c-;1irst, lee me say what a
pleasure it is to greet
alumni and friends of the
College of Forestry from these
pages for the first time. Since I
joined the College as Dean last
and managing forests. I'm grateful
to the H ayes family for supporting
the College's mission to pursue
leading-edge research into all
aspects of foresay.
July, I have had the opportunity to
I'm also graceful to them for
adding to the nwnber of our
meet some of you, and I have been
gratified at the level of commit-
endowed faculty positions - a
priority of min e. We now have fi ve
ment and support I've found
endowed positions -
among you.
In this issue you'll read about
serve in them, on p age 7. Ir's my
a new endowed professorship,
funded by a generous gift from
three brothers and a sister who
wished to honor their father, the
you can read
about them, and the scientisrs who
goal to double their number in five
years and triple it in 10.
It would be nice to think we
could conduct the kind of relevant,
lace Edmund H ayes. Hayes was a
problem-solving research that's
leader in Oregon's forest industry
needed today without private sup-
during the middle years of the last
century. T hanks partly to his per-
port, but the fact is, we can'r. Not
only do private gifts expand our
suasive efforts, the timber industry
moved toward a progressive
ing and outreach capability) in
forestry based on conservation of
absolute rerms, but they also offer
the forest resource through suc-
College scientists the means to
cessful reforesrarion and managing
of second-growth forests under
explore less-charred territory, ro
sound silviculrural principles.
answers nor only to the problems
Edmund H ayes, Jr. (Ned), his
brothers Frederick and Philip, and
their sisrer Cornelia Hayes Stevens,
share their father's progressive spirir. Their gift recognizes the need
for continued research into silviculture and forest ecology, so that
there can be a scientific basis to
evaluate different ideas for growing
research capability (and our teach-
uncover the science and find
of today but to those of tomorrow.
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COVER STORY
A
GENEROUS GIFT FROM A FAMILY WITH FORESTRY ROOTS
NEW HAYES P ROFESSOR IS ONE O F OUR OWN
P RIVATE GIFTS ARE ESSENTIAL T O C OLLEGE'S MISS ION
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STUDENT NEWS
AOL SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED
S ENIORS HONORED
OSU TO TAKE LEAD ON CENTRAL OREGON UNIVERSITY
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by the Oregon State University College
of Forestry. Our goal is to keep
Forestry alumni and friends informed
about the College of Forestry and
its many activities and programs.
HAL SALWASSER
Dean
DEBORAH J. BIRD
FACULTY-STAFF NEWS
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Head Advisor
GAIL WELLS
WHAT'S GOING ON
Editor
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Cover: Edmund Hayes; Bill Emmingham out in the field.
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NEWS BRIEFS
o memorialize
new forest management approaches
their fath er's
that meet the needs of family forest
belief in the val-
and woodland owners.
ues of education and silviculcure,
Edmund Hayes was a leader in
the Hayes family of Oregon has
the Oregon timber industry in the
made a generous gift to Oregon
twentieth century. After their father
State University. Their donation
died in 1986 at the age of91, the
of $800,000 to the O SU
four Hayes siblings, Edmund Jr.
Foundation established the
(Ned), Frederick, Philip, and
Edmund Hayes Professorship in
Cornelia H ayes Stevens, talked
Silviculcure Alternatives, an
about how they wanted to com-
endowed professorship in the
memorate his life. They found a
College of Forestry.
good fit in the College of Forestry.
Through managing his family
forests and woodlands after he
its own timberlands and thus
retired, N ed H ayes learn ed about
being responsible for the long-
Oregon State University's leader-
term stewardship of those lands_J
ship in silviculrure and forest
a new idea in the timber industry
ecology research. T he H ayes fam ily
at that time.
decided that a new professorship
Bill Emmingham, professor in
p u rchase set Weyerhaeuser's
company on the path of owning
After his education at
would be an appropriate way to
Princeton and Harvard and mili-
honor their father's lifelong interest
tary service in World War I,
in growing new forests. Says Ned
Edmund H ayes came west to get
H ayes, ''There's a lot to be known
an ed ucation in the forest products
yet about growing trees and sus-
industry. After several jobs for
taining forests. We want to deepen
Weyerhaeuse1; he founded the
Above, Edmund
the Department of Forest Science
Hayes was a leader
an d Extension specialist in silvicul-
otu understanding of this wonder-
C lackamas Fir Lumber Company
in Oregon's timber
ture, has been selected as the first
ful resotuce we have."
in 1929. His small mill was located
industry. Left,
Edmund Hayes Professor in
Edmund Hayes was born in
southeast of Oregon City, and he
Silviculture Alternatives. H e will
Eau C laire, Wisconsin, in 1895,
managed to keep his mill going
Hayes's son, Edmund
conduct a research and education
into a family already involved in
through most of the Great
Jr. (Ned)
program in silviculrural strategies
the timber industry. In 1900, his
D epression.
such as uneven-aged managem ent.
maternal grandfather, Orrin
Emmingham's research is
H enry Ingram, was one of
Later Hayes bought shares in
the Row River Lumber Company
improving understanding of how
Frederick Weyerhaeuser's associates
and supervised the construction
to achieve diverse and productive
in the purchase of 900,000 acres
and operation of a sawmill ease of
foresrs with many tree species and
of western Washington timberland
Cottage Grove. Jn 1938 he took a
trees of different ages mixed in one
for the price of $5,400,000, or
position on the board of directors
stand. His work is also leading to
about six dollars per acre. T his
for Weyerhaeuser.
J
FORESTRv; - SP.RING
In 1946, Hayes became
share the services of a forester. The
Oregon. Although tl1e Oregon
Weyerhaeuser's vice-president in
organization's
Forest Practices Act was not enact-
charge of the company's operations
mission, expressed in its slogan
ed until 1971, many timber com-
in Oregon. H e also stayed directly
"We Grow Trees," was highly pro-
panies were routinely planting trees
involved with managing small
gressive for the time, when refor-
after harvest, and some second-
forests and woodland properties.
estation consisted mostly ofleaving
growtl1 trees were getting large
With a parmer, he bought 5,000
seed trees in logged areas.
enough to be harvested.
acres of second-growth timber
In the late 1930s Hayes was
It is a great honor, says
southeast of Astoria in 1944. Their
one of the original organizers of the
Bill Emmingham, to be the first
goal was to use new forestry science
Keep Oregon Green Association,
holder of the Hayes Professorship.
to manage the land through selec-
an organization that promoted for-
"The great thing about the endow-
tive logging and replanting.
est protection and prevention of
ment," he says, "is that it recognizes
forest fires. He also made one of
the importance of learning how to
sawmill owner, small-woodland
the first contributions to the
manage the diverse and productive
owner, and board member of a
Western Forestry Center (now the
forests of the Pacific Northwest
World Foresny Center) in the
with a variety of silvicultural
Throughout his career as
iant forest products company,
dmund Hayes used his influence
to work fo r reform in the timber
1960s, believing that it was impor-
approaches. The Hayes family
tant to educate the general public
understands the need to expand
industry. Early in his career, he
about foresny and the value of
our knowledge about how to prac-
developed a strong belief in the
forests to society.
tice forestty."
need for reforestation and invest-
In 1965, when he was 70,
Edmund Hayes retired from his
position as head ofWeyerhaeuser's
executive committee. By then,
reforestation after logging was
becoming common practice in
ment in silviculture. He was one of
the founders of Willamette Valley
Tree Farms in 1941 , an organization that allowed several timber
companies in the Eugene area to
Emmingham is now conduct-
Above, Bill
ing thinning studies on the
Emmingham, Hayes's
Tillamook State Forest-once
endowed professor.
known as the Tillamook Burn,
Left, Hayes's da ughter,
thousands of acres in northwestern
Oregon that burned repeatedly in a
Cornelia Stevens, and
series of severe wildfires in the
her husband, Bill, share
1930s, '40s, and '50s. The forest
a smile with Marianne
was restored in a massive reforesta-
Barker (left), director of
tion project in tl1e 1950s and
'60s-an effort su-ongly supported
development for the
by Edmund Hayes-and now the
OSU Foundation.
land is covered with healthy second-growtl1 forests.
In one project, Emmingham is
studying the responses of six
conifer species: grand fir, Douglas-
fir, Sitka spruce, western hemlock,
western redcedar, and Pacific yew,
cont'd. on page 7
NEW HAYES PROFESSOR IS ONE OF OUR OWN
Bill Emmingham,
at work on his own
tree farm.
ill Erruningham,
the ftrst holder of
the newly created
Edmund Hayes Professorship
in Silviculture Alternatives, is
a professor and Extension
specialist in the Department
of Forest Science. H e has built
a distinguished program of
research on silvicultural systems
in the Northwest and in other
parts of the world.
Emmingham, an expert in
forest ecosystem structure and
function, received his doctorate
in forest ecology from OSU in
1984 and has been on the
Forest Science facul ty since
1980. He has done extensive
research on new types of silvicultural systems, agroforestry,
small-woodland management,
forest ecology, and other topics.
He has a long-standing
interest in silvicultural methods
practiced in uneven-aged fo rests
in Switzerland, Germany, and
France, where native forests were
long ago replaced with planted
ones, and where foresters have
had many generations to shape
silvicultural methods to their
countries' economic and social
needs.
In one research area,
Emmingham is trying various
thinning experiments in young,
even-aged Douglas-fir forests on
Oregon's west side. His goal is to
develop strategies to move these
stands toward achieving oldgrowth conditions sooner than if
they were left unmanaged .
"T he H ayes Professorship
recognizes the importance of
learning how to manage the
diverse and productive forests of
the Pacific Northwest in a variety of ways," Emmingham says.
"Edmund H ayes, the patriarch
of the H ayes family, saw the
great potential of forestry when
he came to this region early in
this century. His daughter and
sons now recognize the need to
expand our knowledge about
how to practice forestry. Their
gift honors me and my research
and Extension work, and I
appreciate their recognition very
much."
Emmingham will hold the
Hayes Professorship until his
retirement in December. He
will be succeeded by another
Extension specialist in silviculture who will also hold the
H ayes Professo rship.
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( ~RIVATE GIFTS ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE COLLEGE'S MISSION
ifts such as the one
endowed chairs and professorships.
that made the
Hayes Endo~ed
(An endowed professorship, such as
the H ayes professorship, funds a
increasingly important to the
faculty member's research, teaching,
and ocher activities, while an
College of Forestry's ability to fulfill
its mission of teaching, research,
salary as well.) Such gifts have a
public service, and extended educa-
direct and lasting influence on the
tion, says Dean Hal Salwasser.
College's core mission, not only
"People think higher educa-
endowed chair funds his or her
by supporting leading-edge research
tion in O regon is state-supported,
but chat's only partly rrue," he says.
and teaching, but by generating
"'State-assisted' is really a better
term. Public funding does not
edge about sustainable management of forests, manufactme of
cover all the services the public
expects from us. Private gifts like
wood products, and nanual
resource policy.
the Hayes endowment make the
critical difference in om being able
Emmingham, professor in the
to stay at the forefront of research
D epartment of Forest Science,
and transferring practical lmowl-
Silviculturist Bill
ahatwill hdp Oregon and the
has been chosen the first H ayes
a
Professor. The College also has four
orld achieve a sustainable funue."
The 2001-2003 budget for
endowed chairs, which fund both
Oregon's higher education is still
salary and research. They are the
being formed in the Legislature,
Richardson Chairs in the
but Governor John Kitzhaber's pro-
"Our goal is to double the
nwnber of endowed positions in
the College in five years, and triple
it in 10 years," says Salwasser. "We
hope to use these endowed
p ositions to build the College's
Measuring trees
at a workshop for
teachers, presented
by Oregon Forestry
Education Program .
D epartments of Forest Engineering,
capacity in five cmrent areas of
strength: forest biology, ecology,
OFEP, headquartered
posed budget, released in January,
Forest Science, and Forest Products;
and productivity; forest manage-
at the College,
called for reducing by almost 20
and the Starker Chair in Family
ment and operations; forest prod-
depends heavily on
percent the funding needed by the
and Private Forestry in the
ucts; forest resources; and natural
Forest Research Laboratory co
D epartment of Forest Resomces.
resource policy. We will also work
maintain its current level of service.
Salwasser, who succeeded fo r-
These positions are held by
Professors Jeff McDonnell, Mark
to increase the College's programs
mer Dean George Brown in July,
has made it a priority to seek more
father and their family have histori-
ties, and in unthinned stands. His
of species and forest strucnue.
Bill Emmingham and the four
future research may include studies
Hayes siblings share the belief chat
Hayes family endows, from page 5
in stands thinned at various densi-
continue its outreach
in urban forestry, wildland fire
to public-school
Harmon, David Rosowsky, and
management, and international
tea chers.
John Bliss, respectively.
forestry."
cally been interested.
''& a family we're pleased to
on new thinning approaches for
Oregon will always need diverse and
develop chis association with OSU,"
western hemlock and Douglas-fir,
productive forests and the wood
says Ned Hayes. "We're impressed
and long-term studies chat focus on
produces chat come from chem. Ned
with the resomces at OSU, and
options for converting even-aged,
Hayes and his sister and brothers are
we're looking forward to seeing the
delighted to see new knowledge
developed in areas in which their
results of the research."
.ature forests into uneven-aged,
managed forests with more diversity
private funds to
Kendra Petersen-
Seven students
Morgan, Carson
received
Hundrup, Eric
scholarships from
Watrud, and
Associated Oregon
Kimberly Wal ker
Loggers. From left,
were honored for
AOL's Doug
outsta nding
Littlejohn;
leadership.
Forestry students,
Below, Ba rbara
Cody Lesniak,
Schrader and
Paul Betts, Scott
John Bliss, faculty
Bushnell, Matt
members in the
Melcher, Sam
Depa rtment of Forest
Resources, shared
the Kliewer Mentor
Awa rd, and
Jim Kiser of the
ese graduati ng
emors were
honored at last
spring's Fernhopper Day with
prestigious leadership awards.
Kimberly Walker received the
Paul Dwm Senior Award, rhe
Department of Forest
Engineering received
the Aufderheide
Award for excellence
in teaching.
in teaching. Barbara Schrader and
OSU MOVF5 AHFAD ON COSU
John Bliss, associate professor and
professor, respectively, in the
OSU will take the lead in developing Oregon's first branch uni-
Department of Forest Resources,
shared the Kliewer Mentor Award
versity campus in central Oregon. The decision was made by the
Oregon Seate Board of Higher Education at its February meeting.
for their devotion to studems'
OSU-Central Oregon will bring for the first time a complete
guidance and development.
four-year university program to Oregon's fastest-growing region.
College's highest honor for
graduating seniors. Eric Watrud
lmplemenracion will require scan-up funding by the Oregon
received the Bowerman
Legislature. A request for 2001 -2003 funding is now before
state lawmakers.
Amy Eckert shares
Leadership Award, given for
a conversation
outstanding leadership of fellow
students. Carson Hundrup
received the Kelly Axe Award,
given for students' work behind
t he scenes in less-visible, lessrewarded volunteer jobs.
Also on Fernhopper Day,
Jim Kiser, instructor in the
Department of Forest
Engineering, received the
Aufderheide Award for excellen ce
wi th Ryan Strain at
Undergraduate majors will include a program in Outdoor
Recreation Leadership and Tourism, to be offered jointly by the
the College of
Colleges of Forestry and Health and Human Performance, and
Forestry Job Fair,
the N atural Resources program, offered jointly by the Colleges of
Forestry, Agricultural Sciences, Liberal Arts, and Science.
sponsored by the
Eventually the OSU -Central Oregon's academic programs will
student chapter of
include bachelor's degree programs in 25 fields, as well as 11
master's programs.
the Society of
American Foresters.
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OSU President Paul Risser says that if all goes as planned,
OSU-Central Oregon will enroll its first students this fall. OSU
will work with the University of Oregon and with the
Chancellor's Office to develop an implementation plan by April 1
and appoint a full-time interim chief executive officer by
September.
Hagglund, and Jill
Smouse.
Kirk Luoto, not
pictured, also
received a
scholarship.
Glenn R. Ahrens is the new
Extension forester in Clatsop and
Tillamook counties and the
The OSU Extension Servic.e honored three members of the College
with its Search for Excellence
John Seiler and John Peterson,
both of Virginia Tech.
Scott Leavengood, Forest
Award. Shoma Broussard, Brad
Wttluow-Robinson, and Scott
Products associate professor, has
Reed were honored for thei r our- been named to a new Extension
sranding leadership in educational position in Washington County,
directing a program in valueprogramming for coordinating
the art show, "Seeing the Forest." added secondary forest products
manufacturing. Leavengood will
The traveling exhibit has 53
serve the Portland metropolitan
works of arr by 26 artists from
the Northwest. Broussard recently area and its western suburbs. Most
recently he served as Extension
received her doctorate in Forest
John Bell, Professor Emeritus of
Forest Resources, was selected as a Resources and is now on the facforest products agent in Klamath
County, in a similar program
member of the Diamond Pioneer
ulty ac Purdue University.
which he pioneered there in 1994.
Agricultural Achievement Registry. Withrow-Robinson is Extension
This honor, conferred by the OSU forester for Polk, Marion, and
College of Agricultural Sciences,
Yamhill counties. Reed is che
Connie Patterson has accepted (
the new job of program support
recognizes significant contribuCollege's Associate Dean for
tions of friends and colleagues
Extended Education and program coordinator in the Department of
Forest Products. She was formerly
leader of Forestry Extension.
who have served agriculture and
student services advisor for the
related areas during their careers.
College, where she coordinated
Ed Jensen (Forest Resources) is
coauthor of the first comprehenBeulah Davis, manager of the
the employment program, organized admission procedures and
Forestry Accounting office since
sive compact-disc reference work
activities, and worked with
1996, has moved on to become
on North American trees and
the business manager for the
shrubs. Woody Plants in North NatLtral Resources students. In
America offers an in-depth look her new position, she has responH atfield Marine Science Center
sibility for expanding and implein Newport. Her successor is
at 470 trees and shrubs, both
native and introduced. It contai ns menting recruitment and retenScott Ferris. Ferris comes from
University Business Services,
more than 9,500 color photos of tion programs for Forest Products
undergraduate students and
where he has worked for the past leaves, stems, fruits, bark, and
10 years. He helped implement
ocher plant parts, along with such developing and managing internship programs.
OSU's current financial
special features as an illustrated
m anagem ent system.
glossary, customized quizzes, and
side-by-side comparisons of simi- Lisa Ganio, a sratistician in the
Karen Gutbreau is the new office lar species. A demonstration of
Department of Forest Science,
manager for the Department of
was promoted to a tenure-track
the two-CD set can be viewed at
www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro, and
Forest Resources. She comes to
position as assistant professor. She
the College from Oregon Health
there's ordering information at
wi ll teach a course in natural
Sciences University.
resources data analysis and offer
the site. Jensen's coauthors are
Extension staff chair in C latsop
County. Ahrens was most recently
a consulting forester in Olympia,
Wash. H e has a master's in forest
ecology from OSU. His appointment comes with the rank of
associate professor in the
Department of Forest Science.
Brad Withrow--Robinson,
Lisa Ganio
)
courses in related areas, and will
collaborate with other researchers
in studies dealing with quantitative science and statistics. She will
also help manage the College's
computer and data management
systems and consult with Forest
Products were part of a six-man
team that reached the summit of
Denali, North America's highest
research. She has degrees in
botany and statistics and has
worked as a statistical consultant
for biologists, ecologists, and
foresters for more than 15 years.
mountain, last summer. John
Punches, John Simonsen, and
Ryan Singleton took the West
Buttress route to the summit of
the 20,320-foot peak. Said John
Simonsen: "I think Robert
Tatum, a member of the first
ascent team of Denali in 1913,
expressed my feeling ve1y well:
'The view from the top of Mount
McKinley is like looking out the
Two faculty members and a
research assistant from Forest
windows of heaven!"' Simonsen is
the faculty advisor for the OSU
Mountain Club.
Science graduate students on the
statistical dimensions of their
fl Mary Scroggins dies
m
ary Scroggins, longtune librarian at the
orest Research
Laborato1y Publications
Department, died in January of
pancreatic cancer. She was 73.
Mary was born in Marshfield,
Wisc. Afi:er graduating from
Lawrence College in Appleton,
Wisc., she worked as a reference
librarian at the Appleton Public
Library. With her husband, Tom,
and their daughter, Susie, she moved
to Oregon in 1966. She worked for
the Albany Public Library for a few
years and then became the FRL
librarian in 1969.
She is remembered with great
fondness by her former colleagues.
a'More than most, Maiy Scroggins
. a s a private person who neverthe-
less cai·ed deeply for and about
others," says Ralph McNees, who
directed the FRL Publications
Depaiunent for ma11y of the years
she served there. "In most
exchanges, conversa11ts came away
realizing that they had revealed
themselves more deeply tha11 she
had, but that, wilike what happens
in much casual chat, she had listened
and considered and w1derstood."
Her hobbies included reading, book collecting, and
music-particularly piano music
by Brahms and concerts of the
rock group The Grateful Dead.
Survivors include her husband; daughter, Susan Irene
Scroggins of Eugene; and sister,
Irene Zeronian of Davis, CA.
Memorial donations may be
made to the OSU Foundation
for the Maty B. Scroggins
Memorial Endowment Fund.
Mary established the fund to
support continuing journal
subscriptions and purchase of
other materials for the Forest
Products Information Center.
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The College of Forestry's new
head advisor and head of student
services is Debbie Bird. She has
been at OSU since 1981, most
recently as coordinator of the
University Scholars Program,
where she had charge of centralizing the all-University scholarship
tracking, advising, and programming operations. Her new
responsibilities include managing
the recruitment, orientation, and
advising of undergraduate students and managing scholarship
and job-placement programs
within the College. Bird succeeds
Pam Henderson, who retired last
year after almost 25 years of service to the College of Forestry.
needs for the College community
and for the Forest Service staff at
the Forestry Sciences Laboratory
next door. Josh Crowl also joins
the computing support team as a
system support analyst. He comes
from the Linn-Benton-Lincoln
NWTI C has 31 members from
industry and state and federal
agencies. Jayawickrama, a tree
breeder, comes from Rotorua,
New Zealand, where he worked
on the genetic improvement of
radiata pine.
school district.
Tom Edwards is the Research
Forests' new project engineer and
operations forester. A 1984 Forest
Engineering graduate, he comes
most recendy from a Eugene
engineering firm, where he was a
professional surveyor and engi-
Janey Parson has joined the
Extended Education office as
administrative assistant. Most
recently she worked at the OSU
Foundation.
neer. On the Research Forests, he
is responsible for harvest and road
construction projects.
Also new in the student services
Evelyn Gibson and Penny
office is Clay Torset. He joins the Wright have joined the College
Debbie Bird,
Clay Torset.
Right, Don Wolf
College of Forestry as student
services advisor, succeeding
Connie Patterson, who is now
working in the Department of
Forest Products as a student
recruiting coordinator. Torset has
been with OSU since 1984 in a
variety of marketing and recruitment posts in the Office of
Admissions. Most recently he
served as Greek Life operations
manager, overseeing the affairs of
OSU's fraternities and sororities.
of Forestry business office.
Gibson rook a position in
accounts payable, succeeding
Misty Labahn, who is now handling travel-related accounts.
Wright moved to the College
from managing the office in a
construction company; she's now
handling human resources and
payroll for the College.
The College has a new
cooperative, the Northwest Tree
Improvement Cooperative,
with a new director, Keith
Angela Haney has joined the
College's computing support serv- Jayawickrama. The co-op
ice as an information technology
conducts and facilitates cooperaconsultant. She will provide suptive breeding of coastal Douglasport of software and hardware
fir and western hemlock.
Donald Wolf is the College's new
coordinator of the Oregon
Forestry Education Program. Part
of rhe College's Extended
Education effort, OFEP provides
1,000 teachers yearly wirh
environmental education materials and workshops. Wolf, who has
taught in the classroom and
served in other educational leade1"i'
ship positions, comes ro the
~
Elizabeth Kaiser, office
College from the Oregon
Department of Agriculture, where specialist in the Student Services
office, for o ucstanding service to
he worked on che Oregon Plan
stud ents, parents, and other visfor Salmon and Watersheds, the
Willamette Restoration Initiative, itors to the College, as well as
faculty and scaff.
and other matters involving
forestry and fisheries. He has two
bachelors' degrees from OSU, in
elementary education and environmental interpretation, and a
master's in rangeland resources,
also from OSU. He is almost
finished wich his docrorate in
environmencal history.
Dean Hal Salwasser honored six
~ndividuals
and two teams in the
Beverly Law, Forest Science assistant professor, for her innovacive
program of research on ecosystem
processes and her success with
competitive grants.
Bruce Shindler, Forest Resources
associate professor, fo r his exemplary commitment to resident
undergraduate and graduate
instruction and advising.
~ollege of Forestry wich the
annual D ean's Award for
Outstanding Achievement. This
year's recipients are:
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The Biocechnology Research
Team: Rick Meilan, Caiping
Ma, and Jace Carson, Foresc
Science associace professor,
research associate, and research
associate, respectively; for their
Beulah Davis, manager of the
Forestry Business Office, for outstanding service tO College faculty outstanding team research on tree
genetics and biotechnology.
and staff and for guidance to the
Computing Resources group.
The Oregon Wood Magic Team:
Greg Filip, Forest Science associ- Jeff Morrell, Margie Hoover,
ate professo r, for excellent leader- and Connie Patterson, Forest
Products professor, office specialship in managing the Swiss
Needle Cast Research
ist, and program support coordinator, respectively; and Patricia
Cooperative.
Morrell (University of Portland),
for outstanding teamwork in
John Hayes, Forest Science
organizing and carrying out the
associate professor, for his conrribucions to the Cooperative
Wood Magic on-sire reaching and
demonstration program for
Forest Ecosystem Research
elementary school students .
CFER) program.
Left column: Bruce Shinder,
Greg Filip, Bev Law, and
Caiping M.a and Jace
Carson.
Right: column: Elizabeth
Kaiser; Beulah Davis, and
Connie Patterson and
Margie Hoover.
FOREST SCIENCE DEPARTMENT HEAD
Thomas Adams,
geneticist and
professor in the
Department of Forest Science,
has been named head of the
Department, succeeding Logan
Norris, who retired in December.
Adams has served on the
Forest Science faculty for 22
years. Author of almost 100
professional papers and fo rmer
director of the Pacific N orthwest
Tree Improvement Research
Cooperative, he is a recognized
leader in the genetics of forest
trees and tree improvement
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- - - - - - - - -Jerry Hull, right,
receives a memento
from Forest Products
department head
n
efforts. He conducts research on
the genetics of plant adaptation,
population genetics and gene
flow in conifers, mati ng patterns,
and the management of seed
orchards.
He has received awards from
O SU for teaching and has guided
20 students through advanced
degrees. In 1991 he received the
Research Award from the Oregon
Society of American Foresters.
H e received his doctorate in
genetics from the University of
California at Davis in 1974.
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JERRY HULL RETIRES
erry Hull, a pulp and
paper research technician whose computer
w
y propelled him in to a
second vocation as computer
teacher and support guru, retired
from the College in December
after 29 years of service.
Hull came to OSU in 1971
to work in pulp and paper
research for Forest Products professor Walt Bublitz. To help
Bublitz analyze his research data,
Hull. learned how to program the
first desktop calculator-computers
and to prepare and interpret data
processed through the
campus mainframe-the only
means of performing larger
computational
tasks in those
days.
When PCs
rook over most
computing
chores in the
mid-1980s, Hull became an expert
in data-processing software programs and began to share his
knowledge with others ac the
College. He earned a reputation as
a good teacher, a vocation he also
pursued as an after-hours instructor at Linn-Benton Community
College. Hull moved into a full-
time role as user support specialist
in the mid-1990s, while continuing ro teach parts of the course in
chemical wood processing.
T ho ugh officially retired, be
comes in fro m time to time co
help our at the computing help
desk and ro reach a class or two.
DICK WARING RETIRES
hard H. Waring,
rest ecologist and
professor in the
Department of Forest Science,
retired in January after 37 years
on the OSU faculty. Waring
came to O SU in 1963 after
completing his doctorate in
botany and soil science at the
University of California at
Berkeley. He has spent his career
investigating the physiological
ecology of trees by characterizing
and quantifying the relationships
amo ng physiological functions,
environmental conditio ns, and
growth. His work led co advances
~n evaluating the susceptibili ty of
~rees to insect and disease attack,
assessing the underlying causes
of stress, and applying remotesensing technology to assess forest productivity across regions.
In 1970 he and forest ecologist Jerry Franklin led the
ecosystem analysis program on
the Andrews Experimental
Forest. The And rews crew
included more than 100 people
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research),
directed at developing the tools
of remote sensing to estimate climate and forest conditions. He
and then-doctoral students
Barbara Bond and Beverly Law,
both now on the Forest Science
faculty, quantified important
links between the information
from satellite images and the
canopy struccure and photosynthetic capabilities of forests on
the ground.
Waring spent five years of
his career abroad, and as a result
he has many international colleagues who have helped test the
general principles that appear in
his more than 100 papers and
two widely used textbooks. He
coauthored his most recent text
with a fo rmer studenc, Steve
Running.
He has guided many graduate students through their degree
programs, has published papers
with each, and remains in close
contact with all. He has received
many awards and honors; he was
the first faculty member in the
from 10 departments at OSU.
With so me of those colleagues, College of Forestry to be named
Waring pioneered work in
OSU Distinguished Professor,
process modeling-using com and he has been recognized by the
puters to project future forest
Northwest Science Association as
conditions from current data
an Outstanding Scientist. He
continues to be active professionon environmental and physiological conditions.
ally, teaching workshops and servIn 1989 Waring led a project ing on advisory panels following
fo r the National Aeronautics and his official retirement.
-pace Administration called
W)TTER (Oregon Transect
colleagues and other
well-wishers
at a reception in his
honor. The smiling
ma n on the right is
Jack Walstad, Forest
Resources depa rtment head.
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became chief research chemist
and project leader for research on
watersheds in managed forests.
He was a courtesy faculty member in the College of Forestry
during this time. In 1983 he was
appointed professor and head of
the Department of Forest Science,
in which post he served for the
next 17 years.
During bis tenure, the education and research progran1s of tbe
Department of Forest Science
have become widely recognized
for their excellence. A recent survey by the Ecological Society of
America ranked OSU programs
ogan Norris, head of in forest ecology as the nation's
finest. The department has also
the Department of
Forest Science for the grown in numbers of faculty and
past 17 years, retired in December students and in research funding.
after more than 3 5 years of service Forest Science now has 101 faculto Oregon State University and the ty and staff, 75 courtesy faculty,
foresuy community.
l 0 adjunct faculty in other
Norris has a long association departments, more than l 00
with the University; he arrived
graduate students, and an annual
here from his native California as budget of a.lmost $10 million.
an undergraduate student in
Norris continues to pursue
1954. He went on to earn a bach- his research program and his
elor's degree in forest managecommitment to public service.
ment, a master's in forest science
His research on the movemenr,
and chemistry, and a doctorate in persistence, and evenrual fate of
botany. For six years he served on herbicides used in the forest has
the faculty of the OSU
garnered him more than 85
Department of Agricultural
papers in professional journals.
Chemistry.
He has served on several national
In 1968 he moved to the
and state scientific panels, includCorvallis laboratory of the USDA ing the Society of American
Forest Service Pacific Northwest
Foresters Task Force on
Forest and Range Experiment
Sustaining Long-term Forest
Station, where he eventually
Health and Productivity, which
issued a widely discussed 1993
report on forest sustainability.
Norris continues as chair of
Oregon's seven-member
Independent Muitidisciplinary
Scienrific Team (IMST), part of
the Oregon Plan for Salmon and
Watersheds. Convened by
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber
in 1997, the team is charged with
evaluating the state's land-use
practices, including forestry, agricu.lture, urban development, and
the management of fish and fishing, for their effects on the recovery of depressed stocks of salmon
under the Oregon Plan.
Norris has received many
awards and honors throughout
his career, including the USDA
Superior Service Award, election
to Fellow in the Society of
American Foresters, and lifetime
honoraty membership in the
Western Society of Weed Science.
In retirement, he hopes to
continue to be of service to
Oregon State University and to
the forestry and natural resources
community.
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STATE OF OREGON'S ENVIRONMENT MIXED, SAYS SCIENTIFIC PANEL
egon faces new and
rious environmental
lailenges, according
to the first-ever scientific report on
the state of Oregon's environment.
The State of the Oregon
Current
Environment Report was
authored by a panel of scientists
that included K. Norman
Johnson of the Department of
Forest Resources and Jane
Lubchenco of the Department of
Zoology. The panel was chaired
by OSU Presidenr Paul Risser.
Among the problems it cites
are inadequate water supplies,
poor water quality in cities and
~armlands, loss of wetlands,
~egraded rivers and streams,
depleted fish stocks, invasive
planrs, diminished biodiversity,
and pollution. T hese problems
are concentrated mainly in the
lower-lying urban, suburban, and
agricultural areas where most
Oregonians live and work, says
the report.
The scienrists evaluated key
environmental indicators in light
of three values: how well natural
ecosystem processes were being
maintained, how sustainable is
the production of goods and
services for human use, and how
well environmental laws are
being followed.
The indicarors chosen fo r
scrutiny were wate r quality and
quantity, marine and estuarine
A,esources, wetlands and riparian
•cosysrems, fish communities,
Land use/land cover (acres in l OOO's)
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Forest (1 ,086)
Woodland (1,121)
Ronge/ grosslond (914)
Lake, riparian, other (272 )
TOTAL (3,392)
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Forest (903)
Woodland (55)
Range/ grassland (0)
Lake, riparian, other (l 04)
Agriculture (l,959)
Ullll Urban (371)
TOTAL(3,392)
forest and agricultural ecosystems,
urban areas, and biological
diversity.
The greatest opportunity for
improving Oregon's environment
lies on private and state-owned
lands, the panel concludes. W ith
few exceptions, environmental
problems "are most critical in the
lowlands of the major river
basins- hisro rically the wetlands,
woodlands, and grasslands- that
Oregonians have intensively
developed for homes, cities,
farms, and ranches."
The 300-page study was
commissioned by the Oregon
Progress Board. An 80-page summary is available o n the Web at
www.econ.state.or.us/opb. The
summary may also be requested
in paper form from Zoe Johnson
at 503-986-0039.
This map, from
the State of the
Oregon Environment
Report, shows
historical a nd
current land cover in
the W illamette
Valley.
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Rebecca Talbott, FM '84, a
recreation specialist on the
Humboldt-Toiyabe National
Forest in Nevada, was selected fo r
a prestigious Loeb Fellowship in
Advanced Environmental Studies
at Harvard University. She was
one of only 11 selected for the
competitive prize. Talbott is also
the wi nner of a Legends award
from the American Recreation
Coalition in recognition of her
significant contribution to public
enjoyment and stewardship of the
nation's public lands.
Talbott is interagency partnership coordinator for the
Outside Las Vegas Foundation.
She coordinates the partnership
efforrs of the Forest Service,
National Park Service, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, and Bureau
of Land Management to preserve
the public lands surrounding Las
Vegas. She also researches partnership strategies, focusing on how
linkages between people and
places are builr, and specifically
on the role of nongovernmental
organizations in helping agencies
build community stewardship.
"I've always been passionate
about public lands," says Talbott.
"Through my work with partnerships and outfitters, I am convinced that when we involve people in the care of public lands, we
build long-term stewardship,
awareness, and even advocacy for
the resource."
The Loeb Fellowship brings
mid-career professionals to the
Harvard School of Design for an
individualized course of study
aimed at helping them pursue
their vocations in such a way as to
improve the quality of the natural
environment.
Nicholas J . IGrkmire '56 was
elected Fellow of the
Washington Society of
Ameri can Foresters. Kirkmire,
owner of NJK Associates in
Olympia, has held several SAF
positions since becoming a
member in 1954. H e served on
the 1999 SAF National
Convention arrangements committee, and he currently serves
as editor of the SAF Southwest
Washington C hap ter newsletter.
He has chaired the Washington
Agriculture and Forestry
Education Foundation and is a
past president of the Pacific
Logging Conference. H e was a
principal lobbyist on the 1982 •
legislation that created the
Mount St. Helens National
Volcanic Monument.
OUTREACH EDUCATION EVENT SCHEDULE
For workshop information, contact the Outreach Education office ac 541-737-2329, e-mail outreach@for.orst.edu,
or visit their web site at, www.cof.orst.edu/coflextended/conferen/
June 21 - 22
July 11 - 19
July 22 - 27
July 24- 27
July 26 - 27
August 12 - 17
September 20 - 21
October 18
November 7 - 9
Introduction to ArcView GIS Applications in Natural Resources
IUFRO Canopy Processes : Linking Structure and Function in Canopies
Tree Biotechnology in the New Millennium
IUFRO 5-Needle Pine Breeding and Genetic Resources
Introduction to ArcView GIS Applications in Natural Resources
Oregon Forest Institute for Teachers 2001
Advanced ArcView GIS Applications in Natural Resources
A Landmark Assessment of Oregon's Forest Sustainability
Advanced Variable Probability Sampling
November 27 - December - 6
Natural Resources Institute Module 2: Decision Maldng and Systems
Thinking for Natural Resource Professionals
How to Dry Lumber for Quality and Profit
December 3 - 6
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Marianne Barker@orst.edu.
T he scholarship campaign
was started last spring by a group
from the O SU Forestry Alum ni
wait too long- the campaign ends Association led by Dan Green '69
and Jim Rombach '64. More than
on Fernhopper Day, May 19,
2001 , when the first scholarship
$10,000 was raised in the first 30
will be awarded. Contributions are days. To dace the fund has
always welcome.
$25,000.
Forestry alumni received a
The scholarship hono rs Dean
letter in mid-April giving them an Emeritus George Brown fo r his
opportunity to make a contribumany years of service co Oregon
tion. If you'd like to tal(e care of it Seate University and the fo restty
ere's still ti me to
onate to the George
W. Brown Endowed
Scholarship in Forestry, but don't
while it's on your mind, or if
you're not an alum but wan t to
give, please get in touch with
Marianne Barker at the OSU
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oundation, 54 11737-2900,
profession. The fund will support
th e education of high-achieving
full-tim e undergraduate students
enrolled in any major at the
College of Forestry.
Dean Emeritus
George Brown at
PUBLICATIONS OF NOTE
Fernhopper Day,
.
forest lands. There's also a "break
T he second installment of
room" where users can chat with
Project FLO W (Forem y
Learning Opportunities fo r
colleagues or ask questions of the
Workers) is just out from the
Web site host. Project FLOW is
Forestry Med ia Center. Ir's a
available free from the O regon
reaching package consisting of a
Forest Reso urces Institute, its
m ajor underwri ter. Telephone
Web site and a video newsletter
OFRI at 503-229-6718, or e-mail
called O regon Forestry Journal.
T he project is aimed at educating them at Info@ofri.com.
fores t industry workers about natJust out from the Forestry
ural resource issues. Project
Communications Group (formerly Forestty Publications) is Guide
FLOW's interactive Web site
(www.foresclearn.org) provides
to Reforestation in Western
Oreg on (Research Contri bution
short, informative lesso ns on the
31), by Robin Rose, Department
fu ndam entals of forests and
of Forest Science, and Paul
foresny. The two companion
"O regon Forest Journal" videos
Morgan of the Oregon
scuss clearcutci ng and the man- Department of Forestry. T he 50agement of wild life habitat on
page, informatio n-packed guide is
a joint project of O SU and ODF.
Ir's aimed at forest landowners
who want to know legal requirements, proven methods, and
practical tips for successful reforestation after harvest or affo restatio n of nonforested land. The
publication is available fro m the
O regon Department of Forestty's
d istrict offices. Call the one
nearest you to order a copy.
Here is a selected list of
repri nts available fro m the
Forestry Communications
Gro up. You may order them by
calling 541-737-4271; or from
the web site: www.cof.orst.edu/
cof/pubs/home.
2000, upon learning
that a scholarship
would be named in
his honor.
cont'd. on page 2 1
IN MEMORIAM: CLARENCE RICHEN
then went back to the School of
Forestry for four years as an
instructor. During the summers,
he worked for several timber
companies in Oregon and
Washington.
In 1941 he was working for
the Weyerhaeuser Co. at Tacoma,
Wash. Weyerhaeuser was embarking on what was then an innovative idea-keeping and consolidating its lands for the active
management of second-growth
timber.
Richen participated in a historic moment that summer. He
told the story in a 1994 interview
with Focus on Forestry. "One
day," Richen said, "My boss,
Clyde Martin, called me in and
introduced me to the company's
P.R. man [Roderic Olzendam].
This man told me he was trying
to come up with a name for this
new land management idea. He
said he'd been thinking of calling
these lands 'tree farms.' He wantarence Richen of
rcland, forest indus- ed to know what I, as a sample
member of the public, thought of
ry leader, Forestry
alumnus (FM '35), and longtime the name. "
Richen thought it expressed
supporter of OSU and the
the
company's
intentions very
College of Forestry, died in
well. He was present at the dediDecember of an apparem heart
cation
ofWeyerhaeuser's Clemons
anack. He was 88.
Richen was born in Portland Tree Farm near Momesano,
on June 6, 1912. After graduating Wash., the nation's first, in June
of 194 l . Washington's governor,
from Oregon State in 1935, he
Anhur B. Langlie, delivered the
spent two years working on logging time-and-motion studies for keynote address.
In 1942 Richen went to
the Pacific Northwest Forest and
work in the timberlands departRange Experiment Station. He
ment of Crown Willamette Paper
Co. The company became Crown
Zellerbach after a 1947 merger.
Richen rose to become general
manager of timber operations in
1955 and vice president for
timber in 1957. He retired in
1977, having added hundreds of
thousands of acres to the
company's holdings. He continued
to manage a family tree farm in
Columbia and Clatsop counties
after he retired.
Richen had a long history of
service to the forest industry, the
community, and OSU. H e was
active with the National Alliance
of Businessmen, which helps
Vietnam-era veterans, ex-offend_(
ers, and disadvantaged youth. He
was chairman of the Oregon
Employment Council under
Governor Vic Atiyeh and a
member of the Willamette River
Greenway Committee under
Governor Bob Straub. He served
on the National Forest Research
Advisory Committee, the Oregon
Board of Forestry, and the Forest
Research Laboratory (FRL)
Advisory Committee.
H e was a strong supporter of
OSU and the College of Forestry.
His conrriburions supported
scholarships, research, lectures,
athletics, and other University
and College activities. He was an
OSU Foundation trustee from
1979 to 1992 and continued to
serve the Foundation board in an
honoraty capacity. Richen
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Service Award in 197 4, the
Beschta, R.L., M.R. Pyles, AE.
highest alumni award bestowed
Skaugset, and C.G. Surfleet.
by the University. He was a
2000. Peakflow responses to
long-time trustee of the Dorothy forest practices in the Western
0. Hoener Memorial Fund, the
Cascades of Oregon, USA.
Journal ofHydrology 233:
College of Forestry's most
prestigious scholarship fund.
102-120.
"Clarence Richen was a great
Hairston-Strang, A.B., and
friend of the College of Forestry
P.W. Adams. 2000. Riparian
and a very active Fernhopper,"
management area condition for
says Dean Emeritus George
timber
harvests conducted before
Brown. "He was a person who
and after the 1994 Oregon
cared abour our College and its
students and shared his experience Water Protection rules. Western
and insights with me and with
J ournal of Applied Forestry
15(3): 147-153.
every Dean since he graduated.
'-'We will miss him greatly."
Richen is survived by his
sons, Peter Richen of San
Francisco and Forrest Richen of
Portland, and his daughter,
Marilyn Richen of Portland.
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Law, B.E., M. Williams, P.M.
Anthoni, D.D. Baldocchi, and
M.H. Unsworth. 2000.
Sheppard, L.A., A.M. Brunner,
K.V. Krutovskii, W.H.
Rottman, J.S. Skinner, S.S.
Vollmer, and S.H. Strauss.
2000. A D EFICIENS homolog
from the dioecious tree black
cottonwood is expressed in
female and male floral meristems
of the two-whorled, unisexual
flowers. Plant Physiology 124:
627-639.
Waltz, M.E., Jr., T.E. McLain,
Measuring and modeling season- T.H. Miller, and R.J. Leichti.
al variation of carbon dioxide
2000. Discrete bracing analysis
and water vapour exchange of a
Pinus ponderosa forest subject to
soil water deficit. Global
Change Biology 6:613-630.
Lawrence, R.L., and W.J.
Ripple. 2000. Fifteen years of
revegetation of Mount St.
Helens: A landscape-scale analysis. Ecology 81(10) : 2742-2752.
Lavery, M.R., and M.R.
Milota. 2000. voe emissions
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Ripple, W.J., and E.J. Larson.
2000. Historic aspen recruitment, elk, and wolves in northern Yellowstone National Park,
USA. Biological Conservation
95:361-370.
from Douglas-fir: Comparing a
commercial and a laboratory
kiln. Forest Products Joitrnal
50(7/8): 39-47 .
for light- fran1e wood-truss compression webs. Journal of
Structural Engineering 126:
1086-1093.
STANDING FIRM AGAINST NATURAL DISASTERS
David Rosowsky's
resea rch focuses
on the design of
wood buildings
to w ith stand
natural di sasters.
ngineering means
designing whatever
you're building to
withstand any forces it's likely to
experience during its lifetime.
Structural engineers have to lrnow
the nature of these forces-how
they're generated and how severe
they will be. And they have to
know the nature of the material,
or combination of materialswhat the strength and stiffness
properties are.
Always a complicated task,
the engineering of a structme is
made more difficult when the
material is highly variable- like
wood-and when the load is by
its nature unpredictable-as in
an earthqualce or a hurricane.
These are the challenges
structural engineer David
Rosowsky is tackling in his
research. As Richardson Chair in
Wood Engineering in the
Department of Forest Products,
Rosowsky heads a research program in structural reliability and
performance-based design of
wood frame structures, with a
particular emphasis on design to
withstand natural hazards.
The first aspect of
Rosowsky's research, structural
reliability, means, he explains,
"the application of probability to
design. " Different types of loads,
applied in different ways to different structures, have different
levels of uncertainty, in both
their magnitude and their likeli-
hood of occurrence. Structural
reliability involves calculating the
odds, just as in a game of blackjack. But the calculations are
detailed and rigorous, malcing it
possible to quantify and mathematically model the risks for
many different structural systems, materials, and environments.
Using reliability analysis,
engineers are developing the next
generation of materials standards
and design codes that call for
highly specific performance standards-not only those ensuring
human safety, but those calling
for, say, windows that will withstand a hurricane-force wind, or
walls that can resist a maximum
expected earthquake without
excessive deformation. Designing
for such specific performance
objectives is known as performance-based design, and it represents the other major component
of Rosowsky's research.
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since boyhood with the idea of
building bridges and other large
srrucrures ("when I was little I
played with Lincoln Logs and
blocks," he says) he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in structural engineering at Tufts
University. For his master's thesis
he studied the reliability of transmission lines subject ro severe
windsrorms. His Ph.D. program
at Johns H opkins rook him into
wood in a theoretical way; his docroral project examined cumulative
damage in wood structures and
rl1e use of p robabilistic methods ro
~quanti fy time effects and system
Vbehavior in wood strucru res.
Rosowsky came to OSU from
Clemson University in South
Carolina, where he helped build
one of the nation's leading research
programs in wind engineering of
low-rise structures. Most structures
in the United Stares are made of
wood, and most of these are lowrise buildings, with three scories or
fewer. T hese buildings a.re vulnerable not only to high winds and
floods, but to earthquakes, which
are of great concern along the seismic West Coast. "Disasters like
Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and
the Northridge earthquake in
1994 reminded people how vulnerable our existing building stock
is to natural disasters," says
Rosowsky.
Building codes for structures,
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material, are intended to ensure
that the people who occupy them
will be safe. Bur the dollar losses
associated with building dan1age
in such major natural disasters as
H urricane Andrew and the
Norrl1fidge quake were huge, even
though most buildings remained
standing and few lives were lost.
Perfo rmance-based d esign
can alleviate some of those losses
by making it possible to design
buildi ngs to achieve other objectives besides life safety. Such
requiremen ts would increase the
probability that a building would
w ithstand an earthquake of a
given magni tude w ith less damage, malcing ir less expensive to
repair afterward.
"Ir's not that you're trading
off safety; it's t hat you can have
other perfo rmance standards
along with safety," says
Rosowsky. "Performance-based
design places more responsibility
on the engineer, but it may promote innovative solutions-new
and more efficient ways to combine materials and struct ural
fo rms to achieve the desired performa nce objectives."
Rosowsky, who joined the
Forest Products faculty last July,
will expand OSU's wood engineering program to include
research groups in both structural
reliability and performance-based
design. "I can't think of a better
place to do this than in a u niversity having, in addition co a civil
engineering department, one of
the nation's leading programs in
forest p roducts." Rosowsky also
has an appoin tment in the
Department o f C ivi l
Engineering.
H e sees m any opportun ities
fo r fruitful collaboration, both
within the department and across
campus. Soon after he arrived, he
and O SU civil engineering professo r Solomon Yim worked
cogether to gain entrance for
OSU inco the Consortium of
U niversities fo r Research in
Earthquake Engineering
(CUREE). O ne of Rosowsky's
doctoral students is working on a
CUREE-sponsored p roject to
develop performance-based
design procedures for wood shear
wa.lls, the primary lateral-forceresisting element in most fra me
structures.
H e wants co make the
Department of Forest Products
the nation's top center of research
in structural reliability and performa nce-based design of wood
structures. "We can emerge as
t he leader," he says. "We're in the
center of the wood prod ucts
industry, and we're in a region
where designing wood structures
to withstand earthquakes is a
high priority. T his is the place to
cake wood engineering co the
next level."
SEEING THE FOREST
il paintings of a timer faller dropping a
gigantic Douglas-fir,
of a team of horses dragging a
log rhrough the miscy woods. A
rich quilt of hand-dyed fabrics
depicting a mountain stream. A
raku wall sculpture of two
salmon, tails intertwined. These
are a few of rhe 49 works in the
traveling exhibit, "Seeing the
Forest: Arr about Forests and
Forestry, 2000." Sponsored by
the OSU Extension Foresuy program, rhe exhibit has been touring Oregon since July, reaching
over 50,000 people.
Its last stop was an
Extension-sponsored conference
on family-owned forest lands,
held ar OSU in February. All rhe
art is for sale; the brochure
"Beside a mountain
stream," a quilt with
hand-dyed fabrics and
decorative yarns and
threads, by Libby
Ankarberg, and
"Burning history," an
oil painting by Jim
Denney, are two of the
works in the exhibit
"Seeing the Forest."
accompanying the exhibit lists
prices and artists' names and
addresses.
For a copy, get in touch
wirh Viviane Simon-Brown at
541-737-3197, or e-mail her at
Viviane.Simon Brown@orst.edu.
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