FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Growing your Forest, Wood Products, or Christmas Tree Business Extension Forestry Agent Glenn Ahrens, (Clackamas, Marion, and Hood River counties) explains the objectives and results of selective logging to sustain a multi-aged stand at Hopkins Demonstration Read More

FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES New Forestry Outreach Center Planned for Hopkins The Forestry Outreach Center will be a demonstration of the latest advanced wood technologies, including cross-laminated timber, mass plywood, glue laminated beams and energy efficiency in residential-scale construction. Every Read More

FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Education Outreach at Hopkins Demonstration Forest Hopkins delivered environmental education and forestry programing to well over 5000 visitors in 2018. Hopkins Demonstration Forest encompasses 140 acres of Douglas-fir and western redcedar forest, just eight miles south Read More

FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Teachers Become Students in the Woods Teacher in the Woods participants piled into rafts for a white-water learning adventure through an area recently affected by a wildfire. The Teacher in the Woods program, hosted by Hopkins Read More

FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Hopkins Demonstration Forest Hosts Future Natural Resource Leaders Over 200 students from 12 high schools around the state gathered at Hopkins Demonstration Forest in May for a two-day state convention focused on career opportunities in forestry Read More

FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Woodland Leaders Show the Way Loren and Sylvia Bowman and their Estacada Delph Creek Tree Farm were recognized with the Evergreen Award for their long devotion to the practice and promotion of tree farming. Some of Read More

FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Protecting and Sustaining Oregon Christmas Trees Chal Landgren, Extension Christmas Tree Specialist, is leading efforts on propagation and testing of new varieties of Christmas trees in Oregon. These include Nordmann, Turkish, and Trojan fir, native to Read More

FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Ensuring Healthy, Resilient Forest Trees and Ecosystems OSU Extension Forestry Agent, Glenn Ahrens looking for needle disease on Douglas-fir. Glenn serves as your local forest health specialist answering hundreds of sick tree calls each year. Forest Read More

FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Practical How-to Education and Inspiration at Tree School Clackamas Participants learn what to look for and how to use field guides to identify plants in “Tree & Shrub ID.” Every March since 1991, OSU Extension brings Read More

FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Providing In-Demand Education for Basic Woodland Skills Woodland owners learning how logs are scaled to measure wood volume and to evaluate quality for selling in the marketplace. With over 5,000 family forest owners taking care of Read More