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As
forest management in the Pacific Northwest has increased
in complexity over the past decade, and has evolved to
encompass multiple resource values, so too has the nature
of forestry research. Although species-specific and problem-specific
research is ongoing, there is a growing need for integrated
and cooperative research that focuses on multiple components
of forest ecosystems. 
The Cooperative Forest Ecosystem Research (CFER) program
is one of the newest integrated research programs in
the Pacific Northwest. Examples of other integrated
research programs focusing on forest ecosystems that
CFER cooperators (BLM, ODF, OSU, and USGS FRESC) are
involved in are featured here.
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Landscape units on USDA Forest Service and USDI
Bureau of Land Management lands designated to encourage
the development and testing of technical and social
approaches to achieving desired ecological, economic,
and social objectives. There are ten areas ranging
from about 92,000 to nearly 500,000 acres of federal
lands that have been identified. These areas are
distributed in western Oregon and Washington and
northwestern California. |
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http://www.fs.fed.us/adaptivemanagement/ |
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This is a research project focusing on the development
and application of strategic forest planning methods
for the fire-prone landscapes of Oregon. Scientists
from OSU, the University of Washington, and the
USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station
are involved as well as managers, landowners, specialists,
and interested citizens. The overall project goal
is to combine sound scientific methods with community
involvement and technical advice from the federal
agencies to develop a model that will reveal the
outcomes of various management strategies relative
to achievement of resource management goals. |
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http://www.cof.orst.edu/research/safefor/ |
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A cooperative research, development, and application
effort to mobilize resources on management issues
of the Blue Mountain forests and rangelands. It
involves scientists from OSU, the USDA Forest Service,
the State of Oregon, and other universities. |
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http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/bmnri/ |
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CLAMS
is a multi-disciplinary research effort sponsored cooperatively
through OSU's College of Forestry, the USDA Forest Service
Pacific Northwest Research Station, and the Oregon Department
of Forestry. The project's main goal is to analyze the
aggregate ecological, economic, and social consequences
of forest policies of different land owners in the Coast
Range. |
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http://www.fsl.orst.edu/clams/ |
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This
project was initiated by the USDA Forest Service and
the USDI Bureau of Land Management. The project is responding
to several broad-scale issues by developing a new management
strategy for public land administered by the two agencies
in eastern Oregon and Washington, Idaho, and western
Montana. The Project's geographic area encompasses more
than 128 million acres in the interior Columbia Basin,
Upper Klamath Basin, and portions of the Great Basin.
The Project involves both a scientific component and
an environmental impact statement process that will
guide management of public lands administered by the
Forest Service and the BLM within the Project area (approximately
64 million acres). Scientists representing federal and
state agencies, universities, and the private sector,
released a comprehensive scientific assessment of the
social, economic, and ecological trends and conditions
of the region in December 1996. |
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http://www.icbemp.gov/ |
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200-year program of research in the Pacific Northwest
and Alaska with major funding from the USDA Forest Service,
the Washington Department of Natural Resources, the
National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection
Agency, and Oregon State University. This research seeks
understanding of processes that control the long-term
productivity of the land--including timber, other commodity
and non-commodity resources, and biodiversity--to support
sustainable-ecosystem management. |
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http://www.fsl.orst.edu/ltep/ |
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A
long-term research program at the H.J. Andrews Experimental
Forest with major funding from the National Science
foundation, the USDA Forest Service, and OSU. LTER is
developing fundamental ecological relationships in managed
and natural forests and incorporating them into forest
management strategies. |
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http://www.fsl.orst.edu/lter/ |
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