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The nearly $2 million raised during fiscal year 2007 helped ensure the excellence of our faculty and students and support
for professional and intellectual growth for the teachers, researchers, and students in all of our programs. It helped make
possible our engagement with the public we serve and enhanced our collaborations across the University of Washington
campuses and with our cooperating partners in institutions, organizations, and communities across the state, the nation,
and the globe. We deeply appreciate your contributions to discovery and exploration as we work together to sustain our
natural resources for future generations.
The three-way partnership of support from state funding, sponsored research,
and private donors helped the College achieve many successes — the following
pages highlight many of these exciting achievements and ongoing projects.
Notable accomplishments include:
• Continuing success in recruiting new faculty with the hiring of two additional assistant professors for academic year 2007-2008 in the fields of natural
resource economics and natural resource informatics (joining nine new
faculty recruited for the 2006-2007 academic year).
• Ongoing programs in forest management, forest technology transfer, and
the study of forested ecosystems carried out by the Precision Forestry Cooperative, the Rural Technology Initiative, the Stand Management Cooperative,
the Olympic Natural Resources Center, the Center for International Trade in
Forest Products, the Center for Sustainable Forestry, The Water Center, and
the Wind River Canopy Crane Research Facility.
• Progress in fundraising to implement programs at the UW Botanic Gardens,
including the Washington Park Arboretum Master Plan and the Elisabeth
C. Miller Library.
• A productive partnership with the Washington Pulp and Paper Foundation
to fund scholarships and fellowships in paper science and engineering and
bioresource sciences.
• A healthy research program, with total expenditures of nearly $8.5 million
in fiscal year 2007.
Additional achievements that we could not have accomplished without your
support and partnership include our year-long Centennial celebration, surpassing our monetary goal for Campaign UW: Creating Futures, and our ongoing
work on the Future of Washington’s Forests project, facilitated by the Northwest Environmental Forum.
The College’s Centennial Year was truly a demonstration of support from
alumni, friends, and colleagues. Our “CFR community” came together, reminisced, celebrated, and renewed our vision for the future, energizing our
commitment to answering the increasingly complex and urgent challenges
surrounding the sustainability of our environment and natural resources.
Surpassing our $17.7 million campaign goal is a testimony to the College’s 100-year legacy of philanthropy. Just as important as the monetary
achievement has been the growing awareness and support of the College’s
role in sustaining our Northwest world and beyond. To secure the College’s
future, we must all continue to support the extraordinarily talented faculty
and students who continue our legacy of excellence.
The Future of Washington’s Forests project provided an opportunity for
many stakeholders across the state to come together through the Northwest Environmental Forum to help sustain a threatened and highly valued
resource for our state — our working forests. Working with multiple and
diverse constituencies and providing input to legislative decisions, our researchers have made an important contribution to a challenge that affects
us all.
You can take pride in how our College — of which you are an integral part
— is serving the citizens of Washington and the world.
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Educating the next generation of leaders, scientists, and informed citizens
During the last two years, the College of Forest Resources recruited eleven new faculty members, strengthening its historic, one-hundred
year legacy of leadership and innovation in environmental and natural resources and broadening its expertise in emerging disciplines.
A long history of philanthropy has allowed the College to provide its faculty with support for teaching and research programs. All of these
new faces were on board by the start of the 2007-2008 academic year. In their collaborative research and educational leadership, within
the College, across the UW, and with agency, nonprofit, academic, and corporate partners, all of the College’s faculty are a vital resource
in ensuring innovative leadership and world-changing discovery by future generations. A snapshot of our new faculty faces…
Jon Bakker’s expertise in ecosystem
restoration and management strengthens
the College’s focus on sustainability in urban
and wildland landscapes. One of his current
projects is working to restore prairie and
savanna ecoystems in western Washington.
Participating in the UW’s Restoration Ecology
Network, managing the Union Bay Natural
Area, and engaging in sponsored restoration
research, the College is a leader in sustaining
valued forest and urban landscapes. This
leadership role is greatly enhanced by private
support for its restoration and rare plant
conservation programs.
Renata Bura, natural products chemist and
Denman Professor in Pulp and Paper Science,
is researching the conversion of biomass into
ethanol, an emerging field in bioresource science
and technology. The Professorship, along with the
Denman Chair in Bioresource Science, supports
the College’s new center of excellence that is
discovering how to use renewable raw materials
as a source of energy, fuel, and chemicals.
Sharon Doty’s work on phytoremediation — using
plants to suck up toxic materials in contaminated
sites — supports the College’s expanding new
initiatives in bioresource science. She is also
working on increasing the efficiency of biofuel
production from non-food crops. Several of her
graduate students have received scholarships and
fellowships from donor-supported funds.
Greg Ettl directs the Center for Sustainable
Forestry at Pack Forest. With expertise in
silviculture and forest ecology, he is developing
the Center’s programs in sustainable forest
management through research, demonstration,
and technology transfer. C.E. Pack Experimental
Forest, established in 1926 through the philanthropy of Charles Lathrop Pack, continues to
receive private support from the David B. Thorud
Endowed Fund for Pack Forest.
The College shares Dean Glawe’s expertise in
plant pathology with Washington State University
(WSU), where he also holds a faculty appointment.
With research focusing on mycology and taxonomic databases, Glawe also edits the online
journal Pacific Northwest Fungi and is a co-founder
of the Pacific Northwest Fungi Project.
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Collaboration with WSU is an important College
resource; private support for joint projects such
as the Rural Technology Initiative helps sustain
this valuable relationship.
Soo Kim is discovering management practices
that use less water and reduce runoff in urban
landscapes, and researching plants’ adaptation
to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide
concentrations. Using the Washington Park
Arboretum as the research site, he is estimating
the carbon budget of urban forests to assess
their ecological benefits and costs in the context
of climate change. Private support for the
Washington Park Arboretum strengthens its role
as a valued research and educational resource.
Josh Lawler’s expertise in conservation biology
and landscape ecology contributes to the
College’s integrating theme of sustainability.
His work focuses on how human activities
affect ecological systems at large spatial scales,
including improving conservation tools and
studying the effects of climate change on species
distribution.
David Trzil
Douglas Andersen
Sue Anderson
Robert Antieau
Wendy Asplin
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Salman Aziz
Adela Backiel
Linda Beeman
Philip Beguhl
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Mark Benner
Matt Bennett
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L. Monika Moskal’s work with the Precision
Forestry Cooperative focuses on applied
spatio-temporal multi-scale modeling of forest
and vegetation characteristics, patterns, and
processes, using remote sensing, GIS, and
geospatial techniques. The cooperative works
to ensure that the practice of forestry produces
economic as well as environmental benefits.
Support for the College’s precision forestry
initiatives comes from a wide range of public
Christian Torgersen leads the Cascadia Field
Station of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Forest
and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center. He
studies spatial heterogeneity in aquatic and
terrestrial ecosystems to identify how scale of
observation influences our understanding of
ecological patterns and processes. The field
station, housed at the College, is an example of
longstanding collaboration with public agencies
that strengthens the College’s research and
and private organizations.
education programs.
Sergey Rabotyagov contributes to the
College’s international leadership in natural
resource economics. His interests include
designing pollution permit markets, mitigating
uncertainty in agricultural soil carbon offsets,
and developing technologies to solve nonpoint water pollution. Collaborating with the
Center for International Trade in Forest Products
and the Northwest Environmental Forum,
the College’s natural resource economists are
helping to sustain the region’s rural, resourcebased economies.
Sandor Toth’s expertise in natural resource
informatics supports the College’s expanding
leadership role in developing quantitative
decision support tools to aid forest and natural
resource managers. He focuses on building
and testing mathematical models that can
quantify and visualize the resource trade-offs
and production possibilities between conflicting
management objectives, including non-timber
forest benefits.
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Advancing cutting edge research and breakthrough technologies
Research and innovation on the cutting edge has been “business as usual” at the College since its founding in 1907. During
the last year College faculty, students, and research staff investigated the use of transgenic poplar plants to remediate harmful
pollution, studied the social and psychological benefits of trees on the urban landscape, formed a UW Bioenergy Group
to research the use of biomass from forests and agricultural wastes as an alternative source of energy and fuel, and used
precision forestry tools to help ensure standardized wood quality for a more efficient use of timber for forest products.
Biomass Conversion to Biofuels
Using waste biomass to produce energy can
reduce the use of fossil fuels, reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, and reduce pollution and waste
management problems. A recent publication by
the European Union highlighted the potential
for waste-derived bioenergy to contribute to the
reduction of global warming. But biomass-derived
ethanol is still too expensive to compete with fossil
fuels without subsidies, and requires a greater
amount of processing to produce ethanol by
fermentation. Researchers at the College, including
members of a newly-formed UW Bioenergy Group,
are approaching the problem from a number of
Poplar Science
different angles — using wheat straw left after
harvesting or low-quality, small diameter trees
from forest thinnings as the “waste biomass”;
enhancing the efficiency of biofuel production
using endophytic microorganisms; and natural
products chemistry research into the bioconversion
of lignocellulosic biomass (plant biomass that is
composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin)
to ethanol. Assistant Professor Renata Bura, holder
of the Denman Professorship in Pulp and Paper
Science, is also researching the conversion of fastgrowing poplars to ethanol, with gift support from
HM3, Inc.
Photo: P. stipitis CBS 6054 is the best of only a few yeasts known to
ferment xylose (found in hemecellulose) to ethanol in high yield.
What do you get when you cross a rabbit with a
tree? Less pollution. If that doesn’t strike you as
particularly funny, that’s because it’s no joke. CFR
researchers, including Assistant Professor Sharon
Doty, Research Professor Stuart Strand, graduate
students Jun Wong Kang and Glenda Singleton,
and research staff Zareen Khan and Azra Vajzovic,
working with UW, Oregon State University, and
Purdue University colleagues, recently discovered
that poplar trees became extra-good at gobbling
up toxic chemicals from the air and water when
they’d been inoculated with rabbit genes. Suddenly
the trees were capable of neutralizing benzene,
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John and Constance Sidles
Robert Thomas
Keith McGonagill
Reiko Myers
Jerry and Corinne Reeves
Stuart Simon
Edwin Tolstrup
Catherine McGowan
Justine and Charles Nagel
Mary Reid
Nancy Totton
Margaret and William
McLaughlin
Richard Nelsen
Jackie Rick
Charles Simrell and Deborah
Giles
Kennard Nelson
Stephen and Gloria Ricketts
Nils Sjoberg
Brent and Bonnie Trim
Matthew McLaughlin
Henry Noble and Helen Gilbert
Philip Rigdon
Jeffrey and Joan Slottow
Dean Tsuji
Bryan McMeekin
Paul and Joann O’Bernier
Michael Rivera
James Trappe
Kenneth Walters
Karen Wolf
Frank Wright
Fumiko and Richard Yamasaki
Clarence Yarnell
Ronald Yarnell
Helmut Zahn
Eva Zanassi
Richard Zarnowitz
Tara and Paul Zimmerman
Without natural resources life itself is impossible.
—GIFFORD PINCHOT
Wood Quality Evaluation
vinyl chloride, and a host of other cancer-causing
toxins. The discovery raises all the usual concerns
about genetic manipulation and unintended
consequences to the ecosystem. But handled
cautiously, the scientists say, it also holds a good
deal of promise for the future of environmental
protection and disease prevention. From an
article by Eric McHenry originally appearing
in the December 2007 issue of Columns, the
UW alumni magazine.
Researchers in the Stand Management and
Precision Forestry Cooperatives and the Rural
Technology Initiative are collaborating with
the U.S. Forest Service and CHH Fibre Gen on
a study that includes evaluating wood quality
by measuring the acoustic velocity of logs and
standing trees. The study is also investigating the
genetics of wood stiffness with cooperators at
Oregon State University. Professor Dave Briggs,
holder of the Corkery Family Endowed Chair, says
this will help find a way to monitor the natural
variability of stiffness among trees within a stand
and incorporate the results into tools that help
managers assess stands and stand treatments and
make better marketing decisions. Non-destructive
methods to test lumber and veneer for mechanical
properties are important because mills need
raw material with wood elements best suited
to the type of engineered wood products they
manufacture, and timber growers need to assess
tree properties to know which stands are best
suited for those markets. And silviculturists need
to monitor properties of stands as they develop
and respond to cultural practices. These precision
forestry technologies will provide an innovative
and efficient way to link properties from tree to
log to product.
A N N U A L R E P O RT T O C O N T R I B U T O R S
Corporate and Foundation Donors
A. H. Lundberg Associates, Inc.
EKA Chemicals, Inc.
Leon’s Landscaping
Pilchuck Tree Farm
Tetra Tech NUS, Inc.
West Coast Theatre Corporation
Acrowood Corporation
Euro Urban Forestry
Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood
Foundation
PJM I, LLC
The Campbell Group, LLC
West Fork Timber Company, LLC
Plum Creek Marketing, Inc.
The Canada Goose Program, Inc.
Western Polymer Corporation
Plum Creek Timber Company
The Harris Group, Inc.
Weyerhaeuser Company
Andritz, Inc.
Flotsam and Jetsam Garden
Club
Lone Rock Timber Company
Longview Fibre Company
Ponderay Newsprint Company
Arboretum Foundation
Foliage Gardens
M & R Services Company
Port Blakely Tree Farms, L.P.
The Henry M. Jackson
Foundation
Weyerhaeuser Company
Foundation
Arcadia Gardening, Inc.
Forest Capital Partners, LLC
M.L. Gatewood Company
Wilson Associates
Bank of America Foundation
The Nature Conservancy
Women’s University Club
BE&K, Incorporated
FRM Consulting
McBride Construction
Resources, Inc.
Port Townsend Paper
Corporation
The HG Foundation
Forest Systems, Inc.
Potlatch Corporation
The Oeser Company
Woodland Forestry Consultants
Benjamin and Margaret Hall
Foundation
GDP Properties, Inc.
Microsoft Corporation
Processum
The Russell Family Foundation
Wyman Youth Trust
Georgia-Pacific Corporation
Mithum Associates
The Boeing Company
Gerrish H. Milliken Foundation
Professional Forestry Services,
Inc.
The Seattle Foundation
Murray Pacific Corporation
Boise Cascade Corporation
Myrtle DeFriel Arboretum Unit
#16
Pruning Specialist
Buckman Laboratories, Inc.
Green Diamond Resource
Company
Capstone Technology
Corporation
Hancock Natural Resource
Group, Inc.
National Audubon Society
Roberts Group, LLC
Roger A. West, D.M.D., P.S.
Cascade Land Conservancy
Hayes Nursery
National Council for Air and
Stream Improvement, Inc.
Cascade Timber Consulting, Inc.
Hi-Lites Garden Club
North Pacific Paper Corporation
Center for Plant Conservation
Howard Family Trust
CH2M Hill Foundation
Huntsman Corporation
North American Rock Garden
Society, PNW Chapter
CH2M Hill, Inc.
Ingraham High School
Clark County Farm Forestry
Association
J. H. Kelly, LLC
Albany International Corporation Family Forest Foundation
All About Adventure
Northwest Arborvitae, Inc.
Northwest Horticultural Society
NW Hydraulic Consultants, Inc.
Columbia River Carbonates
Jim Brown Consulting Forestry,
LLC
Conservation Northwest
Johnson Controls Foundation
Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc.
Consortium for Research on
Renewable Industrial Materials
Kemira Chemicals, Inc.
Olympic Resource Management
CP, LLC
Donald E. Elliott, P.S., Inc.
Kimberly-Clark Foundation, Inc.
Dunbabin Design
Kovasin Consulting Oy
Eaton Corporation
Lanoga Corporation
Kenneth A. McKay, LLC
Northwest Perennial Alliance
Puget Sound Energy
Seattle Garden Club
Sidcup, Inc.
The Trust for Public Land
The Wollenberg Foundation
TimberWest Forest Corporation
Tobian J. Oppenheim Trust
Univar USA, Inc.
URS Corporation
Visions in Wood
Siemens Energy & Automation,
Inc.
Voith Paper
Silvicultural Engineering
Washington Contract Loggers
Asssociation, Inc.
Simpson Fund
Simpson Investment Company
Washington State Federation
of Garden Clubs
Skylark, Inc.
Wabash Farms
Smart Destinations, Inc.
Washington Alder, LLC
Solvay Polymers, Inc.
Washington Forest Protection
Association
PacifiCorp
Stillwater Sciences
Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey
Miller Charitable Foundation
Sue Moss Garden Design
Taylor Associates, Inc.
Washington Pulp and Paper
Foundation
Terry Ann Norberg, LMP, Inc.
Sustaining our Northwest world and beyond
The beauty and diversity of our Pacific Northwest forests, landscapes, and gardens are integral parts of our lives. Our forests
have long been cherished — both for their beauty and recreational opportunities and for their economic value in sustaining
forest resource industries and communities. Our urban landscapes and gardens educate, inspire, and engage us. But as the
region grows more populated, urbanization and its impacts present an increasing challenge for managing these landscapes.
Discovering ways to maintain healthy and beautiful urban environments, to preserve and restore habitats for native plant
and wildlife populations, to keep rural lands in forestry, and to ensure stewardship of our forest and urban environments are
just some of the ways our faculty and students help sustain our Northwest world and beyond.
UW Botanic Gardens — Sustaining the Human Spirit through Plants
The UW Botanic Gardens comprises more than 320
acres of gardens and woodlands, including one of
the oldest arboretums west of the Mississippi, one
of the West Coast’s largest horticulture centers
and libraries, and a natural area bordering Lake
Washington. With a mission to “sustain managed
to natural ecosystems and the human spirit
through plant research, display, and education,”
the gardens serve the public, students and faculty,
naturalists, gardeners, and nursery and landscape
professionals. Private support has long been the
lifeblood of its programs and services and two gifts
last year illustrate this enduring generosity. The
UW Botanic Gardens’ education program got a
major boost when longtime Arboretum supporter
Nancy Davidson Short pledged a gift of $300,000
in her will. This gift will create an endowment for
the youth education program, and stems from her
love for the Arboretum and for children, and her
particular desire that low-income children have
access to UW Botanic Gardens elementary school
programs, long supported by the Arboretum
Foundation. In another gift, Charlotte, John, and
Sally Behnke provided generous support to provide
and maintain four benches within the grounds of
the Union Bay Gardens, so that visitors can rest and
contemplate the beauty of the gardens.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Co l l e g e o f Fo r e s t R e s o u r c e s
Planned Giving
COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES AT A GLANCE 2006 – 2007
Grateful thanks are extended to the following donors who have made planned
gifts to the College. Planned gifts include future gifts provided under a will, retirement plan, or similar arrangement, as well as irrevocable gifts, which pay lifetime
incomes to a donor or named beneficiary, with the remaining assets directed to
the College in the future.
Anonymous
Milton Gashck
STUDENTS
Undergraduates AUT 2006
MAJORS
FEMALE
181
64
ETHNIC MINORITY
39
144
74
15
30
30 MS, 1 MEH, 4 MFR, 9 PhD
138
54
32
113
RESEARCH
TEACHING
TOTALS
2
36
38
Bruce and Susan Asplund
Ben and Dorie Harrison
Nancy Davidson Short
Gordon and Irene Bergum
Daniel Hinkley and
Robert Jones
Orin and Althea Soest
Associate Professors
1
5
6
Russell and Beatrice Stensrud
Assistant Professors
0
8
8
Mary Ellen and
W. Richard Denman
Morten Lauridsen, Jr.
Allan Treuer
Totals
3
49
52
Michael and Carol Lazara
Paul and Frances Vance
Richard and Rita Dinger
Tom and Cathy Mentele
DEVELOPMENT (FY 2007)
John Wott
Thomas Friberg
Ralph Oldroyd
Individual Contributions:
1,521,721
Corporate/Foundation Contributions:
Total
Jo Ann Fray
Carey Miller
Gordon and Irene Bergum
William and Frances Murdock
James and Dorothy Bethel
Thomas Friberg and
Shannon Johnson
John and Ann Bethel
Richard and Rhonda Getty
Marg Stenzel
Leland Carlisle
Ardis Grunow
Lily and Bobby Takatsuka
George Corkery
Ben and Dorie Harrison
Allan Treuer
Jack and Vada May Corkery
William Hatheway
Gary and Karla Waterman
Paul and Deborah Cressman, Jr.
Thomas and Arline Hinckley
John Wott
Paul Cressman and Lee Kraft
Otis Hyde
Mary Ellen and
W. Richard Denman
Carol Isaacson
Alice Eastman
Morten Lauridsen, Jr.
James Ellis
Michael and Carol Lazara
Jane Erkenbeck
Ruby McLachlan
Orin and Althea Soest
69 BS
325
FACULTY
Bruce and Bonnie Bare
2
Totals
Gale Schwarb
Dean’s Club Lifetime Members
DEGREES AWARDED
Graduate Students AUT 2006
Professors
Elroy and Marcelline Bohlin
INTERNATIONAL
407,337
Number of Endowed Funds: 77
Value of Endowed Funds: $28,807,616
$1,929,058
RESEARCH EXPENDITURES (FY 2007):
$8,453,748
COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES ADMINISTRATION
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL OR WRITE:
B. Bruce Bare
Gordon Bradley
DEAN
FACULTY CHAIR
Robert Edmonds
Clare Ryan
ASSOCIATE DEAN
FACULTY VICE CHAIR
Tom Mentele
Director of Development and Alumni Relations
107B Anderson, Box 352100
Seattle, WA 98195-2100
206.543.9505
email tmentele@u.washington.edu
Stephen West
ASSOCIATE DEAN
Visit the College of Forest Resources website at
http://www.cfr.washington.edu.
We have made every effort to be thorough and accurate in our fiscal year 2006-2007 donor listing.
We appreciate the opportunity to update addresses and apologize for any errors or omissions.
Please use the enclosed self-addressed envelope for corrections.
Kari Kovasin
PHOTO CREDITS
Kirsten Atik, Arthur Grossett, Dave Hogan, Mary Levin.
www.cfr.washington.edu
Firecrown Hummingbird
Preserving endangered species is a big job with
big questions. Can we save them all? Should we
even try? Wildlife science PhD student Erin Hagen
is trying to help just one: the Juan Fernández
firecrown, a charismatic hummingbird that lives
only on Robinson Crusoe Island, 400 miles off
the coast of Chile. The firecrowns’ numbers have
declined dramatically in recent decades and are
now numbered in the low hundreds. Hagen is
working with the Chilean government to learn
more about the bird’s dramatic decline and to
develop conservation plans. Findings so far suggest
that causes include predation by introduced
mammals, loss of habitat, and competition with a
co-occurring species, the green-backed firecrown,
which arrived from continental Chile in the late
19th century. Hagen’s work on the island reflects
her interest in invasive species roles’ in native
ecosystems, island ecology and conservation, and
the development of community environmental
stewardship. She says “Although my focus is now
on this tiny island in the middle of the Pacific that
most people have never heard of, its conservation
challenges are mirrored worldwide.” Hagen has
received the Byron and Alice Lockwood Endowed
Fellowship, and this year she was awarded the UW’s
Huckabay Teaching Fellowship, awarded to nine
graduate students from across the UW each year.
Wind River Canopy Crane
The Wind River Canopy crane, set in southwest
Washington’s Wind River Experimental Forest, is
helping answer questions about forests and their
ability to counteract global warming. The crane,
cooperatively managed by the College and the USDA
Forest Service, is the largest in the world dedicated to
forestry research, and the only one in North America.
Using the crane, scientists have shown that old
forests continue to grow and act as a sink for carbon
dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, and that old forests
are storehouses for vast amounts of carbon that
would take decades for new forests to accumulate.
A recent mystery under investigation is why
Douglas-fir trees that would normally have three
cones per branch, this year have thirty or more.
It may be global warming or it may be a natural
cycle. It’s all part of an effort to understand what
climate change, both natural and man-made, will
mean for the Northwest’s iconic forests. Without
understanding how trees respond to a changing
climate, evaluating programs claiming to offset
carbon emissions by planting trees or protecting
forests is difficult. Existing data gaps could be
filled if federal funding comes through for the
National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON),
a nationwide network of ecological monitoring
stations; the Wind River crane is on the shortlist to
be included in the network. College faculty working
on projects at Wind River include Professors Jerry
Franklin, David Ford, holder of the Rachel A. Woods
Professorship, and Tom Hinckley, holder of the
David R. M. Scott Professorship.