Running Time: 31 minutes. Target Audience:Land managers, resource specialists, forestry and natural resource students, and members of the public interested in forest management issues.
This video describes the early phases of an adaptive management project on the Willamette National Forest, where researchers from a number of disciplines are working together to find ecologically sustainable, economical, technically feasible, and socially acceptable ways of managing 50-year-old Douglas-fir plantations for a variety of outputs. To illustrate the wide range of research being conducted, the video includes interviews with silviculturists, wildlife biologists, soil scientists, a mycologist, a forest engineer, and a sociologist. Computer simulations and aerial footage show how the stands look before and after treatment.
Contributing Scientists include Marganne Allen, OSU Forest Engineering Dept.; James Boyle, OSU Forest Resources Dept.; Joan Hagar and Matt Hunter, OSU Forest Science Dept.; Jim Mayo, USDA Forest Service, Blue River RD; Dave Pilz, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station; Robert Ribe, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Studies and Regional Planning Dept., University of Oregon.
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