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Featured Resources
Trees and Shrubs Chart - Riparian Species for SW Oregon
Chart for the type, form, mature size, and tolerances to shade, drought, and flooding for Southern Oregon streamside trees and shrubs.
Managing Woodland Roads: A Field Guide
A full-color field guide to building and maintaining unpaved roads in woodland environments. Contains information on road shapes and surfaces, cross-drainage structures, stream crossings, wet-weather operations, and inspection and maintenance regimes. Discusses legal issues and contracts; culvert...Latest Resources
Tree School Clackamas teaches love for the land
Educational event draws hundreds from woodland community in Clackamas County and beyond.
Seeing Climate Change in Bugs and Salmon
There are many ways to measure climate change. In northeast Oregon, scientists are investigating aquatic insects and how land management around waterways could potentially help or hinder salmon, which spawn in the streams.
Latest News
NSF awards $1.8 million to OSU-Utah collaboration to estimate U.S. plant transpiration
Aug 29, 2018
With a $1.8 million from the National Science Foundation, scientists at Oregon State University and the University of Utah are teaming up to make initial estimates of U.S. plant transpiration.
To grasp water scarcity, OSU researchers probe links between human and natural systems
Oct 23, 2017
A big OSU-based modeling study captures the fine-level interactions between nature and people
Proper forest road construction helps keep streams healthy, according to study
Aug 3, 2017
Sediment being sent into streams is not biologically significant
