The intensity and scale of wildfires has increased throughout the Pacific Northwest in recent decades, especially within the last decade, destroying vast amounts of valuable resources and assets. This trend is predicted to remain or even magnify due climate change, growing population, increased housing density. Furthermore, the associated stress of...
Published September 1995. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
This publication provides basic information on tree growth, characteristics that define wood quality, and the implications of common silvicultural (tree tending) activities on wood quality. It is at best a summary—tree growth is an immensely complex process, and not all aspects of wood formation are fully understood. Most of the...
A timber sale is the culmination of many years
of forest management. For many woodland
owners, it is the most significant opportunity
for return on their forestry investments. It also
may be a significant departure from their normal
sphere of operations. Owners may be accustomed
to planting, managing weeds, thinning...
Although forest products marketing courses are common in forestry curricula, the set of teaching materials available to support instructors is very limited. For those wishing to use the case method, very few up-to-date marketing case studies are specific to the forest products industry. This publication provides an example of one...