The European hazelnut, Corylus avellana L., was imported into the U.S. in the late 1800's and is now grown throughout the Willamette Valley in Oregon. A native species of hazelnut, C. cornuta Marshall, is a common shrub found in forested areas of the Pacific Northwest. Foliage of both C. avellana...
Small broomrape, a holoparasitic weed, is a relatively new weed introduction in the Pacific Northwest that has contaminated a limited number of red clover fields in Oregon. Greenhouse and field studies were conducted to evaluate small broomrape response to common crop and weed species in the Pacific Northwest. Host species...
The objective of this study was to determine how the
balance of carbon to nitrogen in a grand fir ecosystem affects
the chemistry of emerging grand fir foliage and the growth of
western spruce budworm larvae. Forest plots in the grand fir
zone of eastern Oregon were thinned, thinned and...
