Educational Programs
2007-2008 Woodland Workshop Series - Click here to see the full schedule.
November 2007 - April 2008. A variety of practical classes to help you manage your family forestlands. Join us for any or all of these free classes to enhance your forest management knowledge and skills.
Tree School Umpqua, Thursday, June 19, 2008
Tree School is coming back to Douglas County!
Location: Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, Oregon
This annual summer event in SW Oregon is a one-day mini-college for family forestland owners, foresters, loggers, arborists, teachers and the public. Classes typically include vegetation management and reforestration, riparian planting and silviculture, insects and diseases of conifers and hardwoods, thinning, small scale logging, wildfire, hydrogeology and water regulations, soils, forest protection rules, tree identification, Christmas tree management, certification and sustainability, and cruising, falling, bucking, and scaling timber. Watch for details.
Douglas County School Forestry Tour, Tuesday, May 13 to Friday, May 16, 2008 (9 a.m. to 2 p.m.)
This Tour has been held annually for more than 40 years at the Douglas County Glide Educational Forest. It is an outdoor educational program for Douglas County fifth-grade students. Students spend a day in the woods learning about archaeology, fisheries, fire management, forest management, forest products, tree identification and wildlife. Volunteer instructors from natural resource agencies, private industry, and non-profit organizations make the event possible by donating their time and sharing their expertise with the students.
Basic Forestry Short Course
An integrated series of classes covering tree biology and ecology, silviculture, reforestation, forest protection, mapping and measurements, timber marketing, harvesting, forest business management, watershed systems, and wildlife. Please contact John Punches if you're interested in this series (E-mail: john.punches@oregonstate.edu )
Resource Management Planning Course
A well-written management plan can be extremely valuable! Contact us to find out about our next step-by-step planning series. This is an advanced course; we recommend you complete the Basic Forestry Short Course first. For more information, phone John Punches at 541-672-4461 or 1-800-883-7568, or e-mail: john.punches@oregonstate.edu
Master Woodland Manager Volunteer Program
For more information, visit the statewide Master Woodland Manager website.
Interested in becoming a Master Woodland Manager in Douglas County? Call for details at 541-672-4461 (or 1-800-883-7568 in Douglas County).
Managing Stand Density Symposium Proceedings - March 16-17, 2005
Last Update: 03/26/2008
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