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In addition to the academic Divisions, the College administers interdisciplinary research and education
centers and cooperatives in which faculty from across the College, as well as from other University
academic units, participate. Several of these centers are jointly administered with the College of
Ocean and Fishery Sciences.
Center for International Trade in Forest Products
Bruce Lippke, Director, 543-8684, http://www.cintrafor.org
Ivan Eastin, Associate Director, Rose Braden, Information Services, Rachel Carroll, Secretary Senior
Established in 1985 by the Washington State Legislature, the Center
for International Trade in Forest Products (CINTRAFOR) addresses
problems and opportunities in the import and export of forest
products. Efforts focus on designing public policies necessary for
fostering the expansion of forest-based international trade;
researching, developing, and disseminating relevant market and
technical information; supporting advanced degree programs for
training professionals in these areas; and developing public service
programs that deliver ideas and data to diverse audiences that range
from foreign delegations to K-12 classrooms. CINTRAFOR serves as
the academic partner to business, government, and industry
associations, providing market research and economic and policy
analyses to complement government’s export promotion activities
and industry’s marketing efforts. It conducts research projects,
sponsors conferences, distributes a research newsletter to 2,000
international users, sells and distributes technical reports, supports
graduate students, and provides short consultations. An Executive
Board, whose members represent small, medium, and large forest
products companies; state and federal agencies; as well as
educational institutions and industry organizations, works with the
Director in setting project priorities and strategies.
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Accomplishments in 1998-1999
Plans for 1999-2000
• Co-sponsored and published proceedings of
15th Annual Wood Marketing Conference
with Jay Gruenfeld and Associates
• Provided preliminary screen of market
opportunities and competitiveness issues
for Alaskan wood products
• Analyzed PNW export share losses
resulting from endangered species regulations and economic restructuring; characterized economic impacts of proposed
regulations to protect salmon habitat
• Analyzed newsprint buyer/seller relationships and their potential contribution to
price volatility
• Testified at International Trade Commission
hearings on linkage between trade and the
environment
• Completed cooperative study characterizing transitional impacts of climate change
on the global forest sector
• Published five working papers, released
three journal article reprints, and developed
six new fact sheets on research findings
• Characterized impact of the growing
wood scarcity in the southern U.S. on
global markets
• Surveyed exporters to determine successful
strategies for transferring 2x4 construction
technology to foreign markets
• Made 30+ presentations to professional,
business and public audiences
• Characterized changes in market
acceptance of wood substitution products
• Supported eight marketing and economics
graduate students
• Publish six CINTRAFOR Working
Papers of interest to constituents
• Review activities with key congressional
delegates and staff
• Complete three meaningful projects
with presentations or reports to
Private Forest Forum constituents
• Complete two CINTRAFOR newsletters
• Co-sponsor 16th Annual International
Wood Marketing Conference and 2nd
International Housing and Building
Materials Export Conference
• Make 20 presentations at conferences
to constituents and publics
• Develop four new CINTRAFOR Fact
Sheets for policymakers
• Review activities with key state
legislators/staff on WA State Natural
Resources and Economic Development
Committees
• Distribute 1,500 CINTRAFOR reports/
publications
• Get six industry and six public journal,
newsletter, and press accounts
• Support six marketing and economics
graduate students
• Raise $675,000 in grants, project funds,
and gifts for research
Center for Streamside Studies
Susan Bolton, Director, 685-7651, http://depts.washington.edu/ccssuw
Leslie Wall, Program Coordinator
The Center for Streamside Studies (CSS) was created in 1987 by a
unique partnership of state and federal agencies, native American
tribes, forest products organizations, and the University of
Washington under the auspices of the Colleges of Forest Resources
and Ocean and Fishery Sciences. The Center operates from the
premise that the riparian forest is the key area regulating the
ecological health of watersheds and promotes an interdisciplinary
approach to understanding the complexity of stream and river
ecosystems in both forested and urban areas. The integration of the
disciplines of forestry, fisheries, hydrology, geology, sociology,
economics, and engineering is essential to understanding and
sustaining these systems. CSS conducts research activities related to
the understanding of ecological and physical processes and their
relation to governmental regulations. Projects are solution-oriented,
focusing on biological, physical, and social aspects of management
issues. Cooperative projects are undertaken with state and federal
agencies, tribes, private industry, and national and international
research institutions, and involve faculty and students in the College
of Forest Resources and other University of Washington programs.
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Accomplishments in 1998-1999
• Sought advisory board input on setting CSS
goals and objectives
• Coordinated with Puget Sound Regional
Synthesis Model (PRISM) on ESA issues
• Evaluated and synthesized graduate theses
for management applications
Plans for 1999-2000
• Hosted 9th Annual CSS Review
• Presented weekly seminar series
• Completed Lummi Nation Riparian
Silviculture project
• Completed compilation of research on
Muck Creek senior project
• Co-sponsored EPA Watershed Management
• Reviewed Timber Fish Wildlife (TFW)
Workshop and the conference Ecosystem
watershed-scale monitoring protocols
Restoration: Turning the Tide
• Assisted College’s academic divisions with
course development
• Compiled bibliography of peer-reviewed
articles on riparian topics in the Pacific
Northwest
• Work with advisory board to develop
strategic plan
• Build and maintain ties with state and
federal agencies
• Continue Web page development
• Hold 10th annual CSS review
• Maintain and strengthen interdisciplinary
focus
• Sponsor Tuesday seminars in streamside
studies
• Assist College’s academic divisions with
course development
• Increase long-term funding
• Work with College Outreach Office to
fund a position to represent both
Outreach and CSS
• Work with UBC’s Institute for Resources
and the Environment (IRE) to add forestry
module component to IRE’s watershed
training Web course
• Co-sponsor a Large Woody Debris
conference and EPA Watershed Management conference; sponsor Pacific
Northwest Restoration conference
Center for Quantitative Science in Forestry, Fisheries, and Wildlife
B. Bruce Bare, Director, 685-0878 / 543-1191, http://depts.washington.edu/cqs
As an undergraduate interdisciplinary academic unit, the Center for
Quantitative Science in Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife (CQS) is
dedicated to providing high quality instruction in mathematical and
applied statistical methods for undergraduate students in the
biological sciences, renewable resources management, and
environmental studies. The Center offers a minor in Quantitative
Science that requires 26-30 credits of quantitative science
coursework. Established in 1968 with a Ford Foundation grant, CQS
is an interdisciplinary intercollege unit supported by the Office of
Undergraduate Education, the College of Ocean and Fishery
Science’s School of Fisheries, and the College of Forest Resources.
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Accomplishments in 1998-1999
• Offered nine separate classes, several with
multiple sections
Plans for 1999-2000
• Developed two new courses, an introduction to systems modeling and a third
quarter of the calculus for biologists series
• Design and provide undergraduate
students with a premier series of applied
statistics, mathematics, and modeling
courses tailored to the needs of specific
client units
• Hired a part-time lecturer to teach
introductory statistics course
• Select and retain high quality and dedicated
faculty to teach CQS courses
• Conducted successful move from Fisheries
Center to temporary quarters in the Old
Electrical Engineering Building
• In partnership with appropriate academic
units across the three UW campuses,
determine instructional needs and, where
appropriate, develop new courses and
distance learning mechanisms
• Supported 24.5 quarters of 50% FTE
graduate teaching assistants
• Design and develop a package of new selfhelp “refreshment aids” for undergraduate
students in need of special quantitative
methods assistance, including the use of
electronic and multi-media facilities where
appropriate
Center for Urban Horticulture
Clem Hamilton, Director, 685-2589, http://depts.washington.edu/urbhor
James Fiore, Nursery Worker, Fred Hoyt, Plant Technician, Rebecca Johnson, Facility Manager, Ray Larson, Assistant Facility Manager,
Laura Lipton, Public Information Manager, David Nickle, Research Technician, Barbara O’Neill, Administrative Assistant, Jean Robins, Program Coordinator,
Barbara Selemon, Plant Technician, Dave Stockdale, Education Coordinator, Fran Trinder, Fiscal Specialist, Brian Watson, Research Technician
Elisabeth C. Miller Library
Valerie Easton, Horticultural Librarian, 543-0415
Martha Ferguson, Library Technician, Brian Thompson, Technical Services Librarian
Washington Park Arboretum
John Wott, Director, 543-8602
Annemarie Bilotta, Gardener, Kirsten Bilodeau, Office Assistant, Julie Debarr, Education Coordinator, Josey Fast, Program Coordinator,
Randall Hitchin, Registrar/Collections Manager, Christina Pfeiffer, Horticulturalist/Grounds Supervisor, Dean Powell, Plant Technician,
John Schaefer, Gardener, Paul Smith, Gardener, Lou Stubecki, Field Horticulturist/Lead Gardener, David Zuckerman, Lead Gardener
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The Center for Urban Horticulture (CUH), founded in 1978, is
dedicated to research, teaching, and public service concerning the
selection, management, and role of plants and ecosystems in urban
landscapes. CUH’s programs and facilities serve faculty and staff
from across the College and from other University units. CUH has a
strong public service program, offering services through the
Continuing and Public Education program, the Elisabeth Miller
Horticultural Library (targeted primarily at public and professional
audiences), the Washington Park Arboretum, and conference
facilities for horticultural organizations. CUH fosters collaboration
with and among many regional and national agencies and
organizations that deal with managing the urban landscape. CUH
facilities include: the Douglas Research Conservatory; the Union
Bay Gardens, which features both woody and herbaceous plant
material displayed to demonstrate its use in small urban
landscapes; the Otis Douglas Hyde Hortorium with preserved
specimens for plant identification and taxonomic research;
research/demonstration gardens where plant materials are tested
for appropriateness for urban landscapes; the sixty-acre Union Bay
Natural Area, a reclaimed land fill site managed for native
vegetation and wildlife; and the two hundred-acre Washington Park
Arboretum (managed in collaboration with the City of Seattle),
which includes about 4,300 species and cultivars of woody plants
from throughout the world. The Elisabeth C. Miller Library has
holdings in horticultural science, landscape architecture and
design, botany, plant pathology and entomology, urban plant
management, the art and science of gardening, and plant taxonomy,
including flora of many countries.
Accomplishments in 1998-1999
• Completed interpretive signage in Union
Bay Natural Area
• Held successful CUH 15th anniversary
celebration
• Completed construction, planting, and
interpretive signage for Soest Garden
• Developed increased support for the
Miller Library annual operations and
endowment funds
• Developed collaborative internships with
Sealth Youth Garden Works, the U.S.
Forest Service, and Southern University’s
Urban Forestry Program
• Assisted College’s Ecosystem Sciences
Division in improvements to undergraduate curricula options and course offerings
• Developed Arboretum outreach efforts to
Seattle Public Schools
Plans for 1999-2000
• Continue restoration, trail improvements,
and volunteer service in Union Bay
Natural Area
• Revise significantly CUH’s professional
education outreach programs, including
publications
• Attract and foster UW-wide collaboration
on urban environmental issues, particularly
the three-campus restoration ecology
network
• For Washington Park Arboretum:
•Expand education and outreach programs,
particularly for K-12
•Improve database systems for record keeping
and collections mapping
•Improve general plant maintenance
•Continue work on Arboretum Master Plan,
including Environmental Impact Statement
process
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Olympic Natural Resources Center
John Calhoun, Director, 685-9744, http://www.onrc.washington edu
Teresa Alcock, GIS Technician, Kathy Brick, Administrative Assistant, Robert Coon, Facility Manager/Education Program Coordinator,
Barbara Harrsion, Program Coordinator, Deric Kettel, Maintenance Mechanic, June Powers, Secretary Senior, Miranda Wecker, Marine Program Manager
The Olympic Natural Resources Center (ONRC) was created to
foster and support the research and education necessary to provide
sound scientific information on which to base ecologically
sustainable forest and marine industries. Pragmatic solutions are
sought through innovative management methods, research, and
education, which successfully integrate environmental and
economic interests. Founded in 1989 by the Washington State
legislature, ONRC is operated jointly by the College of Forest
Resources and the College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences.
The Center’s facilities at Forks on the Olympic Peninsula include
labs, classrooms, and meeting and conference facilities.
Accomplishments in 1998-1999
Plans for 1999-2000
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• Published results of 1997 Forest Management Practitoner’s Workshop: “Reverse
Technology Transfer: Obtaining Feedback
for Managers,” in Western Journal of
Applied Forestry
• Initiated annual ONRC Science Conference
with “Putting Olympic Peninsula on the
Map,” introducing the Olympic Clearinghouse and bringing together GIS professionals from around the state
• Provided major breakthrough in discovery
and evaluation of biocontrol agent for
Spartina in Willapa Bay; secured increased
funding to continue project
• Expanded “Summer Science Institutes” to
10 one-week sessions, providing instruction
to K-12 teachers in math, science, and
language arts for curriculum development
to meet State Essential Learning Requirements
• Ran trials in remote learning infrastructure, delivering two courses from
the College of Forest Resource to
students at ONRC
• Contracted with Keystone Center of
Colorado to facilitate a scientific panel
review of the feasibility of developing
cause and effect relationship between
conservation practices and salmon
abundance (validation monitoring)
• Developed grant writing program,
obtaining major support for education
programs at ONRC
• Complete enhancements of GIS metadata
clearinghouse
• Initiate WA Department of Natural Resources/ONRC joint research program for
Olympic Experimental State Forest
• Add Educational Outreach Specialist to staff
to enhance regional education reform,
especially in tribal schools
• Build 20-station computer teaching lab and
begin instruction program
• Develop “Olympic Natural Resources
Institute” to bring professional continuing
education to resource professionals
• Complete review of scientific feasibility of
validation monitoring of salmon conservation
practices in the Northwest
Stand Management Cooperative
Dave Briggs, Director, 543-1581, http://www.cfr.washington.edu/smc
Randol Collier, Database Manager/Analyst, Robert Gonyea, Manager, Bert Hasselberg, Forest Technician,
John Haukaas, Database Specialist, Megan O’Shea, Program Coordinator
The Stand Management Cooperative (SMC), formed in 1985,
provides a continuing source of information linking silviculture,
wood quality, and product value and develops techniques and
provides information for use in planning and evaluating stand
management strategies. In 1991, the Regional Forest Nutrition
Research Program (RFNRP) merged into the SMC. The SMC
maintains field installations across western Oregon and
Washington and southwestern British Columbia. Installations
include the RFNRP tests, new plantings at prescribed spacings,
young developing stands, and recently harvested RFNRP plots
that have been replanted to study carryover effects of fertilization
regimes. Installations are designed with sufficient size and
Plans for 1999-2000
Accomplishments in 1998-1999
• Received nearly $590,000 in membership
contributions from 23 organizations with
institutional members donating additional
$125,000 in-kind support
• Secured external grants totaling
$250,000 “leveraged” funding from
various organizations
• Named Western Regional Site of the U.S.
Department of Energy’s Carbon Sequestration Center
• Held Spring and Fall SMC Policy Committee Meetings
• Sponsored field trip to educate WA
Department of Natural Resouces
foresters on types and design of SMC
installations
• Held joint meeting with Tree Improvement
Cooperative and forestry extension
specialists to explore methods for
reaching small non-industrial private
landowners
• Supported eight graduate students and
sponsored distinguished visiting scholars
• Made presentations at 3rd Workshop
Drs. Joerg Prietzel, University of Munich, and IUFRO Working Party, the Washington
Gero Becker, University of Freiburg
Farm Forestry Association Fall Forestry
Educational Seminar, and the Soil Science
• Published quarterly newsletter and annual
Society of America Annual Meeting
report
• Published fact sheets: “Douglas-Fir pitch
moth” and “Epicormic branching following
pruning of Douglas-Fir”; completed three
professional journal articles
replication to allow many treatment experiments including
thinning, pruning, and fertilization and provide for sampling for
wood quality studies. An online database supports analyses of the
effect of treatments and treatment regimes on growth and yield,
wood quality, carbon sequestration, and understory vegetation.
Research results provide managers with a basis for predicting
how stand development characteristics are affected by site,
geographic province, and silvicultural treatments and how these
characteristics develop and change over time. The database
supports researchers who are creating stand characteristic
models and serves as a benchmarking tool to verify a variety of
models developed by other organizations.
• Update field procedures manual
• Prepare analyses and publications on
response of growth to treatments on field
research installations, including “Growth
Response to Pruning” and “Effect of Spacing
on Early Stand Growth”
• Explore collaboratation with Precision
Forestry Cooperative and Rural Technology
Initiative
• Increase external funding for carbon
sequestration research associated with SMC
installations
• Increase funding to support SMC vegetation
surveys and evaluation of biodiversity
indices as affected by treatments
• Continue expanding field installation
network in underrepresented species and
mixes, primarily hemlock and hemlock/
Douglas-Fir mixtures
• Improve mechanisms for translating and
delivering SMC research results to large
and small private forestland owners
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Continuing Education and Outreach Programs
Kelley M. Duffield, Director of Outreach, 543-0867, http://www.cfr.washington.edu/Outreach/outreach.html
Jennifer Blecha, Continuing Education Program Coordinator, Donna Chapman, Pack Forest Environmental Education Coordinator, Bob Coon, ONRC Facility Manager and Education Program
Coordinator, Julie DeBarr, Washington Park Arboretum Education Coordinator, Don Hanley, Washington State University Extension Forester, Terri McCauley, Pack Forest Conference Coordinator, Ellen
McKinley, Project Assignment, Arbor Day Fair, Jean Robins, Center for Urban Horticulture Program Coordinator, Dave Stockdale, Center for Urban Horticulture Education Coordinator
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Continuing education and outreach has historically played a
significant role in the overall College mission. The College of Forest
Resources, Washington State University Department of Natural
Resource Sciences, and Oregon State University College of Forestry
develop and distribute a joint Continuing Education Calendar of
Events. Offerings include credit and non-credit courses, symposia,
workshops, and conferences to a broad array of natural resource
professionals. Recognizing that non-industrial private forest
landowners are another important client group, the College, along
with Washington State University, formed the Private Forests Forum
to determine how the State of Washington’s two 4-year institutions
can better meet the needs of all private forest landowners. The
College’s interdisciplinary centers also provide educational
opportunities for both professionals and the public. The Center for
Urban Horticulture (CUH) serves three client categories with:
ProHort Seminars for urban horticulture, urban forestry, and urban
ecology professionals; courses, symposia, and seminars on topics at
an academic level of interest to urban horticulture professionals and
amateur enthusiasts; and lectures, tours, and other special events of
interest to amateur horticulturists and home gardeners. The
College’s outreach efforts expanded significantly during fiscal year
1999. The newly created position of Director of Outreach was filled
and two outreach steering committees were formed to provide
feedback from internal cooperators and external client groups. The
Director of Outreach focused on working with various distribution
points (e.g., interdisciplinary centers, Pack Forest) enabling them
to better harness the expertise within their programs and meet their
stated outreach goals. Additional personnel have strengthened and
added depth to the outreach efforts at Pack Forest, the Center for
Urban Horticulture (CUH) and the Olympic Natural Resources
Center (ONRC).
Accomplishments in 1998-1999
• Conducted Natural Resources Institute
Modules 1 and 4
• Hosted the 1998 Council on Forest
Engineering annual meeting and field tour
• Offered Introduction to GIS for Natural
Resources Professionals workshop
• Co-hosted, with UW English as a Second
Language Program, Forest Ecology for
International Students practicum
• Developed Pack Forest environmental
education programs for K-12 students and
adult learners
• Hosted 15th Gruenfeld Conference on
International Forest Product Marketing.
• Held Center for Streamside Studies 1999
annual review of research
• Conducted 1999 Forest Stand Dynamics
Course
• Hosted 1999 Northwest Scientific
Association Annual Meeting at UW
Tacoma and Washington State History
Museum
• Facilitated two academic-credit courses at
ONRC utilizing distance learning
technology
Plans for 1999-2000
• Hosted 1999 Arctic Workshop
• Hosted 1999 Arbor Day Fair with 1700 1st through 3rd graders
• Offered numerous outreach programs for
professionals and the public through the
Center for Urban Horticulture
• Offered Summer Institutes at ONRC for
science and language teachers
• Hosted the 1999 American Society of
Mammalogists Annual Meeting
• Established the Outreach Advisory
Committee and Visiting Committee Task
Team on Outreach
• Instituted a secure credit card payment
procedure for use by CE and publications
sales within the College
• Develop certificate program for studies
through ONRC
• Work with the Private Forests Forum to
host the Summit 2000 conference
• Establish additional international programs
in conjunction with the English as a
Second Language Program
• Develop the College’s corporate identity
with a series of collateral printed pieces
and Web pages as part of an integrated
marketing plan
• Work on a series of outreach products
related to the Rural Technology Initiative
• Establish the College’s Speaker’s Bureau
• Strengthen the College’s position on the
Continuing Education Coordinating
Committee and assume responsibility for
the Natural Resources Institute
administration
• Establish a CFR relationship with Heritage
College and other 2-year institutions in
Washington State through the UW
Natural Resources Outreach committee
• To the degree possible, direct all campusbased CFR CE activities to Center for
Urban Horticulture
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C. L. Pack Experimental Forest
Stan Humann, Manager, 685-4485 XT 211/543-2817, http://www.cfr.washington.edu/centers/pack
Jerry Block, Woods Utility Worker, Susan Bowles, Lead Custodian, Donna Chapman, Information Specialist, Mid Christian, Lead Cook, Sandra Domici, Custodian,
Duane Emmons, Operations Coordinator, Dale Halverson, Maintenance Mechanic, Chris Hayden, Woods Utility Lead, Terri McCauley, Conference Coordinator,
Mason McKinley, Staff Forester, Debi Pitzl, Fiscal Technician, Janice Sipes, Office Assistant, Branden Sirguy, Forest Operations Coordinator, Henry Smith, Building/Grounds Supervisor
C. L. Pack Experimental Forest is managed by the College of Forest
Resources for forestry objectives. Located in Pierce County near
Eatonville, WA and comprising 4,380 acres, Pack Forest is primarily
self-sustaining. A spectrum of natural and managed timber stands
aged zero to 200 years, diverse site classes, and glacial, residual,
and lacustrial soils provide a focal point for on-the-ground academic
work in forest management, resource science, and forest
engineering, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Facilities include living quarters for more than 80 persons,
classrooms, greenhouse-nursery complex, shops, and offices.
Pack Forest offers full-time residential spring academic quarters
for juniors and seniors, facilities for short courses and conferences,
and a base for large field-oriented research programs. An extensive
public outreach coordinates the display of research and forest
management and operational demonstrations.
Accomplishments in 1998-1999
Plans for 1999-2000
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• Completed purchase of 120-acre holding
• Constructed new interpretive trail and
improved existing trail
• Trained 11 public schoolteachers in use
of the Project Learning Tree education
guide “Educator’s Guide to the Managed
Forest,” developed at Pack Forest;
increased the number of students
completing the guide by 300, to a total of
525
• Conducted three public “Walks in the
Woods”
• Increased off-site public contacts (fairs,
exhibits, and field days)
• Completed initial design and format of
educational CD ROM on managed
forests in the Nisqually Basin
• Completed comprehensive report on
wildlife resources and research at Pack
Forest
• Completed first year of hunter/hiker
observations and general wildlife
surveys
• Complete initial Landscape Management
System data set for Pack Forest
• Complete initial integration of GIS and
Pack Forest inventory for student use
• Complete updating road, trail, and
property boundary mapping through use
of GPS
• Promote use of “Educator’s Guide to the
Managed Forest” in the Tacoma public
schools
• Expand public “Walks in the Woods” to
one per week during summer and one
per quarter the rest of the year
• Develop new Pack Forest curriculum for
grades K-6 and 7-12
• Expand use of volunteer assistance with
educational offerings
• Refurbish biosolids demonstration area
The College cooperates with federal agencies, including the USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station
and the US Geological Survey. In some cases, federal personnel are housed at the College and have affiliate
or joint appointments as College faculty or staff.
Cooperative for Forest-Systems Engineering
Susan Bolton, Jim Fridley, and Peter Schiess, College of Forest Resources Liaisons, http://forsys.cfr.washington.edu
Robert McGaughey and Steve Reutebuch, Affiliate Instructors and USDA Forest Service Liaisons, 543-4710
The Cooperative for Forest-Systems Engineering (FORSYS) was
established in 1990 as a cooperative research unit between the USDA
Forest Service, PNW Research Station, and the College of Forest
Resources. The mission of FORSYS is to solve difficult forest management problems through the use of new technologies and engi-
neering design and analysis procedures. FORSYS serves as a focal
point for a wide range of collaborative forest-systems engineering
research efforts that involve other colleges at the UW, other western
universities, state agencies, and other Forest Service units.
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USGS Cascadia Field Station
David L. Peterson, Professor, Field Station Leader and Director of Biology Program, 543-1587/http://www.cfr.washington.edu/usgs/cascadia/
Darryll R. Johnson, Research Sociologist and Director of Social Science Program, 685-7404
Cascadia Field Station (CFS) scientists study the biological and
social aspects of resource management issues in national parks and
other protected areas on public lands throughout the Northwest and
beyond. The CFS directs several long-term studies and assists
federal agencies with scientific issues of immediate concern to
resource management. Many research efforts involve cooperation
with other agencies and institutions, such as the National Park
Service and USDA Forest Service. The two major program areas of
the field station—biology and social science—address various
aspects of natural and human resource issues that occur in national
parks and other public lands.