by Web Editor | Mar 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
A century-long study in the Oregon Cascades may cause scientists to revise the textbook on how forests grow and die, accumulate biomass and store carbon. In a new analysis of forest succession in three Douglas-fir stands in the Willamette National Forest, two Oregon...
by Web Editor | Jun 18, 2012 | News, News/PR
In Oregon, huge swaths of the Willamette National Forest, perhaps as much as 12,000 acres, has stands of trees less than 40 years old that have never been thinned. The firs are crowded together, making it hard for sunlight to reach them. Competition for resources has...