FES professor Matthew Betts will be presenting a talk titled "Hummingbird Highways: The impact of landscape fragmentation on tropical plant population" as part of the Living with Nature lecture series, hosted by the Greenbelt Land Trust.  He will be sharing his research on how tracked tropical hummingbirds are effected by landscape fragmentation and how the disturbance of these landscapes may shed light on pollination problems that are plaguing plants around the world.  This event happens February 15 at 7pm at the Corvallis Public Library.

In 2008, scientist and FES assistant professor Bryan Black took core samples the diameter of a pencil from a forest near the north Oregon coast. Most of the trees were hemlocks and Douglas fir that had been undisturbed for about 90 years.  The hemlocks were growing normally. But Black was shocked at what he saw in the Douglas fir samples.  “In 1984, these Douglas fir all but shut down,” Black says. “In fact, their growth was so slow that it wasn’t even forming wood around the whole circumference of the tree.”

Forest Health in Oregon: State of the State 2012 is a one-day conference and continuing education event designed to synthesize the current forest health conditions of Oregon forests by focusing on mortality agents and other factors that negatively impact forest trees.  It will be held on March 1 at the LaSells Stewart Center, OSU.

The revised publication, Measuring Timber Products Harvested from Your Woodland (EC 1127-E), has been added to the Extension online catalog. The authors are Paul Oester and Steve Bowers. This publication describes measurements used to buy and sell timber products.