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M E S S A G E FROM THE DEAN
“UW graduates bring these strengths to their work: the benefits
of a broad-based education, teamwork and problem-solving
skills grounded in hands-on learning, and cutting-edge
technical knowledge and skills that come from studying at
a major research university with faculty members at the
frontiers of discovery.”
These words from a recent UW report, Fueling our State’s Economic
Future, precisely identify our College’s strengths and future
direction. Providing knowledge and leadership for sustainable
management of natural resources and the environment is a
formidable challenge. We have taken steps to better meet this
challenge. Our newly approved Environmental Science and Resource
Management undergraduate curriculum, integrating six former
programs, will provide a flexible course of study for those interested
in science and management and provides the foundation for
graduate study in professional or learned areas. Our restructured
Paper Science and Engineering undergraduate curriculum will
provide students with training, tools, and experience for success in
the pulp, paper, and allied professions. Our College organization has
moved from two academic divisions to a single faculty headed by a
chair and vice-chair.
Recognition that a focus on sustainability requires better integration of ecological, economic, and social sciences, as well as closer
connections among faculty, staff, and students, was an important
impetus for these changes. The new programs and organization
support the strengths identified by the UW report.
Key to these strengths is the excellence of our graduate and
research programs. Since 1974, the UW has led the nation’s public
universities in federal research awards. As an important part of this
great enterprise, our College has long been recognized as a leader
in forestry research. We must think now about new ways to
enhance this historic strength. How faculty are inspired and inspire
others to do innovative research keeps an institution on the cutting
edge — poised to contribute to tomorrow’s solutions. We must seek
faculty who can create new knowledge through collaborative,
innovative research, while contributing to professional needs at
both undergraduate and graduate levels. This means that we must
change how we define future faculty positions and responsibilities.
In 1997, we hired two faculty members, John Marzluff and Clare
Ryan. They soon began collaborating with faculty from the College
and across campus and, after several years of rewriting funding
proposals, were awarded a prestigious $2.7 million NSF Integrative
Graduate Education Training Research (IGERT) award in urban
ecology. The program has grown and continues to attract funding
and students, generating enthusiasm and a profound respect for
the challenges of interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and research.
Marzluff and Ryan also cover our professional needs in wildlife
science and natural resources policy, respectively. They provide a
model for our future — innovative graduate education and research
that also contributes to professional programs so vital to our state.
Our graduates will have a solid, broad-based education in natural
resources science and management — and the competitive
advantage that comes from study at a major research university.
They will bring the strengths of teamwork, problem-solving,
hands-on learning, and cutting-edge knowledge and skills to their
employers and to their communities across the state, the region,
and the country.
Dense forests in the inland west are at risk for uncharacteristically intense wildfires. Photo: University Photography
Wildfire in the West:
Topic of upcoming Denman Forestry Issues Series
A combination of past logging practices, tree planting, decades of fire suppression, and reductions in
timber harvest has resulted in dense stands of small-diameter trees in many areas of the inland west.
Overstocked, drought stressed, and prone to insect infestation, some of these forests are crowded with
as many as 3,000 trees per acre, putting them at high risk for wildfires of high severity, uncommon for
historic forests in this region.
Historically, fire was an important disturbance process in western forest ecosystems, sustaining
healthy forests through its effects on wildlife habitat, species composition, nutrient cycling, and
other attributes of ecosystem structure and function. Because natural fire regimes have been altered,
uncharacteristically intense, large fires now occur with increasing frequency. In response, active fire
management currently includes such strategies as allowing some fires to burn, prescribed burning,
and thinning to reduce fuel loads. How these uncharacteristically intense fires alter the landscape —
affecting wildlife habitat and understory plants, degrading watersheds, risking human health and
economic values in nearby communities — and threaten overall ecological functioning in these
stands is being studied from a variety of perspectives by College researchers.
Professor Jim Agee has studied historical fire regimes in the inland west to understand how an
ecosystem-based approach of active fire management can help change potential fire behavior and
effects. Students in his fire ecology lab are comparing the effects of spring and fall prescribed fire
on the resistance of ponderosa pine to bark beetle attack and participating in a national network
of research sites evaluating the effects of thinning and fire on ecosystem processes, among other
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In this issue
“ The great strength of a research institution is
a faculty committed to inquiry across a wide
range of scientific fields.”
WILDFIRE IN THE WEST
NEW CORE COURSES
JAPANESE HOUSE CONSTRUCTION
MILLER SEED VAULT
ALUMNI FOCUS
COLLEGE NEWS
WINTER 2004
Researchers are also exploring the consequences of wildfire management
activities for other forest attributes. Researchers in Professor Charlie Halpern’s lab
are exploring the consequences of fire suppression and the effects of silvicultural
thinning and prescribed burning on forest understory and meadow plant
communities. Projects include studies of endemic plants in the Wenatchee
Mountains that require fire for species’ persistence, large-scale surveys of forest
understory responses to thinning and prescribed burning, and retrospective
studies of conifer encroachment into montane meadows.
(Left) Example of a typical fringe oak stand with Scot’s broom in the understory. (Right) A typical
prescribed fire that is applied in the summer, resulting in herb and shrub topkill but little oak scorch.
Wildfire in the West continued
projects. The lab is collaborating with the College’s Precision Forestry Cooperative
on projects researching the utility of Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) and
radar interferometry remotely sensed data to estimate crown fire fuel density, type,
and condition. The lab also cooperates with the USDA Forest Service on projects
studying the effects of landscape fuel manipulations on fire behavior, fire in small
diameter stands, and multi-national fire research applications.
The College’s Fire and Mountain Ecology Lab, led by Professor Dave Peterson,
conducts a wide range of fire science and fire ecology research in national forests,
national parks, and beyond in cooperation with the USFS PNW Station’s Pacific Fire
and Environmental Research Applications Team. Peterson and his students are
studying the fire history of eastern Washington and the Cascade Range, the effects
of forest thinning on fire hazard, the interaction of fire and climate in western North
America, and the effects of large wildfires on tree mortality.
Researchers in the College’s Rural Technology Initiative are offering landowners
and policy makers a new software package to help determine the economic
feasibility of thinning small-diameter trees to reduce the risk of catastrophic fires
and disease outbreaks. On Washington’s Okanogan National Forest and Oregon’s
Fremont National Forest, where some of the region’s worst fires have occurred in
recent years, the most effective treatment tested using the software preserved
ponderosa pine and western larch, while taking the smallest trees of other species
until a targeted density was achieved. This approach typically left between 40 and
100 of the largest trees per acre and rarely removed trees larger than 12 inches in
diameter. Unfortunately, markets are weak or nonexistent for the small diameter
trees removed under this scenario — the smallest diameter logs, for instance,
can’t be used for lumber. The software helps weigh the economics of thinning in
such cases to develop cost-effective approaches.
For Professor Jerry Franklin, the issue is not simply uncharacteristic fires. “These
fires will eliminate important structural stand elements, including the residual
large, old pines that we will never see again if we allow them to burn. These
residual old trees are under intense risk, and ground fuels and ladder fuels are
important elements of their threat. Further, encroachment from shade-tolerant
species are almost certainly killing the old pines even without fire, just through
competitive effects. We are losing this old pine legacy so critical to ecological
functioning in the inland west.”
Agee says, “Fire will be in our future whether we like it or not. We can choose the
type of fire we want to deal with and reduce wildfire damage by restoration efforts
to change potential fire behavior and effects.” Adds Franklin, “We need to think
carefully about what we really need to accomplish. It is not simply to alter fire
behavior. It is to try to insure that legacies still present from historic stands are
not lost so that they can continue to fulfill a broad array of ecological functions,
including habitat. We do not want to simply view this as a fire behavior issue,
but begin to view it as an ecological issue.”
What seems certain is that a simplistic, one-solution approach will not work — and
that a host of new challenges such as introduced exotic plant and insect species, the
growing importance of watershed resources, and increasing human habitation at the
urban/forest interface will add to the complexities of wildfire management. These
complexities, as they relate to federal forest lands, is the topic of the College’s next
Denman Forestry Issues series, planned for early March on the UW campus.
1895 Bitterroot National Forest
Natural forest conditions. 1895 photo shows natural
forest stand conditions that evolved from regularly
occurring, low-intensity, surface burning. The forest was
open and dominated by fire-tolerant, fire-adapted
ponderosa pine.
1980 Bitterroot National Forest
Unmanaged forest. The 1980 photo from the same site
shows how the forest has changed dramatically since 1895.
Small trees have established into dense thickets. These fireintolerant tree species now crowd the forest, predisposing
the area to insect infestations, disease outbreaks, and
catastrophic wildfires.
New Core Courses Emphasize Real-World Problems
The College’s newly approved undergraduate curriculum, Environmental Science
and Resource Management (ESRM) uses the array of biological-social interactions
in the Pacific Northwest as a learning environment for problem-based interdisciplinary inquiry. ESRM is anchored by a junior-level core sequence that emphasizes
real-world problems integrating knowledge areas of physical, biological, and
social sciences. The courses feature the world-class outdoor laboratory available
from the Pacific Ocean to the interior of Washington, from tidelands to alpine
landscapes, and from dense urban environments to rock and ice. They present
broad, synthetic physical, biological, social, and economic principles
that govern management, stewardship, and restoration of biological systems.
The collaborative learning teaching method enables students to become problem
solvers and increases awareness of opportunities in environmental and natural
resource management.
Two of the core courses — ESRM 303, “Preserving and Conserving Wildlands,”
and ESRM 304, “Environmental Resource Assessment: Measuring and Monitoring,”
were taught for the first time in Autumn 2003.
ESRM 303 develops three broad and interlinking perspectives about wildlands:
the continuum from wild to intensively managed or impacted; the importance of
scales, such as space and time; and assessing conditions and change in systems
along the continuum. Learning modules combine traditional lectures and discussions with a collaborative learning studio format. Field trips and a final project
provide the context for learning, integrated around a hypothetical case study in
which student teams develop a detailed description of a wildland resource and
respond to a threat to this resource from multiple stakeholders’ points of view.
Professor Tom Hinckley reports that a highlight of the Autumn 2003 course was
a field trip to the Yakama Nation in which students learned about cultural differences and culturally unique approaches to natural resource management,
including fire as a management tool. The students also had an opportunity to
learn about job opportunities in environmental and natural resource management
from two of the Nation’s natural resource managers, both CFR alumni.
Professor Bob Gara with ESRM 303 students on field trip to Federation Forest,
east side of Cascade Mountains.
ESRM 304 exposes students to the scientific method, hypothesis testing processes
for developing research questions, and field and lab measurement procedures
from a diverse set of disciplines. The course develops familiarity with methods that
researchers use to produce relevant, unbiased information; provides basic field
skills from each of several scientific discipline areas; considers how the basic
computational procedures of introductory statistics support scientific research;
provides, through a case study, the context in which natural resource issues
commonly require an interdisciplinary research approach; and develops experience in professional communication skills through technical writing and oral
presentation. The focus during the Autumn 2003 course was an integrated case
study of forest land use in nearby Lee Forest, which is managed for research
purposes by the College.
College News
CFR-UWAA Cosponsor
Lecture Series
February 12, 2004
A Fork in the Road: The Challenges of Forest Stewardship
in the 21st Century
JERRY FRANKLIN, PROFESSOR OF ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE
February 26, 2004
Still Batty After All These Years? Contemplating the Future
of Bats in the Managed Forests of the Pacific Northwest
STEPHEN WEST, ASSOCIATE DEAN AND PROFESSOR
OF WILDLIFE ECOLOGY
March 11, 2004
Are Cities for the Birds? Balancing Our Needs and Desires
with Ecological Function in Urbanizing Regions
JOHN MARZLUFF, PROFESSOR OF WILDLIFE SCIENCE
To register, or for more information, call 206-543-0540
or go to UWalum.com.
New Denman Endowed
Professorship
Dick and Mary Ellen Denman, longtime supporters of
the College, have generously created the Denman
Endowed Professorship in Sustainable Resource
Sciences. This gift will help the College attract and keep
distinguished faculty involved in the research and
teaching of sustainable resource sciences. The
endowment joins previous Denman endowments
supporting the College — the Denman Professorship in
Paper Science and Engineering, the Denman
Endowment for Student Excellence in Forest Resources,
and the Anson Moody Endowed Scholarship in Pulp
and Paper Sciences, through the Washington Pulp and
Paper Foundation.
Merrill Hall Groundbreaking
A groundbreaking ceremony on October 1st at the
Center for Urban Horticulture (CUH) marked the start
of construction to replace Merrill Hall, destroyed in an
arson fire bombing in May 2001. Dean Bruce Bare
reaffirmed that “It is a testament to the will and desire
of thousands of people and organizations — who gave
their time, energy, and financial resources — that this
wanton act was not allowed to stand.”
“The state, the UW, and donors came together during
extraordinarily stressful times, including the current
economic downturn, to raise money when it was
needed and now the project is a reality,” said Tom
Hinckley, CUH director. For example, after the bids
opened in August came in higher than expected, the
UW provided funding for another $800,000 for the
project. The $7.2 million for design and construction
includes money from the UW and the state, as well as
about $1 million in private gifts. Construction is
expected to take 11 months. The rebuilt Merrill Hall will
be one of the first LEED Certified buildings in the state’s
university system. And, says Hinckley, “In spite of the
arson attack, the new building has not been planned
as a bunker. While the building incorporates the latest
fire-prevention technology and a security system, it has
been planned so that it is even more open to the UW,
the neighborhood, and horticultural communities.”
Update on Faculty Searches
Searches for two tenured full-professor positions are
underway in the College with successful completion of
the searches expected during this academic year.
Professor Gordon Bradley is chairing a committee to fill
the position of Director of the Center for Urban
Horticulture and Washington Park Arboretum. This
position also carries the title of Orin and Althea Soest
Chair for Urban Horticulture. The position is being
widely advertised nationally and internationally.
Committee membership includes UW faculty, students,
and staff and representatives from the Arboretum
Foundation, Northwest Horticultural Society, Seattle
City Parks, WSU Extension, and the green industry.
The committee expects to interview finalists for the
position in March.
Professor Dave Briggs is chairing a committee to fill the
position of Director of the Precision Forestry Cooperative (PFC), a component of the state-funded Advanced
Technology Initiative. Committee members include
faculty from the College, the Departments of Civil and
Environmental Engineering and Earth and Space
Sciences, and representatives from the PFC Executive
Advisory Board. This faculty member will hold the
Corkery Family Endowed Chair in Forest Resources, as
well as a joint faculty appointment with another UW
academic unit, depending on disciplinary background.
A search to fill the position of Director of the Center for
International Trade in Forest Products (CINTRAFOR),
currently held by Research Professor Paul Boardman,
will be underway in January. The College is indebted to
Boardman for his years of service as CINTRAFOR
Director as he returns to a position in the private sector.
Highlights
October’s Denman Forestry Issues Series, “Federal Land
Management Policy,” featured Mark Rey, USDA Under
Secretary of Natural Resources and Environment,
addressing issues in current natural resources
management. College faculty, including Professors Jerry
Franklin, Bob Lee, Bruce Lippke, John Marzluff, and Dave
Peterson presented additional perspectives on land
management policy issues and stewardship challenges
of federal forest lands in the 21st century. Attended by
110 invited guests from a spectrum of natural resource
stakeholders, the program was televised on UWTV
throughout December and is available on streaming
video from the UWTV website.
The Washington Pulp and Paper Foundation (WPPF)
announced a gift of $120,000 from a trust established
under the will of Lennart A.Lundberg. The gift establishes
the Lennart Lundberg Endowed Scholarship in recognition
of the donor’s interest in students, education, and WPPF.
The College’s transformed undergraduate curricula,
Paper Science and Engineering (PSE) and Environmental
Science and Resource Management (ESRM), have been
approved. Faculty are developing specialized
undergraduate pathways for ESRM.
Rick Gustafson, Professor in Paper Science and
Engineering, has been voted Chair of the Faculty as the
College restructured from two academic divisions to a
single faculty body. Gustafson previously held the position
of Chair of the Management and Engineering Division.
College Dean’s Club members enjoyed a November 6th
dinner in the Lockwood Forest Club Room, followed by
a talk on forestry communities by Professor Bob Lee,
to inaugurate a showing of the multi-media exhibit,
“The Vanishing Logger,” at UW’s Odegaard
Undergraduate Library. Sisters Cheryle and Char Easter,
the photographer-writer team who created the exhibit,
also gave a slide presentation.
College faculty and staff participation in workshops
during Autumn 2003 included a November 7th workshop
in Portland, Oregon on “Overcoming Barriers to
Sustainable Forestry,” and a November 18th conference
in Puyallup, Washington on “Innovation for Survival of
the Northwest Forest Sector: An Integrated Approach.”
Alumni Focus
Arbor Day Fair 2004 needs your
help — May 5-7, 2004
The Arbor Day Fair, a wildly successful event conceived
by the College of Forest Resources Alumni Association
(CFRAA) and jointly sponsored by the College and
CFRAA brings over 2,000 elementary school children to
the College each year. Alumni involvement, enthusiasm,
and support are essential to its existence.
Volunteers are needed to assist at the learning stations
where children experience many aspects of forestry and
related sciences. Demonstrations and hands-on activities
include papermaking, recreation, wildlife, forest soils,
forest products, and forestry careers. Faculty, staff,
students, and alumni provide leadership and training to
assure that all participants are rewarded by an
exceptional educational experience. Arbor Day Fair is an
opportunity to participate in a unique outreach program
while getting reacquainted with fellow alumni and
College faculty, staff, and students.
Volunteers are needed each of the three days from 8:30
a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Morning coffee and pastries are
provided to all volunteers. The CFRAA appreciates any
support you can provide, and especially thanks those
who have been so generous with their time in the past.
Please sign up with coordinator Bev Gonyea by phone
(206-526-5535), by mail (Box 352100, Seattle, WA
98195-2100), or by email (arborday@u.washington.edu).
Be sure to include the day (s) you can volunteer.
CFRAA President’s Report
Professor Emeritus Dale Cole (’55, ’63) reports on
College of Forest Resources Alumni Association (CFRAA)
events: “This past year was a successful and eventful
period for the CFRAA. In addition to the 2003 Arbor Day
Fair, we had a highly successful annual meeting and
banquet in November. Nearly 100 alumni and guests
attended the banquet. Many also attended the annual
business meeting and the College’s Research Showcase
on Urban Ecology, presented by Professor John Marzluff
and graduate students in the program.
At the annual banquet, Colleen Ponto (’81), CFRAA past
president and founder of Arbor Day Fair, and the late
Robert McLachlan (’59) received Honored Alumni
awards. Distinguished Achievement awards went to
James E. Brown (’62) and William D. Hagenstein (’38).
Bill Hagenstein is the first alumnus to receive both the
Honored Alumni and Distinguished Achievement
awards. Brian Boyle, former Washington State Land
Commissioner and currently a College staff member and
Chair of the College Visiting Committee, was named
Honorary Alumnus. Dean Bruce Bare reported on the
status of the College, highlighting the many changes
in organization, curriculum, and staffing that have
occurred during the past year, as well as challenges
facing the College in the coming year. Banquet
speakers John and Amy Osaki presented a program
on “Hiking the Magnificent Mountains of Europe,”
featuring excellent slides and an informative
commentary.
A special tribute prior to the banquet honored the late
Professor Emeritus David R. M. Scott. Mrs. Carolyn
Scott and their son David joined in the program. Dean
Bare, Professor Tom Hinckley, and I and other alumni
Jim Lassoie (’68, ’75) and Bob Dick (’74) spoke about
Scott’s significant impacts on the graduate and
undergraduate students of the College, as well as the
silviculture of the region. I was pleased to announce
that the CFRAA and the College were exploring a
fundraising campaign to establish the David R. M.
Scott Endowed Fund, that upon reaching a minimum
of $250,000 will become the David R. M. Scott
Professorship in Forest Resources. This new fund,
along with the David R. M. Scott Endowed Scholarship,
established in 1993 to honor Scott for 32 years of
training forest professionals, will provide valuable
support for College graduate and undergraduate
students and faculty for years to come.”
Professor Tom Hinckley shows Arbor Day Fair participants
how to tell a tree’s age by counting its rings.
Alumni News
John Rombold (’03), Northwest Indian College,
and Dick Hopkins (’72), Green River Community College,
participated in Community College Outreach Day held
at the College in September. Faculty and staff from the
College and from area community colleges, as well as
UW distance learning and admissions staff, explored
ways to better coordinate transfer and recruitment to the
UW from rural community colleges in Washington State.
Gary Hartshorn (’72), formerly president of the
Organization for Tropical Studies, has assumed the post
of President and CEO of the World Forestry Center in
Portland, Oregon.
Vicki Christiansen (’83) was appointed manager of WA
Department of Natural Resource’s newly merged Central
and Southwest Regions.
Study of Japanese House Construction Provides
International Research Experience
The College’s Center for International Trade in Forest Products (CINTRAFOR)
recently completed a technical analysis of the traditional post and beam construction system used to build houses in Japan. A component of the Center’s
research on the use of wood in the Japanese residential construction industry,
the project has involved extensive research in Japan conducted by Associate
Professor Ivan Eastin and Center Director Professor Paul Boardman over a
period of several years. Key to the project’s success was the involvement of
then-doctoral student Joe Roos, who graduated from the College’s business,
economics, and quantitative methods PhD program last year.
Roos was recruited into the graduate program based on his experience in
exporting wooden building materials to Japan, his strong understanding of the
Japanese business environment, and his fluency in Japanese. As a key member of
the research team, he was involved in many meetings with Japanese post and
beam contractors and officials of Japanese industry associations. Roos also
visited Japanese construction sites to help interview carpenters and study and
document the post and beam construction technology firsthand. As the recipient
of a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to Japan, he further contributed to the success
of the project by conducting independent research on the Japanese construction
industry during his year-long fellowship. The results of this research formed the
basis of his doctoral dissertation, providing unique insights into how Japanese
construction professionals evaluate and select building materials and the factors
that influence their purchase decisions. CINTRAFOR’s Japan research program has
been further supported by the participation of several Japanese graduate students
who received graduate research assistantships from CINTRAFOR.
Ivan Eastin on construction site in Kanigawa, Japan with Daisaku Aoki (center)
and Mr. Isamu Shimodaira (President, Kanagawa Ecohouse Construction Company).
CINTRAFOR’s post and beam research in Japan is supported by funding from a
wide variety of sources — federal and state agencies as well as the forest products
industry, including private companies and industry associations. The program’s
objectives are focused on developing a better understanding of the Japanese
market for wood products, including the impact of regulatory constraints and
non-tariff barriers on the competitiveness of the U.S. forest products industry.
The next step will be a series of focus groups involving post and beam construction
professionals to evaluate the potential for a branded Douglas-fir structural lumber
product for use in the Japanese post and beam construction industry.
Seed Vault Protects At-risk Plants
A Noah’s ark of sorts, to protect seeds of rare and endangered native plants in
Washington, was recently launched at the Center for Urban Horticulture. The tworoom vault, made possible by a gift from the Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller
Charitable Foundation, has walls, floor, and ceiling able to withstand fire for four
hours. This is one of only three seed vaults in the U.S. and Canada providing such
protection, say Assistant Professor Sarah Reichard and Carolyn Alfano, program
manager for the Rare Plant Care and Conservation Program (Rare Care) based at
the Center. The Miller Foundation recently also funded staffing of the vault for
another year.
In addition to fire protection, the vault has a work area and short-term storage kept
at 60 degrees and low humidity. This offers the advantage of starting the cooling
and drying of seeds even as they are processed. Seeds from at-risk plants are
collected and frozen so that if a population dies, there will still be seed available to
reestablish it in the wild. Research applications include learning about individual
species’ seed storage behavior and germination requirements to develop
germination and seed storage protocols. Seeds are collected in ways meant to
leave native populations unaffected. The program currently has 212 seed lots
banked from 10 of Washington’s threatened plants.
Collecting and storing seed is just part of the mission of Rare Care. Students,
faculty, and a statewide network of volunteers monitor sites where endangered
plants are growing and propagate cuttings and seedlings to boost populations
where they are found in the wild. Collected seeds are also used to increase
populations before they die. Volunteers are constructing a database for the vault
that will merge Rare Care’s existing monitoring database with seed collecting and
seed banking data. The vault also supports restoration ecology work done in
several UW programs through the College and the Restoration Ecology Network.
Upcoming Events Calendar
February 6
“The Science of Watersheds,”
CWWS 2004 Annual Review
of Research, UW campus
February 12
“A Fork in the Road: The Challenges
of Forest Stewardship in the 21st
Century,” in Lecture Series:
Sustaining our Northwest World:
When Humans and Nature Collide,
UW campus
The program is embarking on an ambitious collection project for 2004-2005
through a grant from the Center for Plant Conservation. Volunteers will be
recruited and trained to collect seeds for this project, in which seeds of more than
40 of Washington’s native plants will be sent to vaults operated at several facilities.
Seeds and herbarium voucher specimens will be sent to the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew, England and to the U.S. Forest Service seed extractory in Bend,
Oregon. “We plan to collect and store seeds from the most imperiled plants first,”
Reichard says. “Our goal is to obtain and store seeds that represent all of
Washington’s native plants.”
CFR News
February 26
“Still Batty after all these Years?
Contemplating the Future of Bats in
the Managed Forests of the Pacific
Northwest,” in Lecture Series:
Sustaining our Northwest World:
When Humans and Nature Collide,
UW campus
March 11
“Are Cities for the Birds? Balancing
our Needs and Desires with
Ecological Function in Urbanizing
Regions,” in Lecture Series:
Sustaining our Northwest World:
When Humans and Nature Collide,
UW campus
March 8
“Wildfire in the West,” Denman
Forestry Issues Series, UW campus
March 14-17
Landscape Management System
(LMS) Workshop, C. L. Pack
Experimental Forest, Eatonville, WA
Northwest Horticultural Society
Lecture Series at NHS Hall, CUH
January 14
“The Garden as Art”
February 25
“The Art of Planting Design”
Please direct all corrections and inquiries to CFR News,
University of Washington, College of Forest Resources,
Box 352100, Seattle, WA 98195-2100.
EMAIL:
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PHONE:
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March 10
“Shade Gardening with New Perennials”
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