaborators
Newton, Michael
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218
Project ID
218

Chemical Thinning of Douglas-fir and Hardwood Control

Purpose

Inject (hack and squirt) approximately 30 bigleaf maple, madrone, and small Douglas-fir (less than 6") with ARSENAL herbicide, GARLON 3A, 2,4-D. (Five to six trees treated during four times.)

Project Start Date
1985-01-29
Project End Date
1985-12-31
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Chemical Control
Keywords
  • chemical
  • chemicals
  • thin
  • thinning
  • thinned
  • douglas-fir douglas fir
  • pseudotsuga menziesii
  • hardwood
  • control
  • controlling
  • bigleaf maple
  • maples
  • acer
  • madrone
  • herbicide
  • herbicides
  • arsenal
  • garlon
  • Bruce Kelpsas
  • Diane White
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Kelpsas, Bruce R.
Role
C
Collaborators
White, Diane E.
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219
Project ID
219

Effects of Fumigant Protection on Compartmentalization of Wounds by Douglas-fir

Purpose

24 Douglas-fir trees will be selected from the forest and treated with small quantities of soil fumigants injected through the bole. After wounding, the trees will be cut down and examined.

Project Start Date
1985-03-01
Project End Date
1988-03-01
Related Publications
Morrell, J, Smith, S, Newbill, M.A., Graham, R.D. Reducing internal and external decay of untreated Douglas-fir poles: a field test. Forest Products Journal 36 (4): 47-52, 1986.
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Chemical Control
Keywords
  • fumigation
  • fumigant
  • protection
  • compartmentalization
  • compartmentalize
  • wound
  • wounds
  • douglas-fir douglas fir
  • pseudotsuga menziesii
  • soil
  • soils
  • inject
  • bole
  • Robert Krahmer
  • Jeffrey Morrell
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Krahmer, Robert
Role
C
Collaborators
Morrell, Jeffrey J.
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226
Project ID
226

History of Two Mixed Stands in McDonald Forest

Purpose

Objective of project is to reconstruct the stand history of two undisturbed Douglas-fir dominated stands by mapping the present stand structure, determining age distribution of all tree species, and examining regeneration patterns of Douglas-fir, grand fi

Project Start Date
1985-05-22
Project End Date
1985-06-06
Related Publications
Carlton, Gary C. Structure and Gap Dynamics of a Mixed Conifer-Hardwood Stand in Western Oregon. Corvallis,Oregon: Department of Forest Science, Oregon State UNiversity. 1985
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Forest Growth & Succession
Keywords
  • History
  • Historical
  • mix
  • mixed
  • stand
  • stands
  • McDonald
  • Dunn
  • McDonald-Dunn
  • forest
  • forests
  • undisturbed
  • douglas-fir
  • douglas fir
  • pseudotsuga menziesii
  • structure
  • age
  • species
  • regeneration
  • grand fir
  • abies grandis
  • Gary Carlton
  • Mark Wilson
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Carlton, Gary
Role
C
Collaborators
Wilson, Mark
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221
Project ID
221

Heterotroph Effects on Log Decomposition

Purpose

The objective of this study is to measure rates of heterotroph colonization, patterns and rates of channelization and fungal transmission by insects, and the pattern and rate of fungal invasion and microbial activity relative to log surfaces and insect ga

Project Start Date
1986-05-20
Project End Date
2001-12-31
Related Publications
Schowalter, T.D. 1992. Early decomposition and nutrient dynamics of oak (Quercus) logs at four sites across a North American gradient. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 22:161-66.
Schowalter, T.D., Y.L. Zhang and T.E. Sabin. 1998. Decomposition and nutrient dynamics of oak (Quercus spp.) logs after five years of decomposition. Ecography. 21: 3-10.
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Slash & Decomposition
Keywords
  • Heterotroph
  • log
  • logging
  • decomposition
  • decompositions
  • Heterotrophs
  • decompose
  • colonization
  • pattern
  • patterns
  • fungal
  • fungus
  • insect
  • insects
  • invasion
  • Timothy Schowalter
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Schowalter, Timothy D.
Role
C
Collaborators
N/A
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238
Project ID
238

Early Testing of Vegetation Management Technology

Purpose

Basal application experiment for herbicidal control of bigleaf maple.

Project Start Date
1986-08-01
Project End Date
1988-10-31
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Chemical Control
Keywords
  • test
  • testing
  • tests
  • vegetation
  • veg
  • plant
  • planting
  • plants
  • manage
  • management
  • herbicide
  • herbicides
  • control
  • basal
  • bigleaf maple
  • maples
  • leaf
  • acer
  • hardwood
  • hardwoods
  • Elizabeth Cole
  • Michael Newton
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Cole, Elizabeth
Role
C
Collaborators
Newton, Michael
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245
Project ID
245

Glyphosate Residue Distribution

Purpose

This project will follow the degradation of glyphosate in foliage, soil, water and sediments for one year and document the regrowth of the vegetation.

Project Start Date
1987-08-28
Project End Date
1989-08-28
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Chemical Control
Keywords
  • herbicide
  • herbicides
  • chemical
  • chemicals
  • glyphosate
  • residue
  • residues
  • foliage
  • degredation
  • soil
  • soils
  • water
  • sediment
  • sediments
  • vegetation
  • regrowth
  • Michael Newton
  • Diane White
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Newton, Michael
Role
C
Collaborators
White, Diane E.
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255
Project ID
255

Cruise/Buck

Purpose

Project will determine if "Buck" (a computer program which optimizes log lengths) is a cost effective method for cruising timber.

Project Start Date
1988-06-01
Project End Date
1989-06-01
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Forest Inventory
Keywords
  • cruise
  • cruising
  • buck
  • bucking
  • log
  • logging
  • logs
  • computers
  • computer
  • length
  • lengths
  • cost
  • economic
  • economics
  • timber
  • Eldon Olsen
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Olsen, Eldon
Role
C
Collaborators
N/A
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263
Project ID
263

Stand Management Cooperative Type 3

Purpose

This is an installation in a region-wide cooperative designed to provide a continuing source of high quality data for researchers to study the long-term effects of silvicultural treatments and treatment regimes on stand development and wood quality.

Project Start Date
1988-12-01
Project End Date
1988-12-01
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Forest Growth & Succession
Keywords
  • stand
  • stands
  • manage
  • management
  • cooperative
  • coop
  • co-op
  • type
  • 3
  • thrree
  • growth
  • yield
  • yields
  • silvics
  • silviculture
  • silvicultural
  • treatment
  • treatments
  • wood
  • quality
  • David Hann
  • Johnson
  • Debora
  • Maguire
  • Douglas
Additional Information
Currently Active
Yes
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Hann, David
Role
C
Collaborators
Johnson, Debora; Maguire, Douglas A.
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273
Project ID
273

Urban Fringe

Purpose

OSU Research Forests want to address the issue of managing their property that is adjacent to housing developments -- "the urban fringe." We will be working with the homeowners association to work out an alternative management plan that will satisfy th

Project Start Date
1989-01-01
Project End Date
1989-01-01
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Forest Planning
Keywords
  • urban
  • urbanization
  • fringe
  • silvics
  • silviculture
  • interface
  • William Atkinson
  • Shelby
  • Bot
  • Tappeiner
  • John
Additional Information
Currently Active
Yes
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Atkinson, William
Role
PI
Collaborators
Shelby, Bo; Tappeiner, John
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264
Project ID
264

Soil Residual Herbicides for Site Preparation

Purpose

The object of this study is to assess the effectiveness of Velpar and Arsenal as site preparation materials.

Project Start Date
1989-04-07
Project End Date
1990-06-30
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Chemical Control
Keywords
  • soil
  • soils
  • residue
  • residues
  • herbicide
  • herbicides
  • prep
  • preperation
  • chemical chemicals
  • velpar
  • arsenal
  • site
  • sites
  • Michael Newton
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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266
Project ID
266

Alternative Silvicultural Systems

Purpose

In order to develop stand management alternatives to manage both timber and wildlife, two storied stands (shelterwood), small group regeneration cuts (1-1.5 acres) and clearcuts will be installed on McDonald and Dunn Forests in 1989, 1990 and 1991. Treat

Project Start Date
1989-05-29
Project End Date
1999-06-30
Related Publications
McComb, William. Stand Management Alternatives for Multiple Resources: Integrated Management Experiments.
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Forest Growth & Succession
Keywords
  • alternative
  • alternatives
  • silvicultural
  • silviculture
  • silvics
  • system
  • systems
  • manage
  • timber
  • wildlife
  • shelterwood
  • shelter
  • regeneration
  • cut
  • cuts
  • patch
  • patches
  • clearcut
  • clearcuts
  • clear
  • Bill McComb
  • John Tappeiner
Additional Information
Currently Active
Yes
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
McComb, Bill
Role
C
Collaborators
Tappeiner, John
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272
Project ID
272

Population Biology and Grassland Restoration

Purpose

1- Record abundance and distribution of Fender's blue butterfly within the prairie. 2- Record the abundance, distribution, phenology, and reproduction of the Kincaid's lupine plants. 3- Begin restoration of the prairie, through thatch removal, shrub remov

Project Start Date
1990-04-01
Project End Date
1992-06-01
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Reforestation & Restoration
Keywords
  • population
  • populations
  • biology
  • bio
  • grassland
  • grass
  • grasses
  • restoration
  • restorations
  • abundance
  • abundances
  • fender
  • fenders
  • fender's blue butterfly
  • prairie
  • prairies
  • Kicaid's lupine
  • shrub
  • shrubs
  • Icaricia icarioides fenderi
  • Lupinus sulphureus
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU- Botany and Plant Pathology
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
N/A
Role
N/A
Collaborators
N/A
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276
Project ID
276

Monitoring Snag Use and Dynamics in Clearcuts

Purpose

Mark and reexamine each snag in each clearcut annually to document fall rates, decay rates and bird use of snags in managed stands.

Project Start Date
1990-06-01
Project End Date
2000-06-01
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Slash & Decomposition
Keywords
  • monitor
  • monitoring
  • snag
  • snags
  • deadwood
  • downwood
  • wood
  • dynamics
  • clearcut
  • clear
  • clearcuts
  • decay
  • bird
  • birds
  • Bill McComb
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
McComb, Bill
Role
C
Collaborators
N/A
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278
Project ID
278

Creating Topped Snags with Herbicides

Purpose

To determine if trees topped with a herbicide will be used by cavity-nesting birds. Each tree will be treated and revisited annually to determine treatment effectiveness.

Project Start Date
1990-06-01
Project End Date
2000-06-01
Related Publications
Chambers, Carol., Carrigan, Tara, Sabin, Thomas, Tappeiner, John, McComb, William. Use of Artificially Created Douglas-Fir Snags by Cavity-Nesting Birds.
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Slash & Decomposition
Keywords
  • create
  • creating
  • top
  • topped
  • snag
  • snags
  • herbicide
  • herbicides
  • chemical
  • chemicals
  • cavity
  • cavities
  • bird
  • birds
  • treatment
  • treatments
  • Bill McComb
  • Michael Newton
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
McComb, Bill
Role
C
Collaborators
Newton, Michael
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279
Project ID
279

Thinning Costs in Douglas-fir Plantations

Purpose

Determine the production costs for each phase of the harvesting activity. Compare the diaganol extraction pattern treatment with the random extraction treatment.

Project Start Date
1990-07-01
Project End Date
1990-09-01
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Thinning
Keywords
  • Thin
  • Thinning
  • Thinned
  • Douglas-fir
  • douglas fir
  • pseudotsuga menziesii
  • plantation
  • plantations
  • harvest
  • harvests
  • harvesting
  • production
  • cost
  • costs
  • diagonal
  • extraction
  • economics
  • economic
  • Eldon Olsen
  • Loren Kellogg
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Olsen, Eldon
Role
PI
Collaborators
Kellogg, Loren
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282
Project ID
282

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