James Trappe, a faculty member in FES, studies truffles, a pricey delicacy that favors hotter, drier forests.  Despite all the concerns about global warming, it makes sense that there have to be a few effects that aren’t all bad, and Trappe has identified one of them – nature’s aromatic miracle, the truffle. 

Oregon State University forestry students say they have come up with a plan that would increase logging, protect old growth, end clear-cutting, allow forests to naturally regenerate, diversify stands for the benefit of more species and even reimburse the counties where the forests are located for the ecological services such as carbon storage that the forests provide, the Bend Bulletin reports (Full Article).  The students developed their ideas u

Forest researchers are swinging from the trees—all in a day of good work.  Researchers at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest climbed 86 meters (280 ft) into the canopy to ground-truth canopy height data obtained through LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging).  With LiDAR data, scientists are able to create 3D images of landscape topography and canopy structure at a detail not available previously.  FES Assistant professor Matthew Betts and USFS researcher Tom Spies discussed some of the ways that the LiDAR data are being used—from predicting bird species presence to calculati

Recreation Resource Management graduate Melinda Stewart is featured in OSU's Powered by Orange program.  She says "The advisors at the College of Forestry (Jo Tynon and Kama Luukinen) were wonderful about helping me work in the types of courses I would need in order to pursue my life’s dream.  Some terms I would read the entire course catalogue for Oregon State to find what worked into my master plan – not just into the graduation requirements."