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Vigor Analysis of Douglas-fir Seedlings

Purpose

Seedlings will be planted at intervals of two months starting February 18-25, 1985 with final planting June 1-5, 1985. Survival and bud burst will be observed.

Project Start Date
1985-02-18
Project End Date
1985-08-30
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Seed Viability
Keywords
  • vigor
  • vigorous
  • douglas-fir
  • douglas fir
  • pseudotsuga menziesii
  • seedling
  • seedlings
  • seed
  • seeds
  • survival
  • mortality
  • Joseph Zaerr
  • Keith Forry
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Forry, Keith R.
Role
C
Collaborators
Zaerr, Joseph
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220

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

Acclimatization in Winter in Dark-eyed Juncos

Purpose

A study to determine adjustments in insulative capacity, metabolic rate, and hemoglobin affinity for oxygen in response to winter acclimatization in the dark-eyed junco, Junco hyemalis oreganus.

Project Start Date
1985-03-01
Project End Date
1990-06-01
Related Publications
Swanson, David L. Seasonal Variation in Cold Hardiness and Peak Rates of Cold-induced Thermogenesis in the Dark-Eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis). The Auk 107 (July). 1990
Swanson, David. Seasonal Variation of Vascular Oxygen Transport in the Dark-Eyed Junco. The Condor, 92: 62-66,1989
Project Categories
  • Wildlife
  • Birds
Keywords
  • Acclimatization
  • winter
  • dark-eyed
  • junco
  • juncos
  • dark
  • eyed
  • bird
  • birds
  • insulative
  • capacity
  • metabolism
  • metabolic
  • hemoglobin
  • oxygen
  • hyemalis oreganus
  • aves
  • passeriformes
  • John Ruben
  • David Swanson
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Ruben, John A.
Role
C
Collaborators
Swanson, David
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Project ID
225

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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Project ID
221

Lysimeter Test

Purpose

Objective is to test two types of lysimeters and determine methods of soil water flow using a rhodamine dye solution. Area (three to four square meters) will be watered with a gravity feed system for several days. The final day rhodamine dye will be add

Project Start Date
1985-06-10
Project End Date
1985-06-20
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Environmental Factors
  • Soil
Keywords
  • Lysimeter
  • soil
  • soils
  • water
  • flow
  • flows
  • rhodamine
  • dye
  • dyes
  • Don Sachs
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Sachs, Don
Role
C
Collaborators
N/A
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Project ID
222

Stump Anchor Project

Purpose

We are preparing the stump anchor project for a trip to the Olympic Peninsula. We will be on the forest for about one week to train the crew and check out equipment.

Project Start Date
1985-06-20
Project End Date
1985-07-05
Related Publications
Ammeson, James E. and Pyles, Marvin R. and Laursen, Harold I. Three-Dimensional Analysis of Guyed Logging Spars. Computers and Structures, Vol. 29, No. 6, pp 1095-1099, 1988.
Ammeson, James E. and Pyles, Marvin R. and Mann, John W. Engineering Mechanics Research of Cable Logging Systems at Oregon State University. Presented at the 1987 International winter meeting of American Agricultural Engineers.
Pyles, Marvin and Stoupa, Joan. Load-Carrying Capacity of Second-Growth Douglas-Fir Stump Anchors. Western Journal of Applied Forestry 2 (3): 77-80. 1987.
Project Categories
  • Logging
  • Logging Mechanics
Keywords
  • Stump
  • stumps
  • anchor
  • anchors
  • Olympic Peninsula
  • James Ammeson
  • Marvin Pyles
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Ammeson, James E.
Role
C
Collaborators
Pyles, Marvin R.
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Project ID
223

Agroforestry

Purpose

Jory or Bellpine soil requested for greenhouse study. Approximately 6-8 yards of horizon A is needed.

Project Start Date
1985-07-01
Project End Date
1986-09-21
Related Publications
DeMeo, Thomas. Relationships of Tree Growth to Nitrogen and Water Availability in a Sheep-Tree-Pasture System in Douglas County, Oregon: Field Case Study and Shadehouse Simulation. MS Thesis, Forest Science, Oregon State University. 1987
Project Categories
  • Agriculture
  • Agroforestry
Keywords
  • agroforestry
  • agriculture
  • forestry
  • Jory
  • Bellpine
  • soil
  • soils
  • greenhouse
  • horizon
  • horizons
  • Tom DeMeo
  • William Emmingham
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
DeMeo, Tom
Role
C
Collaborators
Emmingham, William H.
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230

Skyline Mechanics Study

Purpose

Summer 1985: We will be conducting static tests on the skyline corridor. Measuring skyline and guyline loadings, and tailtree deflections. Summer 1986: Dynamic tests will be conducted on the skyline corridor.

Project Start Date
1985-08-15
Project End Date
1993-09-21
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Logging
Keywords
  • skyline
  • skylines
  • mechanic
  • mechanics
  • static
  • corridor
  • corridors
  • guyline
  • load
  • loadings
  • loads
  • tailtree
  • tail
  • deflection
  • deflections
  • cable
  • cabled
  • cables
  • Marvin Pyles
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Pyles, Marvin R.
Role
C
Collaborators
N/A
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229

T.V Tower Bird Mortality During Migration Periods

Purpose

In two months, under different weather and lunar conditions, the quantity and species of birds killed at two TV towers will be recorded.

Project Start Date
1985-10-01
Project End Date
1985-12-31
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Wildlife
  • Birds
Keywords
  • TV
  • tower
  • bird
  • birds
  • mortality
  • death
  • migration
  • migratory
  • period
  • periods
  • weather
  • kill
  • killed
  • towers
  • Robert Jarvis
  • Katherine Loofburrow
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Jarvis, Robert L.
Role
C
Collaborators
Loofburrow, Katherine
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228

Ecological Genetics of Rotifiers

Purpose

Sampling the ponds for rotifier population and genetic analysis

Project Start Date
1985-10-01
Project End Date
1989-10-01
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Aquatic Organisms
  • Various Aquatic Invertebrates
Keywords
  • Ecological
  • genetics
  • genetic
  • gene
  • genes
  • rotifiers
  • pond
  • ponds
  • rotifier
  • population
  • populations
  • Charles King
  • Liz Walsh
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
King, Charles
Role
C
Collaborators
Walsh, Liz
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Vigor Analysis of Douglas-fir Seedlings

Purpose

Project will compare field survival with growth room survival in an attempt to correlate field performance with the starch content of the seedling at the time of planting.

Project Start Date
1985-10-25
Project End Date
1986-11-01
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Seed Viability
Keywords
  • vigor
  • analysis
  • douglas-fir
  • douglas fir
  • pseudotsuga menziesii
  • seedlings
  • seedlings
  • seed
  • seeds
  • survival
  • growth
  • mortality
  • starch
  • starches
  • Keith Forry
  • Joseph Zaerr
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Forry, Keith R.
Role
C
Collaborators
Zaerr, Joseph
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232

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

Effects of Grazing on Small Mammal Species Diversity and Density

Purpose

To determine if small mammal species diversity and density differ in grazed and ungrazed habitats of similar class.

Project Start Date
1986-02-17
Project End Date
1986-03-17
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Agriculture
  • Grazing
Keywords
  • graze
  • grazed
  • grazing
  • small
  • mammal
  • mammals
  • species
  • diversity
  • density
  • densities
  • ungrazed
  • habitat
  • habitats
  • John Crawford
  • Matthew Obradovich
  • sheep
  • agriculture
  • agricultural
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Crawford, John A.
Role
C
Collaborators
Obradovich, Matthew
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233

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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Project ID
238

Reducing Deer Populations with Electronic Fences

Purpose

Evaluate the effectiveness of electronic sensors and programmable speakers to exclude deer from a new plantation. Effectiveness will be evaluated by comparing browsing and pellet counts between protected and unprotected areas of a clearcut.

Project Start Date
1986-06-01
Project End Date
1986-08-30
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Wildlife
  • Mammals
Keywords
  • reduce
  • reducing
  • deer
  • elk
  • population
  • populations
  • electronice
  • electric
  • fences
  • fence
  • effective
  • effectiveness
  • browse
  • browsing
  • pellet
  • pellets
  • William Randall
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
USFS
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Randall, William
Role
C
Collaborators
N/A
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234

Study of Aphid Infestation on Wild Hazel

Purpose

Sampling aphids and other insects on wild hazel (Corylus spp.) for comparative work with cultivated filberts.

Project Start Date
1986-06-15
Project End Date
1987-12-31
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Trees
  • Pests & Pathogens
Keywords
  • Aphid
  • Aphids
  • infestation
  • infestations
  • sample
  • sampling
  • wild hazel
  • hazels
  • corylus
  • filbert
  • filberts
  • cultivate
  • cultivates
  • AliNiazee
  • Russell Messing
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
AliNiazee, M.T.
Role
C
Collaborators
Messing, Russell
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236
Project ID
236

Wood Quality Heritability

Purpose

Identification of within-tree quality variabilty using X-ray samples taken every 4 feet along a stem. Objective is to identify wood quality parameters for standing timber.

Project Start Date
1986-07-01
Project End Date
1987-12-31
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Forest Products
  • Lumber
Keywords
  • wood
  • quality
  • grade
  • grades
  • heritability
  • qualities
  • identification
  • tree
  • X-ray
  • X
  • stem
  • stems
  • standing
  • timber
  • Mike Hoag
  • McKimmy
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Hoag, Mike
Role
C
Collaborators
McKimmy, M.D.
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Project ID
239

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

Patch Dynamics Study

Purpose

The study will be looking at rates of vegetation closure through the years using aerial photographs. The sites will be used to gather some simple measures of opening size, current canopy size, and age of dominant perimeter trees.

Project Start Date
1986-08-11
Project End Date
1988-09-30
Related Publications
Kiser, Jim. Forest patch Dynamics: The Use of Aerial Photography as a tool in quantifying vegetation changes in naturally disturbed areas. MS Thesis, Forest Engineering, Oregon State University, 1992
Project Categories
  • Surveying & Aerial Photography
Keywords
  • patch
  • patches
  • dynamic
  • dynamics
  • photogrammetry
  • photo
  • vegetation
  • aerial
  • photographs
  • opening size
  • canopy
  • age
  • dominant
  • perimeter
  • Jim Kiser
  • David Paine
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Kiser, Jim
Role
C
Collaborators
Paine, David P.
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Project ID
240

Manning's Equation Trial

Purpose

Measurement of stream velocity during high flow.

Project Start Date
1986-09-01
Project End Date
1987-05-31
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Hydrology
  • Stream Habitats & Dynamics
Keywords
  • Manning
  • Mannings
  • Equation
  • equations
  • trials
  • trial
  • watershed
  • shed
  • water
  • stream
  • streams
  • velocity
  • high
  • flow
  • flows
  • Chip Andrus
  • Henry Froehlich
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Andrus, Chip
Role
C
Collaborators
Froehlich, Henry A.
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Project ID
241

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